The Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively legal battle continues to develop as Baldoni has launched a new website that covers some of the ongoing legal issues between the pair.
What is on the Justin Balldoni website?
The new website comes courtesy of Baldoni’s team, which includes PR boss Melissa Nathan and attorney Bryan Freedman. The site, simply titled “The Lawsuit Info,” includes links to two different PDF files, including Baldoni’s amended complaint against Lively as well as a timeline of what the team calls “relevant events” regarding the case.
Both files link to legal documents that were submitted by Baldoni’s team, with the relevant events file consisting of 168 pages of information detailing the beginning of the issues between Baldoni and Lively. The amended complaint PDF, on the other hand, is simply the team’s complaint that it filed in court earlier this year against both Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
Lively’s team has been bucking back against Freedman ever since videos of on-set activity on It Ends With Us were released by his lawyer, with Lively’s legal team arguing that Freedman has been trying to sway public opinion.
Lively’s complaint alleges that Baldoni created a hostile work environment
Baldoni’s lawsuit stems from a formal complaint that Lively made against Baldoni in December. In it, she states that things got so bad during the filming of It Ends With Us that an all-hands-on-deck meeting was called in response to her claims of a hostile work environment. During the meeting, Lively asked that Baldoni stop showing her nude videos or images of women, that he stop mentioning his pornography addiction to her, that Baldoni stops discussing sexual experiences in front of her, and that he also stop mentioning Lively’s weight.
The complaint also claims that an agreement was made between production company Wayfarer Studios and the cast, in which the promotion of the movie would focus “more on [Lively’s character’s] strength and resilience as opposed to describing the film as a story about domestic violence.” However, Lively claims that Baldoni would renege on that and instead spoke in interviews about the film’s serious story.
Lively also claimed that Baldoni and his PR manager, Melissa Nathan, discussed ways to start a social media campaign to harm her reputation. The filing by Lively includes 22 pages of texts between Baldoni’s publicist and Nathan, in which they discuss wanting to have Lively “buried.”
