Justin Baldoni Launches Website Detailing Legal Battle With Blake Lively
Baldoni wanted to make legal documents accessible to fans.
Justin Baldoni has released a website to defend himself against Blake’s Lively’s sexual harassment allegations.
TMZ reports that Baldoni released this website that includes links to his amended complaint against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, plus a timeline of all of events that are relevant to the case.
Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman reportedly said that the website will chronically trace the facts from the case from beginning to end, starting with Baldoni acquiring the rights to the film It Starts With Us. It also features Baldoni and Lively’s email and text messages.
Baldoni’s reason for sharing the site is reportedly to refute Lively's claims and make the legal documents accessible to fans.
Earlier this month, Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds. The countersuit lists charges including civil extortion, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.
In a statement, Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman claimed that his client has an "overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni and his team."
The lawyer also said that the evidence that Lively provided was “grossly edited” and “unsubstantiated.”
"It is clear based on our own all-out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real-time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret," Freedman said.
Days after filing his lawsuit, Baldoni released raw video from It Ends With Us that he believed shoots down her claims of sexual harassment. In the footage, Lively comments on the size of Baldoni’s nose, which he mentioned in his lawsuit.
Lively and Reynolds recently filed a letter asking the court to issue a protective order to stop Freedman and the rest of Baldoni’s lawyers from engaging in “improper conduct,” including an alleged "harassing and retaliatory media campaign.”
The letter specifically mentions the release of unedited footage from the film that Lively’s team says "corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described" in the initial allegations of sexual harassment that she revealed in December.
Lively said in a statement after filing the lawsuit, "I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.”
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