Justin Baldoni publishes explosive new website telling 'his side' of Blake Lively lawsuit
Justin Baldoni publishes explosive new website telling 'his side' of Blake Lively lawsuit
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Justin Baldoni launched his own website dedicated to defending himself against Blake Lively's sexual harassment allegations. In an attempt to share his side of the story, the actor, 41, who is seeking to offer transparency to the public amid his legal battle, shared a website containing his amended complaint and a timeline of relevant events related to the case. The decision to publish the site on Saturday comes after the star amended his $400 million suit accusing Lively of giving The New York Times advance access to her sexual harassment complaint.
Baldoni attorney, Bryan Freedman, told DailyMail.com that Baldoni's amended his lawsuit due 'to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light.'. 'This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to purely egotistical reasons Ms. Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications,' Freedman continued.
He concluded: 'The ongoing public interest in this case online has ironically shed light on the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and how heavily Ms. Lively and her representatives were not only deeply involved in the attempted take down and smear campaign of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it.'. Justin Baldoni launched his own website dedicated to defending himself against Blake Lively 's sexual harassment allegations; seen on December 04, 2024.
Earlier this month, in a filing DailyMail.com, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, it was reported that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, were doubling down on their efforts to gag Baldoni and his lawyers. In a letter to the judge presiding over the case on Monday, the couple's attorney urgently requested a conference to highlight their 'growing concerns' over what they describe as Freedman's alleged 'extrajudicial misconduct'.
The filing cites Freedman's recent media appearances as well as a report of a new website being created by Baldoni's team to 'strategically release selected documents and communications' between the two feuding co-stars. The report, published by the Daily Mail last week, revealed Baldoni's lawyers are in the process of building a website on the case that will allow anyone to see numerous snippets of unedited footage from the film, including anything which 'speaks to' Lively's original complaint about the actor.
Freedman has publicly warned: 'We have all the receipts – and more.'. But the couple's attorney Michael Gottlieb has claimed the website and Freedman's public comments are part of a campaign to 'influence proceedings and the public perception' of the case with 'inflammatory content'. 'He further has made it clear that his priority is to "torpedo Blake Lively's career for good" by, among other things, creating a website to release strategically selected documents and communications between Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni,' Gottlieb states in the letter.
'The planned website will release what Mr. Freedman self-servingly proclaims will be "full unedited WhatsApp, text and email exchanges between Lively and Baldoni," although neither the media nor public will have any way of knowing which communications Mr. Freedman has selectively omitted from disclosure, including communications that Mr. Freedman and his clients may have deleted.'. In an attempt to share his side of the story, the actor, 41, who is seeking to offer transparency to the public amid his legal battle, shared a website containing his amended complaint and a timeline of relevant events related to the case (Lively seen in 2021).
Gottlieb goes on to argue that the website will 'presumably not include' communications that Freedman and Baldoni have had with media sources, meaning it will be 'incomplete, biased, and prejudicial by design'. He also claims Freedman's 'efforts to spin' Lively's request for a gag order as an attempt to silence them out of fear, in a bid to 'impugn' her character. A source familiar with case claimed that the website will promote transparency in the case and denied it would contain selective material.
'There is nothing that will be selective on the website. The aim here is to do the exact opposite of what they did – to not be selective, to not cherry pick, and to not doctor text messages which they did when they gave them to the New York Times,' the source told DailyMail.com on Monday. Lively and Baldoni's feud first emerged in rumors of discord on the set of the domestic abuse drama that heated up during the promotional campaign that accompanied its release last August.
According to Baldoni, the bitterness between the film's two stars was so bad he and his family were banished to a cinema basement for the premiere on Lively's orders. The decision to publish the site on Saturday comes after the star amended his $400 million suit accusing Lively of giving The New York Times advance access to her sexual harassment complaint; Baldoni and Lively pictured on set last year.