REVEALED: Explosive clue New York Times prepped Blake Lively's sexual harassment report before complaint was public
REVEALED: Explosive clue New York Times prepped Blake Lively's sexual harassment report before complaint was public
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The New York Times started prepping its bombshell report about how Blake Lively was sexually harassed by Justin Baldoni at least five days before her lawsuit was in the public domain, it was claimed today. A composite image of the It Ends with Us co-stars created for the article - 'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine - has a December 16, 2024 date embedded in its URL, DailyMail.com can reveal.
![[The URL for the image used in the NYT's bombshell report shows a December 16, 2024 date embedded in its URL, DailyMail.com can reveal]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/21/94612861-14335325-image-m-13_1738100213226.jpg)
That might suggest that Times staffers had advance knowledge of Lively's complaint and had a story ready for publication when she filed it with the California Civil Rights Department on December 20. The Times report was published on December 21. Any such coordination on the actress's part would undermine her central claim that it was Baldoni who was scheming with his media partners to trash her reputation, rather than the other way around.
![[The composite image of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni used in the NYT report]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/21/94613389-14335325-image-m-12_1738100203427.jpg)
It could also hand the dishy actor-director more ammunition against The Times after he sued the Gray Lady for $250million claiming its reporting was 'rife with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and omissions'. The astonishing data clue was first spotted by TikTok creator goojiepooj who noticed that the URL for the composite image reads '2024-12-16-lively-topper'. Several more photos are dated between December 18 and 20.
![[The astonishing data clue was first spotted by TikTok creator goojiepooj who noticed that the URL for the composite image reads '2024-12-16-lively-topper']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/21/94612859-14335325-image-a-7_1738099628122.jpg)
Justin Baldoni earlier this month launched a $250 million libel action against the New York Times - who was the first to report on Blake Lively's first complaint against her co-star on December 21. Lively and her Hollywood megastar husband Ryan Reynolds have asked the court to slap a protective order on Baldoni's lawyers to stop them making 'harassing and retaliatory' comments to the media.
![[Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman has claimed that text screenshots shared by the New York Times in Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni were presented without context]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/21/94109655-14335325-Baldoni_s_lawyer_Bryan_Freedman_lost_his_home_in_the_Palisades_f-a-8_1738099642297.jpg)
