Actress Blake Lively filed a lawsuit against director Justin Baldoni, his production company, and associates, alleging sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, and a smear campaign. Lively claims Baldoni engaged in unwanted physical contact, inappropriate conversations, and created an uncomfortable atmosphere on the set of their film. The lawsuit also alleges that Baldoni and his team orchestrated a campaign to damage Lively's reputation after she raised concerns about his behavior.
co-star and director Justin Baldoni , accusing him, his production company and partner, and several PR experts of mounting a smear campaign against her after she complained about misconduct on set. The filing comes months after aLively’s filing, a precursor to a lawsuit, casts him in a very different light.
Baldoni was concerned from the jump — one May text from him to Abel allegedly says, of the complaints Lively voiced during filming, “We should have a plan for IF she does the same when the movie comes out.” Closer to the film’s release, Lively, other cast members, andauthor Colleen Hoover reportedly told Sony they didn’t want to do any appearances with Baldoni.
It’s difficult to pinpoint what exactly came from Baldoni’s team and what was, in the words used in text messages shown in the suit, “amplified” and “boosted.” According to the, one brand-marketing consultant who did an analysis of Google’s search index in August suspected the media environment around Lively’s name was being manipulated and found that she had been the subject of a “targeted, multichannel online attack.
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