Blake Lively, the star of ‘It Ends With Us’ claims her co-star and the film's producers engaged in a covert PR war designed to ruin her reputation.
The 80-page administrative complaint, filed in California Civil Court on Friday and obtained by Vanity Fair, follows a filing made the same day by Lively's legal team with California's Civil Rights Department. Instead of requesting that state investigators look into the allegations, Lively requested an immediate right to sue. That right was granted, sources familiar with the case tell Vanity Fair.
As first reported by The New York Times, text messages and emails Lively’s team obtained via subpoena include messages between public relations, crisis communications, and media management experts that appear to detail a coordinated set of efforts to plant negative stories about Lively in the media and boost social media posts critical of the star. Following the implementation of the strategy, according to the complaint, one publicist wrote to another: “And socials are really really ramping up….
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