Actress Blake Lively has filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit against Ryan Reynolds, director Michael Baldoni, and The New York Times, alleging a coordinated effort to damage her reputation. The suit claims that Lively’s complaint against Baldoni was filed only after months of feeding falsehoods to the New York Times, and that the newspaper may have been working on the story as early as October. Lively also alleges that Reynolds portrayed a character in the film as a “vicious caricature of a ‘woke’ feminist” in an apparent attempt to mock Baldoni and Lively.
A new amended complaint filed by Blake Lively against Ryan Reynolds and his production company, Wayfarer Studios , adds several explosive allegations against Ryan Reynolds , director Michael Baldoni , and The New York Times , claiming a deliberate and coordinated campaign to damage Lively's reputation. Among the new allegations, it claims that Lively’s complaint against Baldoni was filed only after Lively and her team “spent months feeding falsehoods to the New York Times.
” It alleges that the paper had access to Lively’s complaint, which was published on Dec. 21. The report accused Baldoni and his publicists of trying to hurt Lively’s reputation in an apparent retaliation for Lively making sexual harassment complaints on the film’s set. Lively filed a lawsuit for defamation, alleging that they “’cherry picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.” The amended suit claims that The New York Times may have been working on the story as early as Oct. 31. In addition, the suit claims that a companion video to the story was created on Dec. 12, nine days prior to the story’s publication. The suit alleges that the newspaper first reached out for comment from Baldoni’s team on the evening of Dec. 20, with a deadline of noon the next day. The story was posted at 10:11 a.m. on Dec. 21 and included a comment from Freedman. “Mr. Baldoni’s lawyers base their erroneous claim on postings by amateur internet sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are wrong. The sleuths have noted that a version of the Lively state complaint published by the New York Times carries the date ‘December 10’ even though the complaint wasn’t filed until more than a week later. The problem: that date is generated by Google software and is unrelated to the date when Lively filed her complaint,” the suit alleges. The suit further alleges that Reynolds portrayed Nicepool as a “vicious caricature of a ‘woke’ feminist before concluding the character’s arc with his violent shooting death at the hands of ‘Ladypool,’ a character voiced by Blake Lively,” adding that Nicepool was “intended to be a transparent and mocking portrayal of Reynolds’ warped perception of Baldoni.” The amended complaint, which seeks at least $400,000,000 in compensatory damages, comes two days before the first hearing on the federal lawsuits. The trial over Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, began 11 months ago.
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