Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds told a federal judge that they will move to dismiss her 'It Ends With Us' costar Justin Baldoni's defamation lawsuit.
, the couple’s lawyers filed the notice Thursday in compliance with Judge Lewis Liman’s order, which lays out how the federal case will proceed., accusing her of trying to “destroy” him with false allegations of sexual misconduct. The complaint, filed in New York’s Southern District, accuses Lively, Reynolds, publicist Leslie Sloane, and her company, Vision PR, of defamation, extortion, and invasion of privacy.
His suit arrived after Lively filed a precursor complaint with the California Civil Rights Department and accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her on set and against her. Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, denied the allegations at the time and claimed that the actress’ filing was an attempt to “fix her negative reputation.” Lively brought an
A pretrial conference was scheduled on Feb. 3 and is set to focus on attorney conduct and pretrial publicity. In a letter, lawyers for Lively and Reynolds previously accused Freedman and Wayfarer of making prejudicial comments to the media and trying to taint the jury pool with a website including what they called “strategically selected documents and communications” between Lively and Baldoni.
“All these motions to dismiss are just yet another attempt by Ms. Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloan to hide and delay the discovery of the hundreds of pages of true facts and well-documented information that we remain dedicated to providing publicly, with full transparency,” Freedman toldin response to the new filing. “We expect such motions to be denied and, in the meantime, stand ready to oppose each and every one of them.
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