Jed Wallace, a Texas-based crisis communications specialist, has filed a $7 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively. Wallace alleges that Lively falsely accused him of participating in a campaign to harm her reputation during her ongoing legal disputes with the film's director and co-star, Justin Baldoni.
FILE - Blake Lively appears at the screening for the film "It 'Ends With Us'" in London on Aug. 8, 2024.
Jed Wallace and his company, Street Relations, filed the $7 million lawsuit in federal court in Texas on Tuesday. It says he had nothing to do with any campaign to harm Lively's reputation as she alleged in a court filing. In a filing last week in Hays County, Texas, that seeks a deposition from Wallace, Lively alleges he was used by publicists working with Baldoni to weaponize “a digital army around the country, including in New York and Los Angeles, to create, seed, manipulate, and advance disparaging content that appeared to be authentic on social media platforms and internet chat forums.”
It says the actor's Texas filing “conceded that Lively has no facts supporting the allegations she made against Wallace and Street," which is why she now seeks to investigate the extent of his conduct.
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