Justin Baldoni and his PR team are suing Blake Lively and The New York Times for defamation related to a podcast episode that alleged Baldoni's mistreatment of women. The lawsuit claims that Lively conspired with The New York Times to present a biased narrative using manipulated texts and omitting contradictory evidence.
of conspiring with Lively’s public relations team to advance an “unverified and self-serving narrative” using “cherry-picked and altered communications stripped of necessary context” while ignoring evidence that contradicted her claims. He seeks at least $250 million and brings claims related to fraud and breach of contract, as well as libel.
In a statement, Jami Kandel, a representative for Lively, said “nothing in this lawsuit changed anything about the claims advanced in Ms. Lively’s California Civil Rights Department Complaint, nor her federal complaint, filed earlier today.” She added, “This lawsuit is based on the obviously false premise that Ms.
The messages detailed in Lively’s complaint include a key exchange where Abel pushes the crisis public relations team, “I think you guys need to be tough and show the strength of what you guys can do in these scenarios. wants to feel like she can be buried.” To which Nathan replied, “Of course — but you know when we send over documents we can’t send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble. We can’t write we will destroy her.
The lawsuit accuses the publication of disregarding evidence that contradicted Lively’s claims. “Even a cursory investigation by the Times would have exposed the baseless nature of Lively’s allegations and the lack of factual support for her narrative,” Freedman writes in the complaint.publishing the bombshell report. Baldoni’s publicists, Abel of RWA Communications and Nathan of The Agency Group, were allegedly only given 14 hours to respond before it ran the story on Dec. 21.
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