Blake Lively Alleges Justin Baldoni Made Other Women “Uncomfortable” On ‘It Ends With Us’ & Says They Will Testify At Trial; Defamation Claim Added To Suit

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With minutes to spare before a court imposed deadline of midnight ET, lawyers for Blake Lively have just filed an amended complaint against Justin Baldoni in the Gossip Girl vet’s sexual harassment and smear campaign action against her It Ends With Us co-star and director.

In a legal and cultural landscape where the blast radius from this battle was already pretty large, things just got a whole lot bigger, with more women cited in the amendment.

Also, with a settlement nowhere in sight, mediation rejected by all sides, and contested telecomm subpoenas, this saga of alleged misconduct, money, astroturfing and career crash and burning now finds Lively adding a defamation claim and civil conspiracy in her 141-page FAC (First Amended Complaint).

There are also two new, but not unexpected defendants, in Crisis PR firm Street Relations and its founder Jed Wallace. Perhaps more importantly, this time, in a complaint 48 pages longer than the New Year’s Eve complaint Lively first filed, there are other women cited.