Blake Lively’s Lawyers Accuse Justin Baldoni’s Team Of “Blame The Victim” Tactics As ‘It Ends With Us’ Battle Fought Out In Media & Courts

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Justin Baldoni has yet to actually go after Blake Lively in court over her accusations of sexual harassment and an online smear campaign, but the It Ends With Us actress’ attorneys are rebuking the Jane the Virgin alum’s team over “more attacks” in the media. “Ms.

Lively’s federal litigation before the Southern District of New York involves serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, backed by concrete facts,” Lively’s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attorneys and Willkie Farr & Gallagher lawyers said late Monday, noting their client’s stinging 93-page NYE lawsuit. “This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences; or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” they stated mere hours after Baldoni’s main attorney Bryan Freedman appeared on NewsNation taking swings at the New York Times, Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds. “As alleged in Ms.

Lively’s complaint, and as we will prove in litigation, Wayfarer and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms.

Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on a film set. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms.