Blake Lively's lawyers slam 'more attacks' from Justin Baldoni's team after 'smear campaign'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Blake Lively's lawyers have called out “more attacks” from Justin Baldoni's legal team over “a retaliatory smear campaign”.

On December 20, Lively, 37, who starred in Baldoni’s film It Ends with Us, filed a complaint against Baldoni and others including his producing partners and publicists, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign to tarnish her reputation. "This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” Lively’s legal team said in a statement.

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman called the claims “false, outrageous and intentionally salacious". On New Year’s Eve, the actor-director also filed a $250m lawsuit against the New York Times over the newspaper’s December 2021 article about the Lively complaint, alleging it was the actress "who engaged in a calculated smear campaign".

This week, Lively’s legal team claimed in a statement that her “serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation” are “backed by concrete facts.”“This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” her lawyers' statement read.“As alleged in Ms.