Blake Lively’s Team Shrugs Off $7M Defamation Suit From Alleged Smear Campaign Architect; Jed Wallace Says Claims Have Cost Him Big Bucks
deadline.comHours after Jed Wallace launched a $7 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively today, the lawyer for the self-described “human crisis” navigator has admitted the action is in no small part a response to his likely addition to the It Ends With Us actress’ ongoing bitter battles with Justin Baldoni, his company, his backers and his publicists.
Which is not the first time a tit for tat strategy has been employed in this increasingly messy affair over the past almost two months.
The move Tuesday by Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ attorneys in the Hays County courts to drop their demand for Texas-based and Street Relations founder Wallace to give a deposition under oath about what he did and didn’t do in an alleged online smear campaign last year against the Gossip Girl vet was first reported by Deadline.
It was fairly clear, from statements made by Lively lawyer Michael Gottlieb made in a New York February 3 hearing on his client’s NYE suit against Baldoni and Baldoni’s January 16 and since amended $400 million suit against his IEWU co-star, her Deadpool hubby and their publicist that Wallace was a very probable candidate to be formally included in the consolidated case.
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