EXCLUSIVE: Blake Lively is heading to SXSW next month in Austin for the debut of Another Simple Favor, but the actress’ lawyers are exiting Texas when it comes to her and Ryan Reynolds‘ multifarious showdown with Justin Baldoni and his publicists over alleged sexual harassment during the making of It Ends With Us and the acerbic astroturfing that followed.
Less than two weeks after Lively’s team filed paperwork in the Lone Star state’s Hays County “to take a pre-suit deposition of Jed Wallace,” attorneys at Austin firm Haynes Boone LLP suddenly yanked the request out of the courts.
A “notice of non-suit/dismissal” was placed in the Texas court docket Tuesday over talking to Street Relations crisis management boss and self-described “hired gun” Wallace.
However, just one day after the first actual court hearing in the now only six-week-old $400 million and counting Lively vs Baldoni face-off the potentially pivotal role of Jed Wallace in all this celebrity dust-up that has caught Hollywood, America and the world’s attention is far from out of the spotlight.
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