Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The owner of a crisis mitigation firm who was accused of launching a “digital army” against Blake Lively has sued the actor for defamation.
Jed Wallace, owner of Street Relations, filed a multi-million dollar suit against Lively on Tuesday in federal court in Texas.
Wallace was accused in Lively’s lawsuit and civil rights complaint of working as part of Justin Baldoni‘s online smear campaign against her, which she claimed came in retaliation for her complaints of sexual harassment on the set of “It Ends With Us.” In his lawsuit, Wallace states that he had “nothing to do with” the alleged retaliatory effort.
He also argues that he has suffered millions of dollars in reputational harm due to being named in the complaint. This marks the fifth lawsuit filed in connection with the Baldoni-Lively scandal.
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