Justin Baldoni dragged Hailey Bieber controversy into alleged plan to smear Blake Lively online
nypost.comfiled a legal complaint against Baldoni, 40, and accused him of sexual harassment and creating a smear campaign meant to “destroy” her reputation.The legal filing included a series of private text messages as evidence of Lively’s claims against Baldoni.
One message from August 4 showed that Baldoni allegedly texted a screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) titled “Hailey Bieber’s history of bullying many women.”“This is what we would need,” Baldoni wrote in the text about Hailey, 28.
He allegedly sent the message to PR executive Jennifer Abel, who responded, “Yes, I literally just spoke to Melissa [Nathan] about this on the break about what we discussed last night for social and digital.
Focus on Reddit, TikTok, IG [Instagram].”Melissa Nathan is a crisis PR manager who was hired by Baldoni over the summer when the movie came out.
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