Hollywood can’t get enough of the ever escalating war of accusations, media bites and court filings in Blake Lively‘s sexual harassment and retaliation claims over what went down with Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us and leading up to the Sony distributed film’s premiere last summer.
Now, with just a couple of days until the first actual hearing in the multi-pronged matter before an actual judge, Baldoni, Crisis PR boss Melissa Nathan and attorney Bryan Freedman have made good on their long boasted threat to put everything up online.
Kinda. Despite promises of full transparency, the much-vaulted site merely contains the first amended complaint Baldoni’s team filed Friday in the January 16 $400 million defamation and extortion suit against Lively and Ryan Reynolds, and a text message rich timeline of events in the IEWU saga.
To say it is underwhelming and blatantly one-sided is an understatement of the obvious. Running from January 1, 2019 with Baldoni’s initial emails to IEWU author Colleen Hoover to a January 29, 2025 “deeper analysis” of metadata on when exactly the New York Times started working on their December 21 ‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine’ article on Baldoni, Nathan and publicist Jennifer Abel’s alleged efforts to taint Lively.
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