Justin Baldoni’s Lawyer Decries “Revoltingly False Sexual Allegations” From Blake Lively As Lawsuits Fly; Brands At Business Heart Of Dispute

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EXCLUSIVE: With yet another week of more lawsuits in the ever increasing obloquy fray between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the court of public opinion has proved as much of a field of operations as the state and federal dockets.

A front that Bryan Freedman is willing to concede to no rival. “After my clients filed a comprehensive lawsuit packed with almost 200 pages of undeniable facts and documentary evidence which crushed their false allegations of a smear campaign by providing doctored communications to the New York Times, Blake and her legal team have just one heinous pivot left, and that is to double down on the revoltingly false sexual allegations against Mr.

Baldoni,” the hard hitting and media savvy attorney told Deadline. The Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley LLP co-founder was responding Saturday to the January 16 response from Lively’s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attorneys and Willkie Farr & Gallagher lawyers to Baldoni’s long expected lawsuit of last week against his co-star, hubby Ryan Reynolds, the publicist Leslie Sloane and her VisionPR shingle.

Match point of sorts to Lively’s NYE legal action against Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, CEO Jamey Heath, financier Steve Sarowitz and PR chiefs Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel for sexual harassment on IEWU and a post-production smear campaign, the $400 million-seeking move by the Jane the Virgin vet goes after Lively, Reynolds and Sloane for defamation and extortion.