Ryan Reynolds Slams Justin Baldoni’s $400M “Gossip Rag” Suit As ‘Deadpool’ Star Moves For Dismissal
deadline.comClaiming that Justin Baldoni has nothing but “clickbait” falsehoods and “hurt feelings” on him, Ryan Reynolds wants out of the It Ends With Us star’s $400 million defamation and extortion suit against the Deadpool leading man, Blake Lively, the New York Times and Vision PR’s Leslie Sloane. “The entirety of Plaintiffs’ defamation claim appears to be based on two times that Mr.
Reynolds allegedly called Mr. Baldoni a ‘predator,'” a memorandum of law filed Tuesday in federal court by Reynolds’ attorneys declares, referring to an amended complaint by Baldoni and others earlier this year. “But, the FAC alleges no plausible facts that suggest Mr.
Reynolds did not believe this comment to be true.” Following his longtime publicist Sloane and the NYT in wanting out of the sprawling suit that Judge Lewis J.
Liman on March 6 called a “feud between PR firms,” Reynolds tries to shiv the heart of Baldoni’s case. The memo says Baldoni’s main accusation is “namely that Mr.
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