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Daily Mail was reportedly sent to Lively, 37, by Baldoni, 41, after the “Gossip Girl” alum suggested to her co-star and director that some changes be made to a pivotal scene in the movie.The rooftop scene, in which Lively and Baldoni’s characters meet, has been the subject of much speculation in their warring lawsuits. Lively has filed two lawsuits against Baldoni and his associates — a civil rights complaint in California and a lawsuit in New York — accusing the “Jane the Virgin” actor of sexually harassing her and causing her “severe emotional distress” in addition to lost wages.Baldoni has countersued Lively with a $400 million suit, accusing her of defamation and claiming she took certain measures to gain control over the 2024 film.Baldoni’s lawsuit also alleged that he felt “obliged” to accept and praise a revised version of the rooftop scene allegedly written by Lively (who later claimed it was written by her husband Ryan Reynolds) for fear of incurring the wrath of Reynolds and Lively’s best friend, Taylor Swift.Lively allegedly was not happy with Baldoni’s initial response to her rewrites.

their nasty legal battle with Justin Baldoni. Morrone, 34, shared a selfie of the trio on his Instagram Stories on Sunday.

Ryan Reynolds made a cameo at Hugh Jackman’s New York City concert, amid he and wife Blake Lively’s nasty legal battle with her “It Ends With Us” Justin Baldoni.Reynolds, 48, surprised a packed crowd at Radio City Music Hall on Friday when he stood up in the audience for an impromptu “Hugh & A” session during the opening night of the Broadway vet’s concert series “From New York, With Love.”The show features Jackman, 56, performing songs from some of his most iconic stage and screen roles, including “The Boy From Oz,” “Les Misérables,” “The Greatest Showman” and “The Music Man.”Reynolds started off the interaction with his signature sense of humor, per People, joking: “I was told this was going to be a comedy version of ‘Les Mis’ as a one-man show. We all said it was a terrible idea but he carried on.

sexually harass Lively, 37, on the set of “It Ends With Us.”“Justin Baldoni and team have nothing to hide,” Freedman said in a statement to The Post, noting that the raw footage from the movie that Baldoni’s team recently released “proves this.”“Justin and team have the right to defend themselves with the truth and this is what we will be continuing to show with the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos that directly quash her claims,” Freedman added.The on-set footage from “It Ends With Us” that is referenced in Freedman’s statement was sent to The Post on Tuesday, and shows Lively and Baldoni slow-dancing as their characters in May 2023.Baldoni’s legal counsel claimed the footage refutes Lively’s characterization of his behavior on the set of the movie.In her sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, Lively claimed that during the “slow dance scene,” Baldoni “leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘it smells so good.’” In the raw footage, Lively can be heard joking that she’s “probably getting spray tan on” Baldoni, who laughs and replies, “It smells good.” The video also references a charge Baldoni has leveled against Lively, namely that she implied he should get plastic surgery on his nose.Baldoni’s reps also shared a statement included on a title card at the top of the footage, saying that “both actors are clearly behaving well within the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism.”Lively’s team slammed Baldoni’s video in a statement to the Post and said the footage is “damning” and “corroborates” her allegations of sexual harassment.

TMZ.Brown’s lawsuit alleges that the Jane Doe at the heart of the “A History of Violence” documentary has been discredited multiple times and adds that she previously withdrew a suit she brought against him.However, other reporting about the docuseries at the time of its release in October 2024 states that the Jane Doe’s $20 million lawsuit brought against Brown in 2022 was dismissed that same year by a judge who cited lack of prosecution. The woman had made a report to Miami Beach Police but, according to “A History of Violence,” they concluded that her claims were unfounded and that no probable cause existed to charge Brown.

releasing raw footage from the set of their movie “It Ends With Us.”In a statement provided to The Post, Lively’s legal team said the video that Baldoni, 40, shared on Tuesday “corroborates, to the letter,” her allegations of sexual harassment rather than vindicating him, as his team have claimed.“Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning,” the statement began. “Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint.” Lively’s lawsuit alleges that during a “slow dance scene,” Baldoni “leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘it smells so good.’” In the footage that Baldoni’s lawyer shared on Tuesday, which appears to show the “slow dance scene” in question, Lively can be heard joking that she’s “probably getting spray tan on” Baldoni, who laughs and replies, “It smells good.” Lively then replies, “Well, it’s not that.

Justin Baldoni is leaning on the ones closest to him amid the “It Ends With Us” drama.After the actor, 40, filed a lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r. firm Vision PR Inc.

Baldoni, 40, is suing Lively, 37, and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, for $400 million over alleged defamation and extortion over the ongoing “It Ends With Us” saga, which centers on Lively’s allegations of sexual harassment against Baldoni.Filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York by Baldoni’s attorneys on behalf of Baldoni, “It Ends With Us” producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, the suit claims that Lively took certain measures to gain control over the 2024 film.In images cited in the court documents, Baldoni, his wife Emily and his friends and family sit at a table in a room that appears to be a basement and smile big for the camera. Boxes of popcorn and bottles of water and soda can be seen.

Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against his “It Ends With Us” co-star.Baldoni, 40, is suing Lively, 37, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r. firm Vision PR Inc. over the ongoing “It Ends With Us” saga, which centers on Lively’s allegations of sexual harassment against Baldoni.The suit — filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York by Baldoni’s attorneys on behalf of the “Jane the Virgin” star, “It Ends With Us” producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan — claims Lively took certain measures to gain control over the 2024 film.Lawyers for Lively have issued a response to the complaint, claiming his accusations are “retaliation against sexual harassment allegations.”“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook,” Lively’s legal team said in a statement to The Post.

rare interview with Charlamagne tha God on Thursday, she jumped on the horn with her longtime pal Don Lemon for his podcast to address the speculation surrounding her alleged incapacitation.“My life is ridiculous,” she told the ex-CNN anchor. “I’ve been with this guardian person for three years. For three years of my life… I’m isolated.

his new $400 million lawsuit.While Lively, 37, reportedly made a “Game of Thrones” reference about the trio in an alleged text to Baldoni, 40, she also referred to the popular Lifetime reality show that followed the Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh.“They are embarrassingly effusive,” she allegedly messaged Baldoni about her husband and bestie, adding she was the “luckiest m—–f—er on the planet” to have them as her “most trusted partners.” According to the lawsuit, Lively added, “I think they wanted you and me to see how they felt about [the rewrites] because they’ve been by my side for far too many experiences where I’ve been overlooked.”In another alleged text message to Baldoni — who served as the movie’s director and played Ryle Kincaid opposite Lively — she called herself Khaleesi from “Game of Thrones” and referred to Reynolds and Swift as “my dragons,” per the filing.“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better.

“It Ends With Us” saga continues. Justin Baldoni, 40, is suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r.

late music legend Tony Bennett are doubling down on their accusations that their brother, Danny, allegedly mismanaged their father’s funds and their family trust. Antonia and Johanna Bennett have been locked in a legal battle with their brother since June, a year after Tony’s passing in July 2023 at the age of 96.

feud with Kendrick Lamar to federal court. The “One Dance” rapper, 38, filed a defamation lawsuit in Manhattan on Wednesday against Universal Music Group — which reps both stars — for releasing Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”In the court documents obtained by The Post, Drake accused the record label of spreading the “false and malicious narrative” that he’s “a pedophile.”The lawsuit states that on May 4, 2024, the day “Not Like Us” came out, “UMG approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that falsely accuses Drake of being a pedophile and calls for violent retribution against him.”“Even though UMG enriched itself and its shareholders by exploiting Drake’s music for years, and knew that the salacious allegations against Drake were false, UMG chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists,” the suit added.Drake is signed to UMG subsidiary Republic Records, while Lamar, 37, is signed to UMG’s Interscope Records.In the court docs, Drake claimed that Lamar’s diss track — which is nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year — conveyed the “false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile.”Lamar isn’t named in the lawsuit.

During an interview with Megyn Kelly on Tuesday, Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, slammed “The Green Lantern” star, 48. The alleged insult was in a viral deleted scene from Reynolds’ movie “Deadpool & Wolverine.”In the clip, Reynolds has a man bun, the hairstyle Baldoni wore for decades until 2023, and he is “Nicepool.”“Oh my goodness, wait til you’ve seen Ladypool,” the supposed “Nicepool” says in the clip. “She is gorgeous.

NBC News if his client plans to sue Lively. “Absolutely … yes,” Freeman said in the interview, which aired on Thursday, Jan. 2.“We plan to release every single text messages between the two of them.

WME dropped Baldoni, 40, as a client in December after Blake Lively filed a complaint against her “It Ends With Us” co-star, accusing him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her.Baldoni has since filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for publishing the article with Lively’s accusations.In his own 87-page complaint, the director alleged that Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, pressured WME to drop Baldoni at the “Deadpool & Wolverine” premiere in July 2024.However, the agency denied the accusations in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. “In Baldoni’s filing, there is a claim that Reynolds pressured Baldoni’s agent at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere.

the bombshell lawsuit Baldoni filed on Tuesday, Lively allegedly “systematically sidelined [him] from the marketing of his own Film” and didn’t stop there. “Further undermining Baldoni’s role, Lively initially refused to permit his attendance at the Film’s premiere,” his legal filing obtained by The Post read.

his new lawsuit against the New York Times.Baldoni, 40, claimed that Reynolds, 48, “berated” him during a heated meeting at the couple’s Tribeca penthouse in New York, in which he accused the director of “fat shaming” his wife.The “Jane the Virgin” star allegedly asked how much Lively, 37, weighed before he was supposed to life her in a scene. Baldoni claimed he had back issues and wanted “to ensure he could safely perform the lift without injury.”In response, Reynolds “aggressively berated” Baldoni during their meeting.“The confrontation that followed was so aggressive that Baldoni felt compelled to offer repeated apologies,” the lawsuit read.“Baldoni, in an effort to avoid further confrontation with Lively and Reynolds and rebuild rapport with his co-star, continued to bend to her will,” the legal filing added.A producer on the movie who was at the meeting allegedly later said “that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that.”Lively allegedly “refused to perform” the scene with Baldoni despite rehearsing “with a stunt double.”Baldoni also claimed Reynolds pressured Baldoni’s agency, WME, to drop him — allegedly during the “Deadpool & Wolverine” premiere in July, which took place before Baldoni hired his crisis PR team.

her “It Ends with Us” co-star and director, alleging he caused her to suffer “severe emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration, and mental anguish” in addition to lost wages. TMZ was first to report the news.Lively filed her lawsuit against Baldoni, 41, and others on Tuesday in a New York federal court. “It Ends with Us,” the blockbuster movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, was filmed primarily in New York.

obtained by CNN, the co-stars claimed Zeffirelli told the then-teenagers that “they must act in the nude or the picture would fail.” Over 55 years after the filming, the performers revived a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures and home-distribution company Criterion Collections for distributing the naked scene. Hussey and Whiting suggested the two movie companies unlawfully spread their naked images featured in a bedroom scene while redistributing the award-winning romance.