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Baldoni’s new website and filed in court, the movie’s director (Baldoni), 41, claims its leading lady (Lively), 37, “often” refused to go to fittings and demanded her character Lily Bloom’s outfits be “re-shopped,” thus resulting in an alleged inflated budget by $430,000.According to Baldoni’s amended complaint from his $400 million suit, Lively reportedly demanded the “costume department pack up wardrobe and deliver it to her personal residence” in Manhattan instead of traveling to the production office — roughly 15 minutes from her home — resulting in additional expenses. “Loading the wardrobe department on trucks and delivering the contents to Lively’s home in the middle of congested Manhattan for fittings cost time and money—always in short supply on any major film,” the court docs read.

his “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively has left him “devastated financially and emotionally,” his lawyer Bryan Freedman said Monday at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan.Speaking in front of a judge assigned to oversee the stars’ warring lawsuits, Freedman added that the accusations Lively leveled against the “Jane the Virgin” alum and his co-defendants — “It Ends With Us” producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, their production company Wayfarer Studios and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel — have allegedly amounted to “hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice.”“My grave concern is that my clients suffered hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice as a result of actions they were blindsided by,” he said.Freedman also pleaded with the judge to fast-track the case, claiming his clients were “suffering greatly.”Michael Gottlieb, attorney for Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, insisted they were not dragging their heels.In her lawsuit filed in New York on New Year’s Eve, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and, along with his associates, orchestrating a public smear campaign against her. The claims, which the “Gossip Girl” veteran first made in an interview with The New York Times, mirrored those included in the her California Civil Rights Department Complaint against Baldoni.He denied her accusations.

a new website over the weekend with alleged unseen texts between himself and his co-star Blake Lively, who is suing him for sexual harassment, and her husband Ryan Reynolds.The site, titled “Lawsuit Info,” links to an amended version of his $400 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, Reynolds, 48, and their publicist Leslie Sloane. Reynolds is accusing the trio of defamation and extortion.Baldoni’s website also links to a 168-page document outlining the timeline of events before and after the filming of “It Ends With Us,” which he filed in court as an exhibit to his amended complaint.The 168-page court filing includes never-before-seen texts and emails that Baldoni allegedly exchanged with Lively and Reynolds who, according to Baldoni, streamrolled him during the making of the movie.One of the messages between Baldoni and Lively from April 2023 shows them discussing a rewrite for the film’s iconic rooftop scene.

“It Ends With Us” legal dispute.The court date for the case was scheduled by Judge Lewis J. Liman in a legal order filed on Monday, according to court documents obtained by The Post.Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41, are suing each other in federal court in New York. Lively filed a $250 million lawsuit against Baldoni last month, alleging sexual harassment and a smear campaign.

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

fears for his “struggling” father, saying he and his siblings, Brandi Cyrus, Miley Cyrus and Noah Cyrus, fear they may “lose him” if he doesn’t get help soon.The emotional letter came after Billy Ray’s concerning performance at the Liberty Ball after Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday in which the musician could be heard singing out of tune and rambling at the audience during his bizarre set.Trace’s pleas after his father’s trainwreck performance were not well received, with Billy Ray now said to be threatening him with legal action, Trace has claimed in his latest post.“Dad my messages was beyond loving,” the 35-year-old began. “I could have been extremely honest about a lot more but I don’t want to put your business out there like that.”“But for you to threaten me with legal action for wanting you to get help is a disgrace. Pappy is looking down at you with such disappointment I can assure you.“You should be ashamed of yourself.

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.

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.

“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.

The lawsuit, filed Friday by Buck Woodall in California federal court, claims the Disney films exhibit “breathtaking” similarities to his script, “Bucky the Wave Warrior” or “Bucky,” an animated feature he says was inspired by his “unique exposure” to Polynesian culture.Woodall is seeking “at least $10 billion” in damages and 2.5% of the gross revenue from “Moana 2” and related merchandise, a sum he estimated to be “at least $5 billion.”Both “Moana” and “Moana 2” were runaway hits for Disney, with the sequel setting the record for the biggest Thanksgiving weekend debut in box office history (it raked in $221 million in its five-day domestic open).In addition to Disney, production company Mandeville Films and former Mandeville exec Jenny Marchick (currently head of feature development for DreamWorks Animation) are named as defendants, per People.The timing of the legal action is less than ideal for Disney. The studio is reportedly hoping “Moana 2” will garner a Best Animated Feature Oscar nod when the Academy announces nominations, which was extended because of the devastating LA fires.According to Woodall’s lawsuit, the alleged similarities between the “Moana” movies and his script include a teenage protagonist on “a dangerous voyage across Polynesian waters” to save an “endangered” island, “ancient spirits manifested as animals which guide and guard the living,” a symbolic necklace central to the story and a demigod with a giant hook and tattoos, among others.Woodall claimed that he began sharing his ideas for “Bucky” with Marchick when she was at Mandeville Films in 2003.

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.

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.

Lively’s legal complaint against their “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni, who was accused of sexual harassment and orchestrating a PR smear campaign against Lively, 37.“As Blake Lively’s castmate and friend, I voice my support as she takes action against those reported to have planned and carried out an attack on her reputation,” Slate told Today. “Blake is a leader, loyal friend and a trusted source of emotional support for me and so many who know and love her,” Slate continued.The actress added, “What has been revealed about the attack on Blake is terribly dark, disturbing and wholly threatening.

her bombshell complaint against Justin Baldoni, where she accused the actor of sexual harassment and mounting a smear campaign against her. Morrone, 34, and Lively filmed “A Simple Favor 2” together earlier this year, after she wrapped production on “It Ends With Us” with Baldoni, 40, who also directed the flick.“So it’s usually not my thing to make these types of videos, but I think it’s time to stand up for a person that I really love and this person is Blake Lively,” Morrone said in his video.“I personally met Blake during ‘A Simple Favor 2.’ We shot this incredible film together, and I felt something was wrong, and I felt the pain and then we had the opportunity to talk, me and her,” the Italian actor continued. “Blake was in pain,” Morrone said.

Blake’s bombshell lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director. Baldoni has been accused of sexually harassing Blake on the set of the film and formulating a smear campaign to “destroy” her reputation. Johnson, 54, called Baldoni “a fraud” in a scathing post shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday.“He puts on the ‘costume’ of a hero, man bun and all.

obtained by TMZ. He claims he had to set up parties his boss called “Wild King Nights,” which would involve multiple women and sometimes last for days.His duties included prepping the hotel rooms with red lights as well as red ones, as well as alcohol, marijuana, baby oil, towels and illegal drugs, according to the lawsuit. Pines claims he had to remove any evidence of drugs and sex toys, as well as clean up stains from bodily fluids.