Justin Baldonithe crisis management team said Taylor Swift in their supposed plan to shoot down Blake Lively.
Lively, 37, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, on Friday, Dec. 20, and her allegations against him include creating a “hostile work environment” and causing “serious emotional distress” to the actress.
Exhibits attached to the complaint showed that a crisis management expert who works for Baldoni wrote in an Aug. 6 email: “We’ve seen the most innocuous issues become gigantic because of social, or the biggest crises have no impact on social. You just can’t tell at this stage. But BL has some of the same fans as TS, so we’ll take it very seriously.”
A separate “script planning” document by Baldoni also notes “our team may also explore planting stories about weaponizing feminism and how people like Taylor Swift have been accused of using these tactics to ‘intimidate’ to get what they want.” (Lively and Swift, 35, have been very close and have documented their friendship over the years.)
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, which was filed Friday, Dec. 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after being reported by TMZ and the New York Times, Lively accused Baldoni of starting a […]
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Baldoni was also seen using a post on his social media Hailey Bieber as an example in an astroturf scheme against Lively. The text exchanges were examined in a legal complaint received by Us On Saturday, December 21, it showed that Baldoni had sent a screenshot of an X-thread unpacking “Hailey Bieber’s story of bullying women,” according to the text, writing: “This is what we needed.”
Lively’s December complaint states that “millions of people (including many reporters and influencers) who saw these planted stories, social media posts and other online content” were the “unwitting consumers of a campaign of public relations crisis, astroturfism and digital retaliation ” that were allegedly orchestrated. by Baldoni vs. Lively.
Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni on Friday, alleging an encounter that took place during his production It ends with Us in January 2024 to address Lively’s claims against her partner. According to the lawsuit, Lively’s demands included “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no mention of Baldoni’s alleged past ‘porn addiction,’ no more discussions of sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further reference to the cast and crew’s genitalia, no further inquiries into Blake’s weight, and no further reference to Blake’s dead father.”
Blake Lively claims It Ends With Us actor and director Justin Baldoni allegedly ran a “social manipulation” campaign to damage her reputation. On Saturday, December 21, news broke that Lively, 37, had sued Baldoni, 40, for sexual harassment. According to the New York Times, the lawsuit — which was filed on Friday, December 20 — […]
Baldoni’s lawyer Brian Friedman addressed Lively’s “completely false, outrageous and deliberately malicious” claims in a statement to Us. He argued that Lively filed the lawsuit to “correct her negative reputation” and “reframe a narrative” about the film’s production.
He also alleged that the actress made “multiple demands and threats” during filming, including “threatening to not show up on set, threatening not to promote the film, ultimately leading to her demise during release if she didn’t satisfy her demands”.
In a statement to The New York Times in December, Lively said, “I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these awful retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted.”
The actress denied spreading negative information about Baldoni.
