Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have filed competing multimillion-dollar lawsuits over allegations of sexual harassment on the set of the film It Ends with Us.
Lively, 37, filed a lawsuit in New York on Tuesday in which she accused Baldini, 40, of sexual harassment and initiating a scheme to “destroy” her reputation.
Meanwhile Baldoni has filed a lawsuit against The New York Times, which first reported Lively’s claims.
Baldoni has hired a lawyer who accused The New York Times of using “cherry-picked” texts to support Lively’s case
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Baldoni has accused the newspaper of working with the actress to damage his reputation by omitting information to support Lively’s version of events.
The newspaper denied the claims and insisted that the article, which was produced by three of its writers, was “meticulously and responsibly reported”.
Lively and Baldoni both starred in the film It Ends