{"id":135306,"date":"2024-12-23T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/blake-lively-accuses-it-ends-with-us-director-of-harassment-smear-campaign-national\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:30:19","slug":"blake-lively-accuses-it-ends-with-us-director-of-harassment-smear-marketing-campaign-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/blake-lively-accuses-it-ends-with-us-director-of-harassment-smear-marketing-campaign-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively accuses \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 director of harassment, smear marketing campaign – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blake Lively<\/a> has accused her It Ends With Us<\/em> director and co-star Justin Baldoni<\/a> of sexual harassment on the set of the film and a subsequent effort to \u201cdestroy\u201d her popularity in a authorized grievance.<\/p>\n

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The grievance<\/a> obtained by The Associated Press, which The New York Times reported was filed Friday with the California Civil Rights Department, precedes a lawsuit. It names Baldoni, the studio behind the romantic drama It Ends With Us<\/em> and Baldoni\u2019s publicists among the many defendants.<\/p>\n

In the grievance, Lively accuses Baldoni and the studio of embarking on a \u201cmulti-tiered plan\u201d to wreck her popularity following a gathering by which she and her husband Ryan Reynolds<\/a> addressed \u201crepeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behavior\u201d by Baldoni and a producer on the film.<\/p>\n

The plan, the grievance stated, included a proposal to plant theories on on-line message boards, engineer a social media marketing campaign and place information tales crucial of Lively.<\/p>\n

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Baldoni enlisted publicists and disaster managers in a \u201csophisticated, coordinated, and well-financed retaliation plan\u201d meant to \u201cbury\u201d and \u201cdestroy\u201d Lively if she went public together with her on-set considerations, the grievance alleges.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tJustin Baldoni attends the \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on August 6, 2024 in New York City.\t\t\t\t<\/span>
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\u201cTo safeguard against the risk of Ms. Lively ever revealing the truth about Mr. Baldoni, the BaldoniWayfarer team created, planted, amplified, and boosted content designed to eviscerate Ms. Lively\u2019s credibility,\u201d the grievance states. \u201cThey engaged in the same techniques to bolster Mr. Baldoni\u2019s credibility and suppress any negative content about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The grievance additionally says Baldoni \u201cabruptly pivoted away from\u201d the film\u2019s advertising plan and \u201cused domestic violence \u2018survivor content\u2019 to protect his public image.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryan Freedman, a lawyer representing Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, referred to as the claims \u201ccompletely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pushed again towards Lively\u2019s allegations of a coordinated marketing campaign, saying the studio \u201cproactively\u201d employed a disaster supervisor \u201cdue to the multiple demands and threats made by Ms. Lively during production.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Freedman additionally stated Lively threatened to not seem on set and never promote the movie \u201cif her demands were not met.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those calls for weren’t specified within the assertion, however Lively\u2019s grievance lists 30 calls for that she stated Baldoni and others agreed to after their tense sit-down over her hostile work setting considerations.<\/p>\n

Among them: \u201cno more showing of nude videos or images of women\u201d to Lively and others on set and no extra discussions about pornography, sexual experiences or genitalia.<\/p>\n

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She additionally stated Baldoni mustn’t ask her coach about her weight with out her consent, mustn’t press her about her spiritual beliefs and will make \u201cno further mention of her dead father.\u201d<\/p>\n