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Justin Baldoni posts website containing texts and timeline surrounding dispute with Blake Lively ahead of first court hearing…
Justin Baldoni’s lawyer has launched a public website containing documents pertaining to the actor and director’s legal battle with actress Blake Lively
Baldoni’s attorney dropped the website on Saturday, two days ahead of the first court hearing in the highly publicized case, which is set for Monday.
Baldoni and Lively, who costarred in the 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” have been sparring over Lively’s accusations of sexual harassment on-set and subsequent professional retaliation. Baldoni has fiercely denied Lively’s claims, claiming that she and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, actually sought to destroy his career after hijacking the creative direction of his film.
So far, the website contains two public documents, which have already been filed in court: Baldoni’s amended $400 million complaint against Lively and Reynolds, plus a 168-page “timeline of relevant events,” which was filed as an additional exhibit to Baldoni’s amended complaint.
The public Hollywood battle began in December when Lively first filed a civil rights complaint in California, which has since escalated to a lawsuit.
Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, had vowed to the media that he would launch a website, previously telling CNN that the site would contain “all correspondence” between Lively and Baldoni with “relevant videos that directly quash her claims.”
Both the amended complaint and timeline were filed in court on January 31 – the day before the website launched. (Baldoni’s initial complaint against Lively and Reynolds was first filed on December 31, 2024.)
“The decision to amend our lawsuit was a logical next step due to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light,” Freedman told CNN in a statement on Saturday. “This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to purely egotistical reasons Ms. Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications.”