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The crisis management specialist poses Blake Lively for defamation

The crisis management specialist poses Blake Lively for defamation

One of the crisis management specialists allegedly employed by Justin Baldoni filed their own lawsuit against Blake Livelyaccusing the actress of defamation.

According to The Hollywood ReporterJed Wallace from Street Relations filed a federal complaint on Tuesday in court in Texas; While Wallace was not called the accused in Lively’s initial lawsuit Against Baldoni and others, he was recently said by the actress’s legal team.

Lively claim claimed that Wallace was responsible for helping creating artificial content and “weapons of the digital army” on social platforms, which both attacked and defended baldoni among the baldoni among . It ends with us Rumors and precipitation.

“As alive, she admitted that she did not know about any facts of support of the allegations,” wrote the lawyer Wallace, Charles Babcock in his complaint. “Neither Wallace nor Street had anything to do with alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, lack of investigation in the matter or help and overthrow of alleged harassment or alleged retaliation. They could not violate the contract with Lively because there is no such contract. ”

Wallace is looking for $ 7 million in a lawsuit, which is also intended to determine that there is no role in the alleged campaign of harassing against the actress.

In response to the trial, the lawyer Lively Michael Gottlieb told Thr“Another day, another state, another nine -digit lawsuit, which is trying to sue Mrs. Lively” to forget “for saying against sexual harassment and retaliation. This is not just an advertising feat – it is a clear retaliation in response to the allegations contained in the complaint regarding sexual harassment and retaliation that Mrs. Lively submitted to the California Department of Civil Rights. Although this process will be dismissed, we are glad that Mr. Wallace has finally emerged from the shadows and that he will also be held responsible in the federal court. “

Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set It ends with us AND Organizing the erasing campaign against her. For the first time leveled these claims in Precursor complaint He submitted a department in California before filing a lawsuit.

Baldoni denied these claims and he has he filed his own lawsuit Against Lively, accusing her of defamation, forcing and invasion of privacy. Baldoni and several others have he also sued The New York Times For defamation and false light of the privacy invasion of his history about sexual harassment and claims of the Lively sexual campaign.

Competing lawsuits for live canopy are expected Go to court in 2026.