Blake Lively's lawyer filed a revised complaint Tuesday against Justin Baldoni, director and actor of "End With Us", alleging other unnamed witnesses filed an inappropriate complaint about scene allegations of behavior support her claims about the revenge movement and are willing to testify for it.
137 pages of application include new claims of alleged misconduct, saying "Ms. Lively is not alone in making charges about the film being edited more than a year ago and proves "the defendant's revenge campaign" allegedly against Lively and others threatened, harassed and intimidated, Lively's lawyers Esra Hudson and Mike, Mike and Mike's evidence Gottlieb said.
Her lawyers said they will dismiss the lawsuit filed against Lively and her husband in the coming weeks.
The complaint is against Wayfarer Studios, studio co-founders Baldoni and Steve Sarowitz, its CEO James Heath, Baldoni and Wayfarer, crisis crisis communication expert Melissa Nathan, her company Company, agency group, Wayfarer public relations staff Jennifer Abel, etc.
New items in the revised complaint allegedly Bardoni made other women feel uncomfortable on the scene.
In May 2023, a female actor without lively concerns about "unwelcome behavior" by Sony employees and one of the film producers, the document said. Sony employees shared these concerns with Wayfarer and responded to the female actor on June 1, 2023, responding in writing “Acknowledge that he knows his concerns and makes adjustments.”
The complaint said the defendant's "retaliatory atmosphere of threat, harassment and intimidation" had to be lively "changed her personal and professional life" and "take steps to protect innocent bystanders." The complaint did not refer to the witness by name, but said the witness had allowed her to “share the essence of her communication in the complaint” and they would testify during the discovery process and generate responsive documents.
It also includes allegations that the social media campaign, allegedly curated by the Bardoni Camp, became "dangerously extreme" and led to "disturbing threats" for lively families, other actors, other actors and fact witnesses. In one example, the complaint of the unnamed person was described as publicly supporting the vivid person, receiving a written death threat. This file does not specify who the threat comes from.
The revised complaint added Jed Wallace as the defendant, Texas contractor, who described himself as a self-employed “public relations consultant” who provided “crisis mitigation services.” The document states that the institution group was "engaged" by Wallace in early 2024, "designing and implementing their 'social battle plan". The complaint said Wallace specializes in carrying out an "untraceable" campaign on social media platforms to "shape the public's perception of customers."
Wallace filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in federal court in Texas earlier this month. In his lawsuit, he said he was "not related to alleged retaliatory efforts against lively" and the allegations "caused millions of dollars in reputational damage."
The revised document also claims that the pedestrian investigation of misconduct is a farce. The company investigated itself last month and hired an external investigation lawyer.
"A internal investigation of privilege and confidentiality raised and controlled by the same person prosecuted for sexual harassment and retaliation is not an exercise in transparency, but a sham surgery," the document said.
A Lively spokesman said Wayfarer chose to develop a plan to retaliate and discredit accusers rather than thoroughly investigating any claims of sexual harassment when it first surfaced.
Justin Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the revised complaint.
Freedman represents Wayfarer Studios and all of his representatives, except Baldoni, who previously described Lively's allegations as "absolutely wrong."
"These statements are totally wrong, outrageous, intentional, with the intention of publicly hurting and re-narrative in the media," he said in a statement.
NBC News also extended a lawyer to other defendants in the lawsuit.
The revised complaint is part of Bardoni's legal hatred with lively part, following the filming and release of "End With Us" by the popular Colleen Hoover novel.
Lively's initial complaint was filed with the California Civil Rights Department on December 20 and accused Baldoni of sexual harassment while filming "End With Us." It also claimed that Bardoni had raised revenge on the buzz about his behavior on the scene. In addition to these allegations, Lively claims Baldoni has also hired a crisis propaganda company to engage in a "social manipulation movement" to promote the film.
This document is usually the predecessor of a lawsuit. Bardoni denied the allegations.
On December 31, Baldoni sued in the Los Angeles County Superior Court and accused the New York Times of Libel of the story on December 21 and listed Lively's allegations. The New York Times depends on its report.
On the same day, Lively sued Baldoni in the southern part of New York. In the lawsuit, Lively claims that film production company Wayfarer Studios Baldoni and others engage in “an elaborate, coordinated and resource-rich revenge program to get her to talk to others so as not to speak out.”
Bardoni's lawyers called the allegation "a vicious smear campaign that was completely orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team."
Initially, fans noticed the tension between the stars, following the film’s premiere and noted that Bardoni and the lively people never seemed to interact on the red carpet and news tours. This sparked renewed interest in social media when the lawsuit was filed.