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Blake Lively filed a formal lawsuit Tuesday against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment and retaliation, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

Lively, 37, filed her first complaint against Baldoni with the California Department of Civil Rights on December 1 on September 21 and accused Baldoni (who also directed the film) of sexual harassment while working on the drama.

She also claims that after raising her concerns He along with the public relations team during the crisis has orchestrated a counter-campaign aimed at destroying her career.

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Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni of sexual assault in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday, December 1, 31. (Getty Images)

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Lively’s federal lawsuit was released on Tuesday shortly after Baldoni filed his own $250 million defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, which he claims published the article. “Full of inaccuracies. misrepresentation and omissions.”

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“Nothing in this lawsuit changes anything about the claims advanced in Ms. Lively’s California Department of Civil Rights complaint or her federal complaint filed today,” a representative for Lively told Fox News Digital.

Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni in December. After rumors of a feud arose on the show “It Ends With Us” (Getty Images)

“This lawsuit is based on the clear false premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaints against Wayfarer and others were a ploy based on the choice ‘not to file charges against Baldoni, Wayfarer’ and ‘litigation never was. Her ultimate goal’, as evidenced by Ms. Lively’s previously filed federal complaint. Wayfarer’s frame of reference for litigation is false. We look forward to addressing all of Wayfarer’s allegations in court.”

The “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” actress accused in federal documents that Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios’ production company, and a number of associates were involved in “A meticulously crafted, coordinated, and resourceful response program to silence her and others from speaking out.”

Lively claims Baldoni, along with a public relations firm during the crisis, orchestrated A “multi-level plan” to destroy her reputation after she (along with her husband Ryan Reynolds) addressed “sexual harassment and other disruptive behavior” Over and Over” by Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath (who is also named in the lawsuit).

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively meet on the set of ‘It Ends with Us’ on January 1 September 12, 2024 (Image by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC)

She also accused Baldoni and Heath of “discussing their personal sexual experiences and previous porn addictions” on set, according to the documents.

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A representative for Baldoni did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. He previously told the Times that Lively’s initial claims were “completely false, outrageous and deliberately insulting. with the intent to harm and alter the public narrative in the media.”

Baldoni filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the New York Times after they published a story with the headline “We Can Bury Any:” Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine, which reported that private emails and text messages show “a playbook for Mocks mostly undetected messages. Digital Campaign” About Lively

However, Baldoni and other plaintiffs Including Hollywood PR experts. Confirming that the Times article “deliberately omitted portions of the text exchange and other information that contradicted the actors’ version of events,” they claim the Times defamed them in the process. It omitted important context from communications that disputed many of Lively’s claims.

Baldoni didn’t just star in the film adaptation of the novel. But he also directed the film. (Getty Images)

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“The central thesis of this article, summarized in a defamatory headline designed to immediately mislead readers, is that Plaintiffs orchestrated a counter-public relations campaign against Lively for speaking out about sexual harassment. This evidence is categorically false and easily refuted,” states the 87-page lawsuit filed by Attorney Brian Friedman in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Friedman told Variety that the Times “succumbed to the demands and desires of a Hollywood elite that Two “untouchables” ignore the journalistic and ethical practices that once befitting such a respected publication. By using text that has been modified and modified. and deliberately omitted statements that contradicted their chosen public relations narrative.”

“The role of independent news organizations is to follow the facts they present. Our stories are reported meticulously and responsibly. It is based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents. Including texts and emails that we correctly referenced and in the article,” Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha said. Fox News Digital–

“We publish theirs. Full statement In response to the allegations in the article,” she continued, “We plan to vigorously defend this case.”

Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood contributed to this report.

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