In the latest development of Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s highly-publicized legal conflict, the ‘It Ends With Us’ director has sued Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds alleging defamation and extortion. The legal suit was filed by Baldoni with the federal court in New York on Thursday seeking $400 million (Dhs 1,469,190,000) in damages.
In the bitter legal battle, Baldoni has accused Lively and Reynolds of hijacking the production, promotion, and marketing of ‘It Ends With Us’ and inciting a smear campaign against him, while also falsely accusing him of sexual harassment and body-shaming.
Besides Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane’s PR firm Vision, has also been named in the legal suit where he claims of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and …