{"id":118606,"date":"2025-01-23T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118606"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T09:56:52","slug":"20-00-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118606","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve Received Vile Antisemitic Slurs\u2019: Justin Baldoni\u2019s Publicists File Counter-Lawsuit Against Blake Lively"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018We\u2019ve Received Vile Antisemitic Slurs\u2019: Justin Baldoni\u2019s Publicists File Counter-Lawsuit Against Blake Lively<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Justin Baldoni attends the \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 premiere in New York City, US, Aug. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS\/Caitlin Ochs<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Actor-director Justin Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios, and his publicists, Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan, filed on Thursday a joint $400 million countersuit against actress Blake Lively, in part claiming they received \u201cabhorrent abuse and vile antisemitic slurs\u201d after Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court of the Southern District of New York in response to Lively\u2019s own lawsuit against Baldoni<\/a>, his public relations team, and Wayfarer Studios that was filed last month. In her filing, Lively, 37, accused Baldoni, 40, of sexual harassment and \u201csexually inappropriate behavior\u201d on the set of their recent film \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d and his team of initiating \u201ca coordinated effort to destroy her reputation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Baldoni directed \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d and also starred in the film alongside Lively. In the film, Lively plays a florist named Lily Bloom who experiences domestic violence during her relationship with Baldoni\u2019s character, a neurosurgeon named Ryle. Baldoni\u2019s mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family with roots in Eastern Europe but he follows the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a joint statement given to The Algemeiner,<\/em> Abel and Nathan explained their decision to join a counter-lawsuit against Lively after her own lawsuit in December. Their suit on Thursday also names Lively\u2019s husband, \u201cDeadpool\u201d actor Ryan Reynolds, and Lively\u2019s publicist as defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last month we have received death threats, abhorrent abuse, and vile antisemitic slurs hurled at us due to her decision to use us as scapegoats for her own choices promoting her film in which she made millions of dollars,\u201d Abel and Nathan said. \u201cWith this filing, we lift our own curtain of what happens when the entitled weaponize power, fear, and money to destroy, intimidate, and bully those who get in their way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nathan is a crisis management expert and CEO and founder of The Agency Group (TAG) public relations firm, which has offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC. Abel is the founder and CEO of RWA Communications, a public relations and media company based in Beverly Hills. She is Baldoni\u2019s personal publicist.<\/span><\/p>\n

In their joint statement, the two publicists also expressed frustration that they are \u201cforced to answer this viciously selfish ongoing litigation littered with documented and provable lies in the midst of the tragedy impacting California where we reside.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFive months ago, Ms. Lively chose to promote a film about domestic violence in a way that caused instant negative and organic backlash due to her own highly publicized actions. Instead of accepting responsibility, she decided to cruelly blame us,\u201d they added. \u201cThis malicious attack on private individuals by Ms. Lively and her team in which they chose to spoon feed The New York Times<\/em> with doctored, out of context, and edited text messages in an effort to paint herself as a victim set off a chain of events that has been harmful beyond measure. To be clear, Ms. Lively and her team initiated this smear campaign in the media for the sole intention of gaining undeserved public sympathy for her own missteps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In their lengthy lawsuit on Thursday obtained by The Algemeiner<\/em>, the plaintiffs made further claims about Lively directing a \u201csmear campaign\u201d against them that was carried out by her team. They also claimed Lively \u201cconcocted a fantastical narrative that laid the blame for her travails exactly where she believed it belonged \u2014 with others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ramifications of this scheme have been grave for Wayfarer, Baldoni, Abel, and Nathan, who became objects of public scorn and derision overnight,\u201d the lawsuit stated. \u201cAbel and Nathan, two private individuals (and female small business owners), have had their lives turned upside down: Their careers and reputations have been destroyed, their private information leaked, and their email inboxes and social media pages filled with a daily stream of death threats, abuse, and vile antisemitic remarks. The backlash against Wayfarer and Baldoni has been equally devastating, with Baldoni wrongfully labeled as a sex pest, his accolades rescinded, and his future projects thrown into doubt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit on Thursday also addressed the accusations that Lively made in her own filing, including claims that Baldoni improvised unapproved and intimate scenes during filming \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d used sexually inappropriate language on the film\u2019s set, and talked with Lively about his experience with pornography. Lively also claimed in her lawsuit that Baldoni walked into her trailer uninvited while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding her baby, the youngest of her four children.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plaintiffs in Thursday\u2019s lawsuit sought to discredit all of Lively\u2019s allegations. Discussing Lively\u2019s claim that Baldoni walked into her trailer uninvited and while she was undressed, they said in their lawsuit, \u201cthe suggestion that this ever happened is illogical and categorically false.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo one would or did enter Lively\u2019s trailer without knocking first and asking permission,\u201d the lawsuit stated. \u201cMore than once, Lively invited Baldoni, [producer Jamey] Heath, and other producers into her trailer so that she could multi-task, understandably balancing motherhood with her work obligations. Regrettably, while accommodating Lively, Baldoni and Heath were led into situations that would later be characterized as harassment. Lively herself invited Baldoni to her trailer to \u2018work on lines\u2019 while she pumped breast milk. Lively regularly breast-fed in front of Baldoni while they had meetings \u2026 Lively was not topless, as she claims elsewhere, but was fully covered while either nursing or pumping breast milk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Baldoni\u2019s publicists also claimed that Lively\u2019s publicist, Leslie Sloane, \u201cdevised and executed a smear campaign of her own against Baldoni,\u201d and disseminated \u201cfalse and defamatory stories\u201d about Baldoni and Wayfarer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baldoni has been dropped by his talent agency WME because of Lively\u2019s accusations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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