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Blake Lively is trying to put an end to this claim.
As the legal battle with her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni continues, the Gossip Girl alum’s rep slammed comments made by Baldoni’s former WME agent Danny Greenberg during a recent deposition, in which he referred to Lively’s behind-the-scenes actions on the 2024 film as “extortion.” Her team says that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“The court already dismissed their so-called ‘taking over a movie’ claim, and this cherry-picked deposition quote from Baldoni’s prior agent before he was dropped from WME adds nothing new,” a rep for Lively said in a statement to E! News Oct. 14. “In fact, the court’s dismissal even assumed their allegations were true for the sake of argument—and still held that they don’t amount to a valid claim under the law.”
Lively’s rep emphasized that her ongoing legal battle with Baldoni is just that and “not a click-bait one.”
“This is just a recycled distraction,” the rep continued, “that has nothing to do with the actual sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit Baldoni and the Wayfarer Defendants are facing.”
E! News reached out to Baldoni and Greenberg for comment but has not yet heard back.
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