Justin Baldoni's legal team have accused Blake Lively of inventing "revoltingly false" allegations.
The 37-year-old actress filed a lawsuit against her 'It Ends with Us' co-star and director, as well as his publicists and producing partners, on 20 December accusing him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a bid to tarnish her reputation, and last week he and his production company hit back by launching a lawsuit, in which he is seeking $400 million damages for extortion and defamation.
And after Blake's team branded the lawsuit "another chapter in the abuser playbook", Justin's representatives have hit out at her "preposterous" behaviour.
Lawyer Bryan Freedman told Deadline: “After my clients filed a comprehensive lawsuit packed with almost 200 pages of undeniable facts and documentary evidence which crushed their false allegations of a smear campaign by providing doctored communications to the New York Times, Blake and her legal team have just one heinous pivot left, and that is to double down on the revoltingly false sexual allegations against Mr. Baldoni...
The mere fact that Ms. Lively feels that she can publicly destroy Mr. Baldoni’s reputation in an attempt to devastate his future career and then deny him or his team their own ability to defend theirselves against her is preposterous."
Bryan insisted Justin "kindly" addressed Blake's concerns in private despite her "many wongdoings" during the making of the movie as he was determined to "keep the peace".
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