Blake Lively faces a second Demand demand After the actor claimed that she was sexually harassed while making the movie “End with us” and subsequently attacked by a coordinated smear campaign.
Jed Wallace, owner of the public relations firm, Street Relations, filed the complaint against Lively on Tuesday at the Federal District Court of Texas. He affirmed that Wallace suffered “millions of dollars in reputation damage” as a result of the extensive informed of Lively Legal battle with Justin Baldoniwho directed and starred in front of her in the film. Wallace is looking for at least $ 6 million in damage.
Lively appointed Wallace and street relations in an initial civil rights complaint that he presented in California before finally demanding Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios in the Federal Court of New York at the end of last year.
His complaint and demand accused Wallace and his firm to participate in a retaliation scheme to intentionally damage Lively’s reputation and discourage to speak, the accusations that Wallace formally denied in his defamation action this week. Neither Wallace nor the company are accused of Lively’s demand against Baldoni.
“Wallace and Street were widely informed as accused in the formal demand, although they were not, the confusion has been sown by the precursor,” said the demand for defamation.
In his New York demand, Lively alleged that Baldoni’s public relations team hired Wallace and street relationships to orchestrate a digital campaign to convert public opinion against it. He suggested that Wallace “put together a digital army throughout the country from New York to Los Angeles to create, sow and promote the content that seemed to be authentic on social media platforms and Internet chat forums,” with the intention “of eviscerate the credibility of Mrs. Lively “
On January 21, Lively presented a deposition petition in Hays County, Texas, against Wallace claiming that he believes he was a subcontractor of a public relations firm Baldoni is accused of hiring the alleged campaign of spots against her.
Wallace’s demand said Lively later appeared to dismiss the request because “she did not know data to support the accusations against Wallace or Street.”
CBS News has communicated with Lively to comment.
Lively first appeared with accusations of sexual harassment against Baldoni in a December interview with the New York Times. Since then, Baldoni has sued the publication and the animated by defamation. The latter sought $ 400 million from Lively and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy, while attacking the times again.
“This demand is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of evidence without being modern that details the duplication attempt of Blake Lively and his team to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and his respective companies by spreading the very edited information, without foundation, New and teacher to the media. ” said Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman, in a statement to CBS News after submitting the second lawsuit.
A New York Times spokesman called Baldoni’s accusations “without merit” in a separate statement and “recycling of equally unfounded statements” included in Baldoni’s previous complaint against the newspaper.
Lively’s legal team characterized Baldoni’s opposite demand as “another chapter in the abuser’s play book.”
“This is an ancient story: a woman speaks with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and reprisals and the abuser tries “The offender”, “The offender”, “The offender”, “The offender”, “The team said in a statement.” In short, while the victim focuses on abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy of attacking women is desperate, does not refute the evidence in Mrs. Lively’s complaint, and will fail. “
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