Amid Justin Baldoni’s legal battle, Blake Lively requests a stronger protective order from the judge after receiving violent messages
The request comes after Lively filed an amended complaint with “significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims,” per her lawyers Blake Lively has requested “additional protections” in her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni.
After both sides agreed to a protective order (PO), attorneys for the actress, 37, and her husband Ryan Reynolds submitted a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, Feb. 20, requesting a stronger PO than the court’s “model” one.
Among their requests for the proposed PO, which they also filed in a separate document, are “an Attorney’s Eyes Only (‘AEO’) category, which applies to ‘Confidential Discovery Material of such a highly confidential and personal,
The lawyers for Lively and Reynolds continued by asserting that “good cause exists for the Court to adopt the Proposed PO,” referring to the actress’s most recent amended complaint against 41-year-old Baldoni.
“As detailed in Ms. Lively’s Amended Complaint, Ms. Lively, her family, other members of the cast, various fact witnesses, and individuals that have spoken out publicly in support of Ms. Lively have received violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications,” the letter reads.
Alleging se xual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign, which they deny, Lively filed lawsuits against her co-star and director of It Ends With Us, producer Heath, Wayfarer Studios and its co-founder Steve Sarowitz, Jennifer Abel, Baldoni’s publicist, crisis PR specialist Melissa Nathan and her agency, and Jed Wallace and his crisis-management firm.
