Justin Baldoni sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400 million, alleging defamation and extortion over It Ends With Us
The lawsuit comes less than a month after Blake Lively’s complaint that accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign.
Justin Baldoni is now suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc. over the heated situation behind the scenes of It Ends With Us.
Attorneys for the actor-director, 40, filed a $400 million lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, Jan. 16 on behalf of Baldoni, producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, claiming Lively, 37, took measures to gain control of the hit movie.
He’s suing on claims of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, intentional interference with contractual relations,
intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage.
Reps for Lively, Reynolds and Sloane did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
In a statement, Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman says: “This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited.
