Justin Baldoni has updated his lawsuit against Blake Lively to add new claims on New York Times metadata, while accusing her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of “bullying” with the character of Nicepool in “Deadpool & Wolverine” .
Baldoni lawyers filed a modified 224 -page trial on Friday evening and launched a website to accommodate the complaint with a 168 -page calendar that accompanies it. Baldoni has produced and co-stretched with Lively in “It Ends With Us”, which has led to a legal and epic battle in the past six weeks.
Among the new allegations, the Baldoni team alleges that metadata on the Times website show that the newspaper had access to the Civil Rights complaint in Lively at least 11 days before its bomb report on December 21. The story, entitled “We can bury anyone”: in a Hollywood smear machine “, accused Baldoni and his publicists of working to tarnish the reputation of Lively in apparent reprisals for her complaints concerning sexual harassment on The tray.
Baldoni continued Reynolds, Lively and the Times for Defamation, alleging that they coated it by twisting text messages and leaving them. The modified complaint alleys that the Times first downloaded a version of the Lively Civil Rights complaint against him on December 10. The trial also claims that other metadata suggest that the Times worked on history before, perhaps from October 31.
The Times challenged the “inaccuracies” in the complaint, while the Baldoni team held the metadata as justification.
“This new proof corroborates what we have known from the start, which, for purely selfish reasons, Ms. Lively and her whole team conforms for months to destroy the reputation through a complex network of lies, false accusations and The handling of communications received illegally, “said Bryan Freedman, Baldoni lawyer, in a declaration of Variety.
The costume also claims that a video accompanying the piece of Times was created on December 12 – nine days before the broadcast of the story. According to his costume, the Times set out to get comments on the side of Baldoni on the night of December 20, giving no time for noon the next day, about 2 p.m. later. The story finally published at 10:11 am on December 21 with a comment from Freedman.
The problem of metadata was raised for the first time by online detectives. In response on Saturday, the New York Times said the information was false.
“Baldoni / Wayfarer’s legal deposits are inaccuracies on the New York Times, including, for example, the false affirms that the Times had early access to the complaint of civil rights of Ms. Lively,” said A Times spokesperson in a statement. “Mr. Baldoni lawyers base their wrong complaint on the publications of amateur internet Sleuths, which, without surprise, are wrong. The detectives noted that a version of the complaint of the animated state published by the Times Porte The date of “December 10” even if the complaint was only filed for more than a week later. received and published it.
By defending against the defamation combinations, the Times and Lively / Reynolds parties can affirm legal privileges which protect the right of the parties to plead and the right of the newspapers to cover disputes. If it can be shown that the team of Times and Lively has had early discussions outside the scope of these privileges, Freedman argued that it “deletes the legal shields” which would protect them.
The modified trial also includes new allegations concerning the representation of Reynolds of the nicepool character in “Deadpool & Wolverine”. Baldoni accuses Reynolds of using the character to make fun and intimidate him.
“Reynolds has portrayed Nicepool as a vicious caricature of a” awakening “feminist before concluding the character’s arc with his violent death of shooting in the hands of” Ladypool “, a character expressed by Blake Lively”, indicates the costume. The costume continues by saying that Nicepool was “intended to be a transparent and mocking representation of the distorted perception of Baldoni Reynolds”.
The costume alleges that the nicepool scene was killed in January 2024, shortly after an “ambush” in Lively and the apartment of Reynolds, in which Reynolds would have reprimanded Baldoni and asked for him to apologize for things that ‘He claimed that he did not do.
A representative of Lively or his legal advice could not be joined to comment.
The two parties are due to the court on Monday for their first hearing on their federal proceedings. The Lively team had planned that Freedman would publish a website containing additional evidence in the case and asked the court to brake their public relations campaign, arguing that it would prejudge the jury.
The website includes only documents that were submitted publicly on Friday and are also available on Courtistener, a site that authorizes public access to the federal judicial archives.
