Justin Baldoni files amended Blake Lively lawsuit, here’s how it all started
Justin Baldoni
Here’s Proof Blake & NYT Plotted For Months!! !
Amends Suit Against Her
Published on January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM PST
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Updated on January 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM PST
Justin Baldoni says he now has cold hard proof Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds had it out for him several months before she dropped her Christmas surprise lawsuit against him … so, now he’s updating his lawsuit against them.
According to new docs, obtained by TMZ, Justin alleges the “malicious and recklesss” defamation of his character started at least as early as October 31 — it’s got nothing to do with Halloween, and everything to do with the metadata embed in the New York Times article about Blake’s lawsuit against Justin.
Here’s their evidence … Justin’s team claims observers of the article found “viewing the HTML source code for the article revealed references to a ‘message-embed-generator’ that referred to a date of ‘2024-10-31. ‘”
So, in layman’s terms, and in Justin’s lawsuit … he says that shows the NYT started building the allegedly defamatory article no later than October 31 — the date the outlet developed a tool to display the text messages which were such a prominent part of Blake’s lawsuit and the Times article about it.
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Team Baldoni says that’s significant because the elements behind the now infamous article “strip away the legal shields that Lively, the Times, and other Lively Parties were likely relying on to protect their malicious acts of defamation. “
As we’ve reported, Justin is suing the NYT for $250 million — separate from his $400 million suit against Blake and Ryan — alleging the outlet cherry-picked and doctored text messages in its article, and colluded with Blake to support her attack on his character.
Justin’s attorney Bryan Freedman tells TMZ … “The decision to amend our lawsuit was a logical next step due to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light. The new evidence confirms what we already knew, that Ms. Lively, her team, and herself colluded to destroy reputations for months on end, based solely on egotistical motives. “
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Freedman adds, “The ongoing public interest in this case online has ironically shed light on the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and how heavily Ms. Lively and her representatives were not only deeply involved in the attempted take down and smear campaign of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it. The amended lawsuit also includes a 150-page timeline which outlines Blake’s alleged campaign against Justin in great detail. It’s a 150-page timeline. How detailed is it, exactly? It starts on January 1, 2019 when Justin sent an email to Colleen Hoover – the author of “It Ends With Us”. It continues, step by step, until January 29, 2025. This is how the battle will go.
