It Ends With Us Lawsuit

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bangobango
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What a mess this has turned into. Blake Lively is now suing Baldoni for sexual harassment.

https://www.businessinsider.com/blake-lively-lawsuit-against-justin-baldoni-5-bombshells-2024-12

Sea Speed
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bangobango said:

What a mess this has turned into. Blake Lively is now suing Baldoni for sexual harassment.

https://www.businessinsider.com/blake-lively-lawsuit-against-justin-baldoni-5-bombshells-2024-12




You can never truly understand how much some people simp for Hollywood stars until something like this happens. It's incredible how much people appear to be invested in Hollywood goings on. Twitter is awash with them. People really like to go to bat for Hollywood stars.
Madmarttigan
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I don't know if that's accurate completely there is a ton of Blake Lively hate on reddit. I don't think it's across all social media platforms. That being said people still also think the director is a PoS as well.
G.I.Bro
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I kinda wonder what the thought process was. I mean you're messing with the wife of one of the biggest faces in Hollywood, I'm sure RR has enough pull to sink this guys career without a lawsuit. Did he think RR was so silly and fun that he wouldn't mind other men asking his wife about their orgasms?
Jugstore Cowboy
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I've known some dudes who are all out dogs with a lack of self-awareness and boundaries, but the allegations in that article are pretty out there even by sleazy standards.
20ag07
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The whole thing is wild.

-The movie did incredibly well at the box office, but the fighting began long before that.
-Lively allegedly delivered final cut, using her own editor, slicing out the director.
-That dude, already, was highly questionable. Backed by some weird cult religion money.
-Not sure who they thought they were messing with at any point, but messing with the wife of one of the richest and most powerful dudes in Hollywood probably ain't gonna work out, regardless of what his hired PR guns told him. She ain't in this one for money.
AustinAg2K
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Madmarttigan said:

I don't know if that's accurate completely there is a ton of Blake Lively hate on reddit. I don't think it's across all social media platforms. That being said people still also think the director is a PoS as well.


Well, according to the lawsuit, the Blake Lively hate was manufactured by the director's PR firm.

I haven't paid any attention to this until now, but it seems like it should be a pretty easy case if Lively is telling the truth. What she is allegeding will have plenty of witnesses and documentation.
rononeill
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I just hope RR is being appropriately supportive through all this.
Petrino1
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Seems like Lively felt fat shamed by Baldoni's comment when he asked his trainer in private how much she weighed due to his back problems, she took major offense to that due to recently having a baby, and then decided to go full scorched earth on him.

Who knows what really happened, but would be curious to hear his side of the story since all we are getting is Lively's side. With that said, they are both coming across pretty bad in this situation.
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This is interesting. My wife told me about some of this yesterday. Seems like…

- the film's story is one of abuse, but (allegedly) Lively wanted it marketed as a romance story and Baldoni wanted it as an abuse/survival story? He's known as a feminist of sorts
- the internet turns on Lively
- She sues him, alleging all kinds of ****ty behavior on set (the article from this thread)
- Texts leak between him and his lawyers, I guess, where he wants to run a PR campaign to destroy her? Maybe the same PR folks as those involved in the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard stuff?


It's an interesting case study in how quick we are to believe the latest news, and the worst about people we generally know nothing about. I'm mildly curious to see where it all lands… but at the same time I've never seen any of their films so I'm pretty unaffected either way. Other than wanting scumbags to be called out for their scumminess, if that's in fact the truth.
bangobango
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Really good NY Times article on this:

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After 'It Ends With Us' - The New York Times

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She detailed her complaints during a meeting with Mr. Baldoni, Mr. Heath and other producers in January, according to the legal filing. She claimed Mr. Baldoni had improvised unwanted kissing and discussed his sex life, including encounters in which he said he may not have received consent. Mr. Heath had shown her a video of his wife naked, she said, and he had watched Ms. Lively in her trailer when she was topless and having body makeup removed, despite her asking him to look away. She said that both men repeatedly entered her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding.

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In an initial planning document sent to Wayfarer and Mr. Baldoni on Aug. 2, Ms. Nathan suggested media talking points, including that Ms. Lively used an imbalance of power to take creative control of the film.
But Mr. Baldoni wanted more.
"Not in love with the document they sent," he responded in a text exchange that included Ms. Abel and Mr. Heath. "Not sure I'm feeling the protection I felt on the call."
Ms. Abel relayed his frustration to Ms. Nathan: "I think you guys need to be tough and show the strength of what you guys can do in these scenarios. He wants to feel like she can be buried."
"Of course- but you know when we send over documents we can't send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble," Ms. Nathan responded, adding, "We can't write we will destroy her."

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Ms. Nathan wrote to Ms. Abel: "And socials are really really ramping up. In his favour, she must be furious. It's actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women."

Baldoni sounds like a real piece of crap. This Melissa Nathan lady makes her money being a terrible person. What a bunch of trash.
oragator
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Apparently, Baldoni thought so much of it that he's suing the NYT for 250 million.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/justin-baldoni-sues-new-york-times-blake-lively-allegations-story-1236263099/
20ag07
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Lol. He's not making $25K off the Times for this, much less $250M.

Lot of talk about "cherry picking" from both sides.
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