{"id":652357,"date":"2025-02-05T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/blake-lively-sued-for-defamation-by-crisis-pr-firm-in-it-ends-with-us-feud\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:08:58","slug":"blake-lively-sued-for-defamation-by-crisis-pr-firm-in-it-ends-with-us-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blake-lively-sued-for-defamation-by-crisis-pr-firm-in-it-ends-with-us-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"#Blake Lively Sued For Defamation by Crisis PR Firm in \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBlake Lively has been sued by a crisis management firm that allegedly played a key role in the legal standoff between her and It Ends With Us <\/em>director-star Justin Baldoni.<\/p>\n

\n\tJed Wallace of Street Relations, in a complaint filed in Texas federal court on Tuesday, accuses Lively of defamation for roping him into the criss-crossing lawsuits, one of which alleged that he created artificial content on social media<\/a> platforms that app<\/a>eared to attack her and defend Baldoni. He seeks at least $7 million and a court order stating that he didn\u2019t engage in harassment or retaliation against the actress.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe move comes after Lively dropped a petition on Tuesday filed in Texas state court last month seeking a court order to depose Wallace, though it may be a precursor to the actress adding him as a defendant to her ongoing lawsuit against Baldoni and his company Wayfarer.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn that filing, Lively accused Wallace of weaponizing a digital army to create and promote content that appeared to be authentic on social media platforms and internet chat forums. Baldoni\u2019s public relations team that allegedly orchestrated the campaign to undermine the actress would then feed pieces of the manufactured content to reporters, with the goal of making it go viral in order to \u201cinfluence public opinion and thereby cause an organic pile-on,\u201d the petition said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnother day, another state, another nine-figure lawsuit seeking to sue Ms. Lively \u2018into oblivion\u2019 for speaking out against sexual harassment and retaliation,\u201d said Lively\u2019s legal team, led by Michael Gottlieb, in a statement. \u201cThis is not just a publicity stunt\u2014it is transparent retaliation in response to allegations contained within a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint that Ms. Lively filed with the California Civil Rights Department. While this lawsuit will be dismissed, we are pleased that Mr. Wallace has finally emerged from the shadows, and that he too will be held accountable in federal court.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWallace\u2019s lawsuit faults Lively for naming him in the petition and complaint she filed with the California Civil Rights Department, which accused him of illegal harassment and retaliation, that sparked the feud without evidence. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs Lively later admitted she knew of no facts to support the allegations,\u201d writes Charles Babcock, a lawyer for Wallace, in the complaint. \u201cNeither Wallace nor Street had anything to do with the alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, failure to investigate or aiding and abetting the alleged harassment or alleged retaliation. Neither could they have breached a contract with Lively because no such contract exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWallace \u2014 who described himself as a \u201chired gun\u201d and purported to have a \u201cproprietary formula for defining artists and trends,\u201d per Lively\u2019s petition \u2014 was retained on behalf of Baldoni and his company Wayfarer, who also brought on veteran crisis PR exec Melissa Nathan of The Agency Group (Nathan is named in Lively\u2019s lawsuit). A text from Nathan to Jennifer Abel, another PR rep for Baldoni, cited in the filing stated, \u201cCan I start a Signal thread with you, me and Jed,\u201d implicating him in the alleged smear campaign initiated by the It Ends With Us<\/em> director.<\/p>\n

\n\tLively detailed efforts by Wallace to \u201cseed and influence online forums\u201d on Reddit attacking her and defending Baldoni. Nathan didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Blake Lively has been sued by a crisis management firm that allegedly played a key role in the legal standoff between her and It Ends With Us director-star Justin Baldoni. Jed Wallace of Street Relations, in a complaint filed in Texas federal court on Tuesday, accuses Lively of defamation for roping him into the criss-crossing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MCDITEN_SP026-H-2025.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[60019,138992],"class_list":["post-652357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-blake-lively","tag-justin-baldoni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}