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One other shot has been fired within the ongoing Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal battle.
A PR agency representing Baldoni has now filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to Full of life searching for punitive damages in an quantity of “not lower than $6,000,000.”
The go well with alleges that Full of life broken the popularity of CEO Jed Wallace and his disaster administration agency, Road Relations Inc., when she talked about them in her preliminary civil grievance in opposition to Baldoni.
As Fox News factors out, Full of life didn’t title the events in her formal lawsuit.
However Wallace claims that the actress’ choice to call Wallace and Road Relations in her preliminary grievance with the State of California Civil Rights Division did adequate harm.
The Newest Allegations
“Neither Wallace nor Road had something to do with the alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, failure to research or aiding and abetting the alleged harassment or alleged retaliation,” the lawsuit reads.
“Neither might they’ve breached a contract with Full of life as a result of no such contract exists.”
The go well with goes on to allege that Full of life’s claims “made with both negligence or ‘precise malice’” have triggered “thousands and thousands of {dollars} in reputational hurt together with each common and particular damages via emotional hurt (Wallace), precise damages and actual and projected lack of enterprise (Wallace and Road) in an quantity that exceeds $1,000,000.”
An Ongoing Battle
The authorized wrangling started in December when Lively sued Baldoni for sexual harassment.
Baldoni shortly filed a countersuit accusing Lively of defamation.
The actress responded by alleging that Baldoni was trying to silence her via authorized motion.
Blake’s attorneys continued that line of assault at present, accusing Road and Wallace of trying to attain a victory within the court docket of public opinion.
“One other day, one other state, one other nine-figure lawsuit searching for to sue Ms. Full of life ‘into oblivion’ for talking out in opposition to sexual harassment and retaliation,” reads an announcement from Full of life’s authorized staff.
“This isn’t only a publicity stunt — it’s clear retaliation in response to allegations contained inside a sexual harassment and retaliation grievance that Ms. Full of life filed with the California Civil Rights Division. Whereas this lawsuit will probably be dismissed, we’re happy that Mr. Wallace has lastly emerged from the shadows, and that he too will probably be held accountable in federal court docket.”
Evidently, plainly the struggle between these former co-stars is simply starting.
We’ll have additional updates on this creating story as new info turns into out there.
