July 17, 2025
Baldoni vs. Lively - "DIGITAL ASSASSINS: Blake Lively's $400M War Against Hollywood's Revenge Machine"
How a sexual harassment complaint exploded into the most vicious celebrity legal battle in Hollywood history. Reid Carter exposes the alleged "astroturfing" campaign designed to destroy Blake Lively's reputation, featuring crisis PR specialists, coordinated influencer attacks, and Johnny Depp's former publicists. From Justin Baldoni's shocking $400 million countersuit to its spectacular courtroom collapse, discover how modern reputation warfare really works. With subpoenas flying to Perez Hilton and Candace Owens, and Lively's make-or-break deposition set for today, this is digital age justice at its most ruthless. When Hollywood's revenge machine targets you, survival isn't guaranteed.
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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, and welcome
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back to Celebrity Trials. Today, Blake Lively will walk into
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a conference room in New York City for what could
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be the most important few hours of her career. Her
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deposition in the Justin Baldoni case isn't just about sexual harassment.
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It's about something far more sinister, a coordinated campaign to
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destroy her reputation that reads like a Hollywood thriller, except
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the victims are real and the stakes are a woman's
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career and livelihood. Yesterday we explored how It Ends with
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Us went from passion project to toxic workplace. Today we're
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diving into what happened next, how a sexual harassment complaint
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exploded into a four hundred million dollar legal war that
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makes the Johnny Deppen Amber Heard Battle look like a
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warm up act. This is the story of how modern
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reputation warfare works, how crisis pr has become a weapon
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of mass destruction, and how two celebrities turned the American
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legal system into their personal battlefield. Because in twenty twenty five,
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when someone accuses you of misconduct, you don't just deny it.
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You try to destroy them. So completely that no one
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will ever believe them, and Blake Lively is about to
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learn that the hardest part of speaking up isn't finding
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your voice, it's surviving what happens when powerful people decide
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to silence you. For months, after It Ends with Us
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wrapped production and dominated the box office, both Blake Lively
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and Justin Baldoni maintained their professional facades. They did their
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separate press tours, avoided appearing together, and let the rumor
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mill do what rumor mills do, speculate wildly about what
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really happened. But behind the scenes, things were escalating because,
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according to Lively's legal team, Baldoni and his associates weren't
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content to just move on from the production. They were
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allegedly planning something much more strategic and much more devastating.
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December twentieth, twenty twenty four, Blake Lively decided she'd stayed
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quiet long enough. That's the day she filed a complaint
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with the California Civil Rights Department, formally accusing Justin Baldoni
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of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment during
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the filming of It Ends with Us. But this wasn't
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just about inappropriate behavior. On set. Lively also alleged something
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that would transform this from a typical Hollywood harassment case
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into something unprecedented, a coordinated retaliation campaign designed to destroy
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her reputation. According to her complaint, mister Baldoni and his
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Wayfarer associates embarked on a sophisticated press and digital plan
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in retaliation for miss Lively's complaints about his conduct. Now,
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let me explain what this means in plain England. Lively
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wasn't just saying that Baldoni behaved inappropriately on set. She
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was alleging that when she complained about that behavior, he
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and his team launched what's essentially a modern warfare campaign
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against her reputation, using social media influencers and crisis PR
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firms to make her look like the problem. This allegation
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caught the attention of The New York Times, which launched
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its own investigation, and what they found was stunning. The
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Times reported on December twenty first that they had obtained
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thousands of pages of text messages, emails, and other communications
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that allegedly showed a coordinated effort to damage Lively's public image.
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These weren't just casual conversations between friends. These were strategic
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communications between Baldoni, his publicists, and crisis management specialists about
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how to protect Baldoni by making Lively look unreliable, difficult,
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and vindictive. The Times described what they called an astroturfing campaign,
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the practice of making coordinated messaging look like organic grassroots opinion.
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Think of it as the difference between actual public sentiment
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and manufactured public sentiment designed to look real. According to
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the reporting, this campaign allegedly involved hiring crisis pr specialist
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Melissa Nathan, Yes, the same Melissa Nathan who worked with
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Johnny Depp during his successful defamation case against Amber Heard.
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Nathan and her team allegedly worked with publicist Jennifer Abel
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and crisis guru Matthew Hiltsick to implement what Lively's lawyers
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describe as a sophisticated plan to discredit her. Here's how
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modern reputation warfare works, folks. You don't just deny the
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allegations against you. You flip the script entirely. You make
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the accuser look like the real problem. You question their motives,
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their credibility, their mental state. You suggest they're doing this
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for attention, for money, for revenge. And if you do
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it using a network of seemingly independent voices, podcasters, influencers,
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social media personalities who all happen to be saying very
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similar things about your accuser. The goal isn't just to
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defend yourself, it's to make the accuser regret ever speaking
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up in the first place. But Blake Lively wasn't backing down.
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On December thirty first, twenty twenty four, she formalized her
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California complaint into a federal lawsuit filed in New York,
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turning up the legal heat significantly. And that's when Justin
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Baldoni made a decision that would either vindicate him completely
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or destroy him utterly. He decided to fight back with
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everything he had. January sixteenth, twenty twenty five, Justin Baldoni's
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legal team filed what can only be described as a
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nuclear option, a four hundred million dollar lawsuit against Blake Lively,
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Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist, Leslie Sloane. Four hundred million
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million dollars. Let me put that in perspective for you,
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that's more than some country's GDP. That's by a small
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island money. That's I'm going to destroy you so completely
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that your great grandchildren will still be paying lawyers money.
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The allegations in Baldoni's countersuit were explosive. He accused Lively
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of extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy. But more than that,
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he painted a picture of Lively as a manipulative diva
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who had essentially hijacked his film and was now trying
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to destroy his career with false accusations. According to Baldoni's lawsuit,
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Lively had robbed him and Wayfarer Studios of control of
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It Ends with Us. The suit claimed she had made
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wrong headed creative decisions that reflected her fundamental lack of
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understanding of the book, and had inserted herself into the
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production process in intrusive ways. But here's where it gets
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really interesting. Baldoni's team ledge that Lively never even read
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the book the movie was based on. Think about that
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for a moment. Their claiming the star of a film
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about domestic violence didn't bother to read the source material
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about domestic violence. It's either a devastating indictment of Lively's
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professionalism or a desperate attempt to undermine her credibility. The
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lawsuit also made serious allegations about that January fourth, twenty
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twenty four, meeting we discussed in yesterday's episode. Remember, Lively's
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team characterized this as an emergency meeting to address a
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hostile work environment, but Baldoni's lawyers painted it very differently.
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According to their version, Baldoni and his team went to
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Blake and Ryan's penthouse expecting a normal production meeting. Instead,
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they were allegedly blindsided by what they describe as a
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list of demands that amounted to extortion. They claim, Ryan
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Reynolds launched into a tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni
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later described as a traumatic encounter. Now we haven't heard
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Ryan Reynolds's side of this story yet, but the idea
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that Deadpool himself traumatized someone with his words is either
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very serious or very ironic, depending on your perspective. But
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Baldoni wasn't done. His legal team also filed a separate
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two hundred and fifty million dollar libel lawsuit against The
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New York Times for their investigative reporting on the alleged
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smear campaign. They accused the Times of running false and
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defamatory stories and essentially acting as Lively's mouthpiece. So let's
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do the math here. Baldoni was simultaneously claiming that Lively
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had falsely accused him of harassment, extorted him for creative control,
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defamed his reputation, and somehow convinced The New York Times
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to publish lies about him. According to his legal theory,
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Blake Lively was essentially a criminal mastermind who had orchestrated
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an elaborate conspiracy against him. The response from Lively's legal
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team was swift and brutal. They called Baldoni's lawsuit desperate
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and predicted it will fail. But more importantly, they doubled
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down on their original allegations, suggesting that the four hundred
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million dollar lawsuit was itself proof of the retaliation campaign
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they had accused Baldoni of running. Meanwhile, Hollywood was picking sides.
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Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Schumer, Paul Feig, Caitlin Olsen, and interestingly,
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Amber Heard all voiced support for Lively. The fact that
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Amber Heard, who lost her own defamation case against Johnny Depp,
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was supporting Lively wasn't lost on anyone following this story.
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But here's what's fascinating about the celebrity support. These weren't
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just random statements of solidarity. These were strategic moves by
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people who understood that this case could set precedents for
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how harassment allegations are handled in Hollywood. Going forward, back
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in a moment, Welcome back to sele celebrity trials. I'm
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Red Carter, and we're examining how the Blake Lively and
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Justin Baldoni legal war became a test case for post
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me to justice. So there we were in early twenty
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twenty five, two massive lawsuits, hundreds of millions of dollars
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in damages being sought, and two careers hanging in the balance.
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Both sides had hired the most expensive lawyers money could buy.
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Both sides were leaking to friendly media outlets. Both sides
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were absolutely convinced they were going to win. But sometimes
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the legal system has a way of cutting through all
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the noise and getting to the truth. And on June ninth,
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twenty twenty five, Federal Judge Lewis J. Lyman did exactly
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that in a decision that sent shockwaves through Hollywood. Judge
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Lyman dismissed Justin Baldoni's entire four hundred million dollar lawsuit
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against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Not part of it,
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not some of it, all of it. The judge's reasoning
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was dea devastating to Baldoni's case. He ruled that lively
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Sexual harassment allegations were legally protected under California law, specifically
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legislation passed in the wake of the Number Me Too movement.
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In other words, the law specifically protects people who make
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harassment complaints from being sued for defamation simply for making
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those complaints. Judge Lyman wrote, even if they turn out
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to be unneeded, an employee can insist on protections at
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workplace for sexual harassment without being accused of extortion. If
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an employer exceedes, it cannot later claim to be a
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victim of the employee's wrongful threats. Translation, you can't agree
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to harassment protections during production and then later claim you
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were extorted into agreeing to them. The judge also dismissed
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Baldoni's lawsuit against The New York Times, ruling that the
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alleged facts indicate that the Times reviewed the available evidence
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and reported, perhaps in a dramatized manner, believed to have happened.
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The Times had no obvious motive to favor Lively's version
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of events. In legal terms, this was a complete victory
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for Lively. In practical terms, it was a humiliation for Baldoni.
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But here's where the story takes another unexpected turn. Baldoni's
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legal team had until June twenty third to amend their
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claims and refile the lawsuit standard procedure when a case
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gets dismissed, you fix the problems and try again. Instead,
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Baldoni's team announced they weren't going to refile at all.
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They were giving up on the four hundred million dollar
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lawsuit entirely. Now. This is either a sign that they
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realized their case was hopeless, or it's a strategic retreat
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while they pursue what they cryptically called additional legal options.
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Either way, it was a stunning reversal for a legal
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team that had been talking tough just weeks earlier. Lively's
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response was swift and pointed. In a statement, her lawyers
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called the judge's decision a total victory and a complete
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vindication and describe I've the four hundred million dollar lawsuit
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as a sham that the court saw right through. But
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Lively herself got more personal. She posted on Instagram about
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the pain of a retaliatory lawsuit and said she was
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more resolved than ever to continue to stand for every
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woman's right to have a voice in protecting themselves. But
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if you thought the dismissal of Baldoni's lawsuit meant this
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story was over, you'd be wrong, because Blake Lively's legal
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team was just getting started. In the weeks following their
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courtroom victory, Lively's lawyers launched what can only be described
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as a digital archaeology project. They began serving subpoenas to
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media personalities and influencers who had been particularly vocal in
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their criticism of Lively during the height of the controversy.
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Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger who had built a career
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on Hollywood Gossip, received a subpoena. Candace Owens, the conservative
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political commentator who had weighed in on the case, got
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one too, So did Andy Signora, a YouTube personality who
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had covered the story extensively. Now you might wonder why
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Lively's team was going after people who aren't even parties
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to the lawsuit. The answer lies in her original allegation
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about the coordinated smear campaign. Her lawyers are trying to
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prove that these seemingly independent voices were actually part of
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an orchestrated effort to damage her reputation. Think about it.
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If you can show that multiple influencers and media personalities
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all started saying very similar things about Blake Lively at
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the same time, and those talking points happened to align
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with a crisis pr strategy, you might have evidence of coordination.
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This is modern legal warfare, folks. It's not enough to
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win the main case. You have to expose the entire
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apparatus that was allegedly working against you. The subpoenas are
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asking for all communications between these media figures and Baldoni's team.
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They want to see text messages, emails, payment records, anything
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that might show cored nation or compensation for favorable coverage.
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And here's what makes this particularly interesting. None of these
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people were required to participate in this alleged campaign. If
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they were truly offering independent commentary, they have nothing to hide.
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But if they were being fed talking points or compensated
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for their coverage, that's a very different story, which brings
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us to today, when Blake Lively will finally have to
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answer questions under oath about all of these allegations. Depositions
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aren't trials, but they're often more important than trials. In
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a deposition, there's no jury to perform, for no judge
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to appeal to. It's just the witness, the lawyers and
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a court reporter taking down every word, and perjury laws
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apply just as much in depositions as they do in courtrooms.
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Brian Friedman, Baldoni's lawyer, has made it clear what he
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plans to do during this deposition. In a June interview
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with TMZ, he said, I'm going to ask her questions
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under penalty of perjury, and she's going to have to
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