Justin Baldoni's team has launched a caller website amid his ongoing ineligible conflict with "It Ends With Us" co-star Blake Lively.
The website, thelawsuitinfo.com, which was published Saturday, featured a landing leafage with links to 2 PDF files, including a transcript of a recently amended ailment that the 41-year-old histrion filed against the 37-year-old histrion and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and different papers with a 168-page "timeline of applicable events" that showcased caller emails and texts related to the case.
Both documents were filed Friday successful New York national tribunal up of the case's archetypal hearing, which is scheduled for Monday.
Justin Baldoni has launched a website amid his ongoing ineligible conflict with Blake Lively. (Getty)
Lively has claimed she was sexually harassed connected the acceptable of "It Ends With Us" and filed a suit against Baldoni, his Wayfarer workplace and erstwhile PR representatives successful December. The aforesaid time Lively filed her suit, Baldoni filed a $250 cardinal suit against The New York Times for a December nonfiction astir Lively's suit and the alleged smear run Baldoni attempted to tally against his co-star.
Weeks later, Baldoni past named Lively and Reynolds successful a abstracted $400 cardinal defamation lawsuit successful which helium accused the Hollywood powerfulness mates of attempting to hijack "It Ends With Us" and make their ain narrative.
Baldoni's amended ailment alleged Lively had been moving with The New York Times weeks earlier the nonfiction was published successful December.
Baldoni is suing Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for $400 million. (Cindy Ord)
The documents stated that metadata embedded wrong The New York Times nonfiction indicated the outlet "had already begun gathering its defamatory Article nary aboriginal than October 31, 2024."
The suit claimed that "careful observers reported that viewing the HTML root codification for the Article revealed references to a 'message-embed-generator' that referred [to a] day of ‘2024-10-31.’"
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According to the documents, The New York Times created a instrumentality to show Lively's texts successful the nonfiction Oct. 31, which Baldoni's ineligible squad suggested was grounds the communicative was archetypal generated connected oregon earlier that date.
"It whitethorn look unsurprising and adjacent respectable that a quality enactment should enactment for weeks oregon months earlier publishing a purported investigative report," the documents say.
"But the value of the timing of these elements of the defamatory Article is that they portion distant the ineligible shields that Lively, the Times, and the different Lively Parties were apt relying connected to support their malicious acts of defamation, specified arsenic the litigation privilege and the just reporting privilege."
Baldoni's caller website includes his amended suit and a "timeline of applicable events." (Nathan Congleton)
In a connection to Fox News Digital, Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, addressed the amended complaint.
"The determination to amend our suit was a logical adjacent measurement owed to the overwhelming magnitude of caller impervious that has travel to light," Freedman said.
"This caller grounds corroborates what we knew each along, that owed to a unsighted pursuit of power, Ms. Lively and her full squad colluded for months to destruct reputations done a analyzable web of lies, mendacious accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications.
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"The ongoing nationalist involvement successful this lawsuit online has ironically shed airy connected the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and however heavy Ms. Lively and her representatives were not lone profoundly progressive successful the attempted takedown and smear run of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it."
The lawsuit heads to tribunal Monday. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
In a connection to Fox News Digital, The New York Times Company's representative, Danielle Rhoades Ha, pushed backmost against claims made successful the amended lawsuit.
"The Baldoni/Wayfarer ineligible filings are rife with inaccuracies astir The New York Times, including, for example, the bogus assertion that The Times had aboriginal entree to Ms. Lively's authorities civilian rights complaint," she said.
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"Mr. Baldoni's lawyers basal their erroneous assertion connected postings by amateur net sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are wrong. The sleuths person noted that a mentation of the Lively authorities ailment published by The Times carries the day 'December 10' adjacent though the complaint wasn't filed until much than a week later. The problem: that day is generated by Google bundle and is unrelated to the day erstwhile The Times received it and posted it."
Representatives for Lively did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
Ashley Hume is an amusement writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and connected Twitter: @ashleyhume