Amidst the back-and-forth lawsuits between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, expertise company WME is leaping in to refute one declare specifically: that they dropped Baldoni from their consumer roster on the behest of Energetic and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. WME did drop Baldoni, per The Hollywood Reporter, after Energetic filed her lawsuit alleging sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us. However it was not as a result of Energetic and Reynolds (who’re additionally purchasers of the company) pressured them to take action, in accordance with a brand new assertion.
In his lawsuit towards The New York Occasions, Baldoni alleges that Reynolds approached his WME agent on the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere and urged the agent to drop Baldoni as a consumer. “Baldoni and Wayfarer grew more and more afraid of what Energetic and Reynolds had been able to, as their actions appeared aimed toward destroying Baldoni’s profession and private life,” the swimsuit alleges.
In response, WME stated plainly that this declare is “not true.” Within the assertion, published in THR, WME stated, “Baldoni’s former consultant was not on the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere nor was there any stress from Reynolds or Energetic at any time to drop Baldoni as a consumer.”
In her personal lawsuit, Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on set and additional claimed that he launched into a PR marketing campaign to destroy her status—which is what Baldoni is now accusing Energetic of doing to him. According to People, Baldoni is suing The New York Occasions for “libel, false gentle invasion of privateness, promissory fraud, and breach of implied-in-fact contract.”
Learn extra in regards to the controversy and ensuing lawsuits here.
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