SMEAR CAMPAIGN: "GOSSIP GIRL" BLAKE LIVELY BATTLES CO-STAR JUSTIN BALDONI, SHOCK “SEX” CLAIMS

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A bombshell lawsuit filed by Blake Lively against her co-star and director Justin Baldoni. The lawsuit alleges sexual harassment and claims that Baldoni exhibited behavior that caused her “severe emotional distress”. TMZ reports the lawsuit states there was a meeting attended by individuals including Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, Baldoni and their lawyers, to address Lively's claims as well as other cast and crew members and to reach an agreement on requirements Lively needed to continue working on the film.

Blake Lively is raising concerns not just for herself, but other female cast and crew, some of whom had spoken up. She creates a list of 30 requirements that Justin Baldoni must agree to abide by for her to continue working on "It Ends with Us". The list includes “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction,’ no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew’s genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s dead father.”

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Former Assistant State Attorney, Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, CCEAlaw.com, Facebook: "Darryl B Cohen", Twitter: @DarrylBCohen
Dr. Bethany Marshall Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker: When to work on a relationship and when to walk away” Also featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock www.drbethanymarshall.com/ , Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
Ashley Wardlow - Private Investigator and Chief Operations Officers at Nathans Investigations, website: www.nathans-investigations.com, IG: @miamiprivateinvestigators, FB: nathansinvestigations
Lynn Shaw - Founder and Executive Director of Lynn's Warriors
Rob Shuter - Host: Naughty But Nice Podcast, Former Publicist, Author: "The 4 Word Answer", radaronline.com; IG: @naughtygossip

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0:00.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:06.3	A so-called smear campaign.
0:10.1	Everybody's favorite gossip girl, Blake Lively,
0:13.9	battles her co-star, Justin Beldoni,
0:16.9	after shock, sex harassment claims emerge.
0:21.3	I'm Nancy Grace.
0:22.2	This is Crime Stories.
0:23.5	Thank you for being with us.
0:25.1	Bombshell lawsuit from Hollywood star Blake Lively alleges co-star Justin Baldoni sexually harassed and orchestrated a smear campaign against Lively.
0:35.4	A smear campaign alleged?
0:38.3	A campaign against everyone's favorite gossip girl, Blake, lively.
0:44.2	What we are hearing includes undesired lip biting during sex scenes, sucking on lips, people
0:52.9	barging into her dressing room while she's completely
0:56.1	nude or partially nude or breastfeeding, allowing friends of friends to watch as she is partially
1:05.9	nude performing sex scenes in very vulnerable positions. What happened? Okay, the name of the movie,
1:14.2	it ends with us from Wayfarra and Stoney. Let's just take a peek. Hey, Lily, you want to do the honors?
1:22.1	No, you go ahead. I need to take it in from here. We're just hoping you'd say that. Okay.
1:27.1	Oh, oh, ho brother, Ryle.
1:29.8	The first official customer.
1:33.9	That is from the official It Ends with Us movie trailer from Sony Pictures.
1:38.5	Before we get into the meat of this vicious battle in court, I want to go out to Rob Shooter very quickly, a host of
1:47.3	naughty but nice podcast, former publicist author of The Four Word Answer. Rob, thank you for being
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