Justin Baldoni has amended his counterclaim suit against Blake Lively, which names Ryan Reynolds, The New York Times, and others as defendants, and claims Lively and her PR team colluded with the Times for months to smear him. Baldoni directed and co-starred with Lively in It Ends With Us.
Baldoni’s lawyers filed the 224-page amended counterclaim on Friday, and a website, which launched on Saturday, hosts the complaint as well as a timeline.
Among the new allegations, it claims that Lively’s complaint against Baldoni was filed only after Lively and her team “spent months feeding falsehoods to the New York Times.” It alleges that the paper had access to Lively’s civil rights lawsuit at least 11 days prior to The Times report entitled “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine,” published on Dec. 21. The report accused Baldoni and his publicists…
