Incredibly Messy: Deadline Editor Breaks Down New Lawsuit Against Justin Baldoni Amid Blake Lively Scandal
Deadline executive editor Dominic Patten spoke to CNN about the defamation lawsuit filed against actor Justin Baldoni and his PR team by his former publicist. The lawsuit comes after Baldoni’s co-star Blake Lively filed a complaint alleging misconduct tied to production on their film, “It End With Us.”
Bryan Freedman, an attorney for Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios, denied the allegations in a statement to CNN, calling the claims made by Lively “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media.” Freedman added that it is “shameful” that Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its representatives, which he claims is a desperate attempt to “fix” her negative reputation.