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Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds Are Ari Emanuel’s “Ride Or Die”; Endeavor CEO Gives Power Couple Full-Throated Support In Justin Baldoni Battle
No one doubted that Ari Emanuel would have something to say about the Blake Lively & Juston Baldoni Battle, & He Sure Did On Thursday Night
Bluntly calling what allegedly went down during production of the Sony distributed IEWU and the online smear campaign that Lively says Baldoni, Crisis PR chief Melissa Nathan and their minions subjected her to “a fucked up, bad situation,” the TKO exec also told host Stephen Dubner that it was he who personally dumped the Jane the Virgin vet from WME on December 21. “I fired him,” Emanuel proclaimed of Baldoni’s pink slipping from his then agency, as Deadline reported, one day after Lively filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint with California’s Civil Rights Department. Reported at length in the New York Times expose ‘We Can Bury Anyone: Inside A Hollywood Smear Campaign’, the CRD filing was a prelude to the lawsuit Lively hit Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, its CEO, financier, and publicists Nathan and Jennifer Abel with on New Year’s Eve.
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