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Blake Lively Hires Former CIA Advisor as Crisis Manager Amid Legal Battle


Blake Lively hired former CIA employee Nick Shapiro as a PR crisis manager amid her ongoing legal battle against Justin Baldoni

This news comes days after Lively alleged that Baldoni and his team have displayed “disregard and disrespect” for her as a woman “advocating for the most basic workplace protections against sexual harassment” in a new filing obtained by Us. Attorney Mitchell Schuster accused the actress of attempting to “rehabilitate her tarnished image with bold statements to the press” per the letter obtained by Deadline and said that Lively “already publicized the alleged details of the so-called ‘harassment.’” Baldoni has vehemently denied all of Lively’s claims, suing her along with her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and publicist Leslie Sloane(who has filed a motion to remove herself from the lawsuit) for $400 million.

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