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Justin Baldoni Says Blake Lively’s Publicist Leslie Sloane Made Him Scapegoat For Client’s “Woes” And Shouldn’t Be Permitted To Exit Case
Blake Lively's longtime publicist Leslie Sloane wants out of her client's legal battle with Justin Baldoni. The It Ends With Us director says No Way
“On information and belief, the Sloane Parties worked for months to drop breadcrumbs and hints of sinister allegations to the public while secretly feeding defamatory falsehoods to any reporter who would listen, including Megan Twohey of the New York Times,” the document adds with a swipe at the Gray Lady’s December 21 article ‘We Can Bury Anyone: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.’ Centering on Lively’s December 20 sexual harassment and smear campaign claiming complaint to California’s Civil Rights department, the NYT piece saw the paper itself sued by Team Baldoni for $250 million on New Year’s Eve. Long repped by Sloane, Lively declared that a vicious social media campaign was set up against her by Nathan’s TAG firm and Abel in the lead up to IEWU’ s August 2024 debut to defang possible stories of alleged misconduct by Baldoni and others on the Sony-distributed domestic violence film. The blast radius of that alleged coordinated online attack was to derail Lively’s new Blake Brown Beauty hair product launch – – a hit mentioned in the actress’ filings but that has often been downplayed in the frenzy of the past few months.
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