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Justin Baldoni to reportedly file counterclaim against Blake Lively

Dispute between It Ends With Us co-stars escalates further with Baldoni’s lawyer claiming lawsuit will ‘shock everyone’

Bryan Freedman, known in Hollywood as “the dark knight”, told Deadline that he would not say when or how many lawsuits he is preparing for Baldoni, also the director of It Ends With Us, whom Lively has accused of sexual harassment and conducting a PR smear campaign against her. Freedman is regarded as a legal street fighter whose past clients include the former Fox news host Megyn Kelly, winning her a reported $69m settlement; Bethenny Frankel, a reality TV personality; Tucker Carlson and others. Carlson, who hired the attorney during a contract dispute with former employer Fox News during the company’s litigation with Dominion Voting Systems, told the outlet: “Every time I read about Bryan, it’s like, ‘When are they letting him out of the cage?’ He’s chewing on his own paw.”

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