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Slamming Justin Baldoni’s “Smoke & Mirrors Exercise,” Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds’ PR Chief Wants Out Of ‘It Ends With Us’ Legal Battle
Top PR Rep Leslie Sloane wants out of the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni legal saga, but still very much on Team Blake a new filing reveals
“The Wayfarer Parties dragged Leslie Sloane and Vision PR, Inc. into the instant litigation as a smoke and mirrors exercise to distract from their own sexual harassment and systematic retaliation,” asserts a accompanying memo to a motion to dismiss Sloane and Vision PR from the latest version of Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion lawsuit filed today in federal court. “The Amended Complaint does not—and cannot—identify anything Ms. Sloane did that comes anywhere close to the damning communications between Baldoni and his own publicists concerning an explicit campaign to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ the woman employee who accused him of sexual harassment,” the document from Sloane’s Bois Schiller Flexner lawyers goes on to say with a writ flip of sorts on to Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, CEO Jamey Heath, their backer and their own PR team lead by Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel. With both sides also rejecting mediation from the court and telling Judge Lewis J. Liman that hopes of a settlement are essentially a non-starter, the media smorgasbord that this has become is set to go to trial in NYC on March 29, 2026.
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