{"id":135025,"date":"2024-12-22T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=135025"},"modified":"2024-12-22T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:11:21","slug":"justin-baldoni-is-dropped-by-his-talent-agency-following-lawsuit-from-co-star-blake-lively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/justin-baldoni-is-dropped-by-his-talent-agency-following-lawsuit-from-co-star-blake-lively\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni is dropped by his talent agency following lawsuit from co-star Blake Lively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, news broke that <strong>Justin Baldoni<\/strong>, a 40-year-old actor and director, was dropped by his talent agency WME. This decision coincided with a complaint filed by his &#8220;<strong>It Ends with Us<\/strong>&#8221; co-star, <strong>Blake Lively<\/strong>. She claims Baldoni engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior and launched a significant smear campaign targeting her reputation.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Blake Lively remains represented by <strong>WME<\/strong>, while Baldoni is no longer a client. Since the lawsuit scandal broke out,\u00a0 both parties have made statements regarding the accusations. However, Justin Baldoni&#8217;s official statement came through his lawyer, while Lively seemed to release hers in first person. See it here:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1870522550830444565\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blake Lively releases statement after suing \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 co-star Justin Baldoni for alleged sexual harassment and attempted smear campaign:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tOVj1adBfy\">pic.twitter.com\/tOVj1adBfy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1870522550830444565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, Baldoni allegedly<strong> improvised intimate scenes, added explicit material and made a series of unprofessional remarks during the film\u2019s production<\/strong>. Lively asserts these actions created an uncomfortable work environment and culminated in a defamation campaign against her.<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni\u2019s lawyer, <strong>Bryan Freedman<\/strong>, said Lively\u2019s allegations were false, outrageous, and intentionally hurtful. Freedman claimed her complaint was designed to fix her image from criticism this year. Meanwhile, Lively\u2019s legal team stands by her account, with further proof against Baldoni being released as of December 22, 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1870478849341071388\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justin Baldoni\u2019s Lawyer calls Blake Lively\u2019s lawsuit a \u2018desperate attempt to fix her negative reputation\u2019 and \u2018categorically false\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zy87Z3zSzf\">pic.twitter.com\/zy87Z3zSzf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1870478849341071388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, news broke that Justin Baldoni, a 40-year-old actor and director, was dropped by his talent agency WME. This decision coincided with a complaint filed by his &#8220;It Ends with Us&#8221; co-star, Blake Lively. She claims Baldoni engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior and launched a significant smear campaign targeting her reputation. As of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":135030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135025"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=135025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}