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One other shot has been fired within the ongoing Blake Vigorous-Justin Baldoni authorized battle.
A PR agency representing Baldoni has now filed a defamation lawsuit towards Vigorous searching for punitive damages in an quantity of “not less than $6,000,000.”
The swimsuit alleges that Vigorous broken the repute of CEO Jed Wallace and his disaster administration agency, Avenue Relations Inc., when she talked about them in her preliminary civil criticism towards Baldoni.
As Fox Information factors out, Vigorous didn’t title the events in her formal lawsuit.
However Wallace claims that the actress’ choice to call Wallace and Avenue Relations in her preliminary criticism with the State of California Civil Rights Division did ample harm.
The Newest Allegations
“Neither Wallace nor Street had anything to do with the alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, failure to investigate or aiding and abetting the alleged harassment or alleged retaliation,” the lawsuit reads.
“Neither could they have breached a contract with Lively because no such contract exists.”
The swimsuit goes on to allege that Vigorous’s claims “made with either negligence or ‘actual malice’” have precipitated “millions of dollars in reputational harm including both general and special damages through emotional harm (Wallace), actual damages and real and projected loss of business (Wallace and Street) in an amount that exceeds $1,000,000.”
An Ongoing Battle
The authorized wrangling started in December when Vigorous sued Baldoni for sexual harassment.
Baldoni shortly filed a countersuit accusing Vigorous of defamation.
The actress responded by alleging that Baldoni was making an attempt to silence her by way of authorized motion.
Blake’s attorneys continued that line of assault at present, accusing Avenue and Wallace of making an attempt to attain a victory within the courtroom of public opinion.
“Another day, another state, another nine-figure lawsuit seeking to sue Ms. Lively ‘into oblivion’ for speaking out against sexual harassment and retaliation,” reads a press release from Vigorous’s authorized group.
“This is not just a publicity stunt — it is transparent retaliation in response to allegations contained within a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint that Ms. Lively filed with the California Civil Rights Department. While this lawsuit will be dismissed, we are pleased that Mr. Wallace has finally emerged from the shadows, and that he too will be held accountable in federal court.”
For sure, evidently the struggle between these former co-stars is simply starting.
We’ll have additional updates on this creating story as new info turns into accessible.
