Blake Vigorous's attorneys are accusing Justin Baldoni and his authorized staff of misconduct as their ongoing authorized battle continues.
In response to courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, October 23, Vigorous's authorized staff alleged Baldoni, 41, and different defendants “have hid the ball at each flip within the discovery course of, both failing to provide paperwork or improperly cloaking them within the attorney-client privilege.”
“Now that the mud has settled, and reality discovery and depositions have closed, two issues are clear,” Vigorous's staff acknowledged of their submitting. “There may be substantial proof that the retaliatory marketing campaign was, the truth is, applied as deliberate.”
Vigorous's staff additionally alleged that the defendants “destroyed and/or did not protect or produce further materials and extremely related proof, the absence of which they intend to attempt to unjustly exploit of their favor.”
With their newest submitting, Vigorous's staff is asking the courtroom to sanction Baldoni's staff by stopping them from telling a jury that they didn't execute an alleged retaliatory marketing campaign. One other hope from Vigorous's aspect is {that a} choose informs the jury that Baldoni's aspect allegedly destroyed and did not protect proof, and that the jury could assume that the proof would have been dangerous for his or her case.
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Vigorous's authorized groups for extra remark.
Whereas Vigorous's staff has questioned the place communications via Sign and voice memos are, Baldoni and different defendants didn't obtain a litigation maintain till December 2024.
A supply additionally revealed to Us that Baldoni's staff was not utilizing sign messages in August of 2024, which is the time Vigorous's staff alleges that Baldoni and his staff “anticipated litigation.”
Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photos
Vigorous, 38, and Baldoni's authorized drama started in December 2024, when the actress accused her It Ends With Us costar and director of sexual harassment, making a hostile work setting and purposefully making a smear marketing campaign towards her. (Baldoni has constantly denied all of the allegations.)
Vigorous's lawsuit included “1000's of pages of textual content messages and emails” that the Gossip Lady alum obtained via a subpoena. The actress' staff alleged {that a} publicist working with the studio and Baldoni allegedly wrote to a disaster administration knowledgeable, “He desires to really feel like she might be buried.”
“This plan went nicely past customary disaster PR,” the docs acknowledged.
Baldoni strongly denied the allegations and countersued Vigorous. In June, a choose dismissed his lawsuit towards the actress.
“The Courtroom's choice on the movement to dismiss has no impact in anyway on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear marketing campaign, and it doesn't in any means have an effect on our vigorous protection towards Ms. Vigorous's claims,” Baldoni's legal professional mentioned in an announcement to Us on the time. “Discovery is continuing and we're assured that we'll prevail towards these factually baseless accusations. As an alternative of revising the prevailing claims, our purchasers can be pursuing further authorized choices which might be obtainable to us.”
Blake Vigorous suffered a small setback in courtroom after a choose denied her effort to acquire communications despatched by Justin Baldoni's authorized staff to content material creators or the press about her, Us Weekly can affirm. On Monday, August 4, a New York federal choose dominated on the movement filed by Baldoni's lawyer's agency Liner Freedman […]
In a separate dialog with podcast host Matthew Belloni, Baldoni's legal professional additionally claimed his consumer didn't need damaging consideration directed at Vigorous.
“Justin wasn't completely satisfied about something that might be damaging about Blake, concerning the film, about him or something, Bryan Freedman mentioned on a March episode of “The Town” podcast. “This wasn't nearly him or simply about her, this was concerning the mission they had been engaged on collectively.”
Vigorous's case towards Baldoni is tentatively scheduled to go to trial in March 2026.
