Breaking News: Justin Baldoni Files $250 Million Lawsuit Over Blake Lively Story, Accuses Ryan Reynolds of Mistreatment…see more

Baldoni’s lawsuit points to this misrepresentation as one example of false information that was reported about him in the story.

In suing the outlet, the actor and filmmaker was joined by 9 other plaintiffs, including publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, as well as It Ends With Us producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz.

They are suing for libel and false light invasion of privacy with the assertion that the publication “‘cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”

The complaint also includes allegations of promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract. According to Baldoni and the other plaintiffs, it was actually Lively who’d embarked on a “strategic and manipulative” smear campaign against him rather than the other way around.

Lively’s allegations against Baldoni included claims of sexual harassment. To this, the suit claims that Lively fabricated “sexual harassment allegations to assert unilateral control over every aspect of the production.”