We're back with the second phase of this Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, saga, everything.

So the reading today is of the lawsuit where the plaintiffs are Wayfarer, Justin Baldoni, Jamie Heath, Steve Sorowitz,

who's the billionaire that if you've been following along, you may have heard about,

who's involved with Wayfarer, Melissa Nathan, one of the PR agency, or one of the public relations people, PR people.

The agency group, Jen Abel, RWA Communications, Jed Wallace, and Street Relations.

So they're collectively suing the New York Times.

So this was the lawsuit that was filed, I believe it was New Year's Eve, following the complaint that

Blake lively or someone from her camp released to New York Times.

So we will start at the introduction.

At 9.46 a.m. on Friday, December 20, 20, 2024, New York Times reporter Megan Tui,

requested plaintiff's response to an imminent 4,000-word bombshell story concerning their alleged orchestration of a smear campaign targeting Blake Lively, purportedly in response to Lively's disclosure of concerns about the working environment on the set of It Ends with Us.

The film's production company Wayfarer, its principles,

Baldonian Heath, and its public relations representatives Nathan and Abel, were asked to provide,

quote, on the record comment and to notify the times of any inaccuracies by noon the next day on

December 21, 2024, a mere 14 hours overnight.

Plaintiff's representatives promptly denied Lively's accusations as reported by the Times

and criticized both Lively and the Times reliance on cherry-picked and altered communications

stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.

Despite its claim to have reviewed these along with other documents,

the Times relied almost entirely on lively's unverified and self-serving narrative, lifting it

nearly verbatim while disregarding an abundance of evidence that contradicted her claims and exposed

her true motives. But the Times did not care. Given the breadth of the article and the coordinated drop, it is readily apparent that the Times had been quietly working in concert with Lively's team for weeks or months.

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