Lively Shares ‘Gratitude’ After Baldoni’s Lawsuit Is Dismissed
The post Lively Shares ‘Gratitude’ After Baldoni’s Lawsuit Is Dismissed appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. June 9, 2025Lively said she and the 19 women’s groups that backed her in court “stood proudly” in “defending women’s rights to speak up for their safety,” stating she felt the “pain of a retaliatory lawsuit” and the “manufactured shame that tries to break us,” hours after a judge dismissed Baldoni’s defamation and extortion lawsuit filed against her. June 9, 2025Judge Lewis Liman dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds and his $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times, after Baldoni alleged they each conspired in a “vitriolic smear campaign” to end his career—Lively’s attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb celebrated Liman’s ruling as a “total victory and a complete vindication.” Liman ruled Baldoni did not allege Lively was responsible for comments made outside of her civil suit against him, which are “privileged,” while Reynolds, Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloan and the Times published or made other statements about Baldoni they believed were true “based on the information available to them.” June 4, 2025In a new amicus curiae brief, 14 women’s rights groups, including the National Organization for Women and its New York City chapter, the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, supported Lively’s claims of sexual harassment against Baldoni while accusing him of using the “DARVO” tactic—deny, attack, reverse victim and offender—to smear and silence Lively. Lively’s legal team has portrayed Baldoni—who has advocated for women throughout has career, including in a viral Ted Talk in 2017—as turning his back on his feminist beliefs: “Baldoni is now contradicting years of his own public persona,” Lively’s legal team told Forbes in a statement, citing Baldoni’s legal team’s attempt to challenge the amicus briefs. June 2, 2025Baldoni’s lawyers said in a legal filing Lively’s counsel informed them she has requested to withdraw…
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June 9, 2025Lively said she and the 19 women’s groups that backed her in court “stood proudly” in “defending women’s rights to speak up for their safety,” stating she felt the “pain of a retaliatory lawsuit” and the “manufactured shame that tries to break us,” hours after a judge dismissed Baldoni’s defamation and extortion lawsuit filed against her. June 9, 2025Judge Lewis Liman dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds and his $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times, after Baldoni alleged they each conspired in a “vitriolic smear campaign” to end his career—Lively’s attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb celebrated Liman’s ruling as a “total victory and a complete vindication.” Liman ruled Baldoni did not allege Lively was responsible for comments made outside of her civil suit against him, which are “privileged,” while Reynolds, Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloan and the Times published or made other statements about Baldoni they believed were true “based on the information available to them.” June 4, 2025In a new amicus curiae brief, 14 women’s rights groups, including the National Organization for Women and its New York City chapter, the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, supported Lively’s claims of sexual harassment against Baldoni while accusing him of using the “DARVO” tactic—deny, attack, reverse victim and offender—to smear and silence Lively. Lively’s legal team has portrayed Baldoni—who has advocated for women throughout has career, including in a viral Ted Talk in 2017—as turning his back on his feminist beliefs: “Baldoni is now contradicting years of his own public persona,” Lively’s legal team told Forbes in a statement, citing Baldoni’s legal team’s attempt to challenge the amicus briefs. June 2, 2025Baldoni’s lawyers said in a legal filing Lively’s counsel informed them she has requested to withdraw…
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