Blake Lively Secretly Sued Justin Baldoni Through a Company

Each new chapter we learn about the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni surprises us more than the last. Intrigues and private messages pile up one after another, turning the case into a soap opera that will be brought to the small screen in a docuseries. The latest plot twist dates back to the early stages of the process and involves a lawsuit that the actress allegedly filed against the director through a shell company to secretly access a series of documents.

But let's start from the beginning. Until now, we knew that Ryan Reynolds' wife had sued Justin Baldoni for workplace and sexual harassment at the end of 2024. Weeks later, the director and co-star of 'Breaking the Circle' responded with a countersuit for workplace harassment and defamation against the actress and her husband, which he later expanded to include his former publicist. The novelty lies in the fact that, before all that, Lively had maneuvered to obtain information without revealing her identity.

The Daily Mail has revealed that the actress was behind the lawsuit filed by the company Vazan at the end of September 2024 to gain access to the text messages of Justin Baldoni's publicist, Stephanie Jones, without his or his team's knowledge. It was an anonymous court request filed with the Manhattan Supreme Court that did not name the defendants but identified them numerically from 1 to 10. It requested documentation to learn about the communications of the director's former representative and her company about him and the actors' marriage.

Baldoni's lawyers have described Lively's move as a "fraudulent mechanism," whose lawyer, after allegedly learning the content of the messages, issued a subpoena addressed to Jones and her company Joneswork. The representative attended the subpoena and handed over private messages between a former member of her agency, Jennifer Abel, and Melissa Nathan, a crisis management expert, suggesting that Baldoni and they were coordinating a smear campaign against the renowned actress.

"This fraudulent lawsuit was designed to obtain the power to subpoena without oversight or scrutiny, and in doing so, denied my clients the opportunity to challenge the relevance, nature, and scope of the subpoena," the director's attorney reproached. "This was done in bad faith and constitutes a blatant abuse of process," he assessed.

With these developments, a new plot is added to the upcoming docuseries already being prepared by Warner Bros. Discovery. Titled 'Baldoni vs. Lively: A Hollywood Feud,' its release is scheduled for June on Discovery+. The project will narrate the confrontation from its origin and focus on how each party is preparing for the trial. In court, Lively will argue that Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios plotted a "multi-layered plan" to damage her reputation after she accused him of "repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behaviors," while the director and the production company will allege the actress and Ryan Reynolds' intention to "destroy" his career.

In any case, as events unfold, a second season of the docuseries may be necessary to shed light on this complex web of accusations.