The New York Times is hitting back at Justin Baldoni over claims in his amended lawsuit.
On Saturday (February 1), it was revealed that the 41-year-old It Ends With Us director and actor made changes to his lawsuit against Blake Lively, alleging that she had been working with The New York Times for months on the article in which she accused him of sexual harassment.
In the updated suit, Justin‘s team claims readers of the article found “viewing the HTML source code for the article revealed references to a ‘message-embed-generator’ that referred to a date of ’2024-10-31.’” The article was published in December 2024.
Following his updated Justin‘s lawsuit, The New York Times released a statement fire back that they had “early access” to the 37-year-old actress’ complaint.
Keep reading to find out more…“The Baldoni/Wayfarer legal filings are rife with inaccuracies about The New York Times, including, for example, the bogus claim that The Times had early access to Ms. Lively’s state civil rights complaint,” a spokesperson with The New York Times shared with JustJared.com. “Mr. Baldoni’s lawyers base their erroneous claim on postings by amateur internet sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are wrong.”
“The sleuths have noted that a version of the Lively state complaint published by The Times carries the date ‘December 10′ even though the complaint wasn’t filed until more than a week later,” the spokesperson continued. “The problem: that date is generated by Google software and is unrelated to the date when The Times received it and posted it. A look at the metadata from the posted document correctly shows it was posted after Ms. Lively filed it with the California Civil Rights Department.”
If you missed it, Justin‘s legal team responded to one of Blake‘s requests before their upcoming first day in court.
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