Justin Baldoni Amends Blake Lively Lawsuit: Takes Aim at NYT Metadata, Claims Ryan Reynolds Bullied Him With Nicepool

Justin Baldoni Amends Blake Lively Lawsuit With NYT Metadata Claims

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Justin Baldoni has updated his lawsuit against Blake Lively to add new claims about New York Times metadata, while also accusing her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of “bullying” him with the character of Nicepool in “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

Baldoni’s lawyers filed an amended, 224-page lawsuit on Friday night, and launched a website to host the complaint along with an accompanying 168-page timeline. Baldoni directed and co-starred with Lively in “It Ends with Us,” which has led to an epic legal and PR battle over the last six weeks.

Among the new allegations, Baldoni’s team alleges that metadata on the Times’ website shows that the paper had access to Lively’s civil rights complaint at least 11 days before its bombshell Dec. 21 report. The story, entitled “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine,” accused Baldoni and his publicists of working to tarnish Lively’s reputation in apparent retaliation for her complaints about sexual harassment on set.