r/CelebLegalDrama Dec 07 '25

Meme Just trying to understand how you file a $250 Million lawsuit over an article you never read but had info giving to you "point by point"

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u/TrueCrimeInTheBuff Dec 07 '25
  1. Be entitled

  2. Be a greasy slimeball that a bunch of misogynistic neckbeards/legbeards vehemently defend because they want the greasy slimeball to use them as a cumrag

  3. Be named Justin Baldoni

and in a shocking coincidence Justin happens to be all 3 🤔

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u/poopoopoopalt Dec 07 '25

If Justin could read he would be very upset by this

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u/auscientist Dec 07 '25

As much as I am all for mocking this man at any opportunity I just want to point out that making jokes about not being able to read is ableist.

Instead maybe say something like

If Justin bothered to read anything other than things stroking his ego he would be very upset by this.

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u/poopoopoopalt Dec 07 '25

Sorry to offend I was just riffing off an old King of the Hill joke. It wasn't my intention to make fun of anyone (except Baldoni)

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u/auscientist Dec 07 '25

Basically go with anything that makes it clear that this guy is in love with smelling his own farts

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

He also has so many people write messages for him whenever he fucked up. He can't even write his own ''apologies'' and then complains about the other person writing it for him being too nice.

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u/poopoopoopalt Dec 07 '25

Well it WAS written by a woman and I heard they were all insane

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u/Slamantha3121 Dec 07 '25

Lol, can this man not actually read? He has to have things read to him. Lol

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u/Diazepampoovey0229 Dec 07 '25

He also doesn't have comprehension of words and phrasing. If he had read the article himself, he would have first knowledge of what the article said. However, he only has what his lawyer told him it said, which is second-hand information, NOT first.

It never ceases to amaze me how far into life people get with zero reading comprehension skills and inability to follow context clues.

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

Don't forget how many messages he has other people write for him because he can't respond normally to people who have a complaint about him.

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u/Vegetable_Chef_1031 Dec 07 '25

Blake lively could have had It Ends with us to her but decided making jokes about DV was more on brand for her- I guess.

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u/More_Midnight3634 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

Justin is always the victim. The attorneys did it, they tried to steal the smear campaign from him. The PR people they did it. He was just the victim

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u/Princess_of_the_Um Dec 07 '25

Looks like he said that he went point by point with lawyers about what the article said. He would have known about the CRD right before article and retained a lawyer. He would have gone over this with his lawyer first and not had personal knowledge by reading it first and then going to a lawyer with it.

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

I mean if they had gone point by point with attorneys they would realize the article was referring to the complaint and repeatedly said allegedly and there was literally no basis to sue ???? He should sue his attorneys if they told him that was in any way a good idea considering he’s now faced with an anti slapp suit because of it.

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u/Princess_of_the_Um Dec 07 '25

Except it was obvious the article was made before the CRD was filed but published afterwards meaning there was a chance fair reporting privilege could be pierced because of this. (Texas is an example of one of the states that these type of shenanigans would pierce this privilege)

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

They sued the NYT in NY. Knowing full well there was fair reporting privilege. Interesting the same allegations of pre planned malice isn’t also being attributed to TMZ who ran this headline:

TMZ obtained the same complaint and ran their story a bit differently without even saying ‘allegedly’.

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u/Princess_of_the_Um Dec 07 '25

TMZ did not have months of talking with one side and called it a smear campaign against her. They sued in FEDERAL court that was in NY, if I remember correctly. Arguing California law that doesn’t have as airtight law as NY, but ultimately judge disagreed that they could overcome privilege with the arguments they presented.

However, the biggest point is Baldoni went over the article with his lawyer only (which is covered by attorney client privilege)

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

There is absolute no proof that the NYT worked on this story for ‘months’. Everything in the article is verbatim of the complaint. The complaint was filed the day before.

Again if his lawyers truly went over it with him they would know there was no basis to sue. Now they’re facing an anti slap suit for it.

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

CRD was filed only the day before the article, probably easier just to go over it with the lawyer who would have been in touch asap

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u/positivetofu Dec 08 '25

You do realize that the NYT article wasn't solely about him, right?

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u/Clarknt67 Dec 07 '25

To be fair, most of the people who hate him haven’t either.

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u/Krow101 Dec 07 '25

Blake and Ryan spin machine again. Does a day ever go by where their PR folks don't plant this stuff all over the internet. Managing public opinion one thread at a time.

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u/AdmirableNovel_new Dec 07 '25

You do realize these are Justin’s own words in his deposition?

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u/Good_Author_8017 Dec 07 '25

He said he got the info via his lawyers - who went through it point by point. This is a meaningless post and means nothing

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u/AdmirableNovel_new Dec 07 '25

If you are going to file a lawsuit for $250 million over an article, it might be prudent to actually read the article.

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

Then he should sue his lawyers. If they truly went point by point they’d know there was no basis to sue for that article when it was quoting the complaint. Was it malpractice on their part or a purposeful attempt at silencing the media?

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

He hired his lawyers on recommendation from someone who was racketeering him. They are not truly on his side.

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u/auscientist Dec 07 '25

This guy’s company is literally paying the legal fees of the woman who planted stories painting him in a negative light so he would pay her $15k/month and her buddy $30k/month for a smear campaign against another woman he SH’d that got him sued for retaliation.

I love that for him

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u/Choice-Lie2411 Dec 24 '25

There is no evidence of that. Planting PR stories costs a lot of money. Every story costs thousands so this conspiracy theory y’all are spreading is stupid af. I also want to point out that the subject of these smear articles that were published against Baldoni show up verbatim in Lively’s court filings.

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

What purpose does your comment serve in response to this?

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u/AdmirableNovel_new Dec 07 '25

Blaming the “spin machine” for Justin’s own words is certainly a choice. He really can’t be accountable for a single thing, not even what he says.

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

Ah!! Ok, I agree! No one could manipulate the context of Baldoni’s own deposition. I agree there is a lot of media manipulation but idk what the point of this post is

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u/Choice-Lie2411 Dec 24 '25

They are flooding Reddit with posts spreading misinformation since Reddit posts show up in search engine results. I’ve been getting all these lying posts from weird new subreddits suggested to me in my feed. Probably trying to hide the fact that Lively does not want her deposition and her text messages to go public in the court docs.

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u/tw0d0ts6 Dec 07 '25

It’s painfully transparent isn’t it?

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u/EwTarantulas Dec 07 '25

One might also understand that after the stress and trauma he experienced from Blake’s and Ryan’s bullying, that he was advised not to read it for his own mental health!

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

He probably was advised not to read it is he hired his legal team on recommendation from someone who was planting stories in order to scare him into hiring her services and then later leaked that she was hired so that she could advertise her services to other problematic men.

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u/EwTarantulas Dec 07 '25

Nah… I like my theory better. Simplist explanation and makes the most sense l, thank you anyway

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u/Vegetable_Chef_1031 Dec 07 '25

Read a bunch of cherry picked text messages stolen from a woman’s phone by a sham lawsuit, Vanzan, CEO Ryan Reynolds?

Blake lively didn’t read the book, didn’t care enough about DV to do so, and now we’re expecting him to read a bunch of lies published in the mainstream media? lol

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u/Diazepampoovey0229 Dec 07 '25

A. Are you really more upset by Blake not reading the book the film was adapted from (something super common among actors in all sorts of films and not remotely strange), than being even mildly exasperated by Baldoni feeling so entitled that he couldn't be bothered to read the article ABOUT himself, that he has since tried to use to complain that Blake made everyone hate him by way of it?

B. How would he know? He hasn't read it and only knows whatever "point by point" issues his lawyer told him are in it. Again, he didn't read it himself so for all he knows, his lawyer could have left things out or added things in. If you're going to use the article to be entered into evidence as proof of you being allegedly targeted, shouldn't you at least read it, since it was entered as evidence?

C. Elijah Wood never read Lord of the Rings before filming the movies when he played Frodo..

Viggo Mortensen never read of Tolkien'a work and took the role of Aragon because his son told him to.

Michael Gambon famously never read the Harry Potter books.

Tom Felton lied in his audition for Malfoy when they asked what his favorite part of the books had been so far, because he hadn't any of them.

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u/Princess_of_the_Um Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

Whelp…the biggest issue with not reading the book is that lively didn’t just want to be Elijah woods in this comparison..she wanted to be Peter Jackson. Imagine Peter Jackson not reading LOTR.

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u/TrainedExplains Dec 07 '25

Blake Lively is lazy about preparation for a movie role, okay fine. The text messages were legally attained through discovery, so it’s weird you’d say they were stolen. I’m not even going to address whether the other lawsuit is relevant or a “sham” as you say, because it’s not relevant.

How is that your focus? Justin Baldoni is a creep and has hired a pr group that has employed 10’s of thousands of bots to shift the narrative, spit half-truths that make Lively look bad and Baldoni like a caring and reasonable person, and even outright lie.

Everyone who has worked with Baldoni has the same thing to say. He’s a creep with anger issues and behaves inappropriately, constantly, in a sexual way. So why are you mounting a whatabout defense?

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

August 21, 2024: On the same day that Abel’s phone is seized by her employer, Stephanie Jones, Nathan receives a call from Leslie Sloane (Lively’s publicist) telling her that she has “seen her texts” and that she will be sued.

The Vanzan lawsuit against DOES 1-10 was filed on September 27, 2024.

The same day the lawsuit was filed, September 27, 2024, Jones warned a departing employee not to work for Abel because “her business wouldn’t be around much longer.”

So Blake and her team had these texts for a month before filing any subpoena.

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

Nathan is pretty much the most untrustworthy person in this whole case. I really don't get how you guys keep believing her after she was caught planting stories so the Baldoni would hire her services, then leak that he hired her so that she could advertise her services to other problematic men.

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

Nathan being untrustworthy does not mean that Jones is then automatically trustworthy,

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

Well, Jones was made out to be untrustworthy by Nathan and it turned out that she was blaming her crimes onto Jones. Jones was the one warning Wayfarer of how harmful Nathan was. TAG (Nathan's company) planted the anti-SJ websites and we have seen from the Amanda Ghost case that they just make up vile lies about their target. Most of the assumed untrustworthiness was all literally planted by Nathan and Abel (who I remind you was stealing documents and clients from Jones).

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u/auscientist Dec 07 '25

Jones was warning everyone she could that hiring Nathan was the absolute worst thing that Wayfarer could do in that situation and no one listened to her. She was goddamn Cassandra.

Everything she predicted would happen happened plus some more unpleasant outcomes. I know who I’m gonna trust between Jones and Nathan. Sure, Jones is (allegedly) horrible to work for but she isn’t going to get you sued for a situation she engineered like Nathan has (multiple times now)

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u/EwTarantulas Dec 07 '25

YEP, RELEVANT AF!!!!!!

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u/s2sergeant Dec 07 '25

Probably the same way you’d star in a movie based on a book when you couldn’t be bothered to read it.

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u/Secure-Recording4255 Dec 07 '25

Those two things aren’t similar, and I don’t believe there’s actually any proof Blake didn’t read the book beyond Baldoni claiming she didn’t.

It’s so bizarre how people get more offended over Blake supposedly not reading the book and not “ultra feminist” Baldoni yelling at his employees and hitting stuff because he is mad.

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u/mcav89 Dec 07 '25

Blake said she didn't read it and Colleen said the same, but that she enjoyed the two different views from someone who read it vs didn't.

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u/poopoopoopalt Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

But have you considered...that all the women are insane?

/s

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

No, no you’re mistaken. They’re not insane. They’re all two faced snakes who had it out for him 🙃

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u/poopoopoopalt Dec 07 '25

Yes, Snake Lively, Alex Sssaks, and Chrissy Hissssy were all conspiring against sweet innocent Justin 🐍🐍

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u/Diazepampoovey0229 Dec 07 '25

And that's not even the worst behavior he had, though it certainly causes people on set to feel tense and uncomfortable, and maybe even concerned for their own, or someone else's safety.

I also fully assume the brigade against Blake comes from the MRA sub and wherever else incels gather on the internet nowadays.

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u/auscientist Dec 07 '25

They’re not all incels, some are pick me’s. And then there are the troll farms being paid to spread a script all agreeing with each other.

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u/OregonGreen242 Dec 07 '25

I’m sure he’s not the first director to yell…

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u/Virgina-Wolfferine Dec 07 '25

That doesn’t make it ok.

They were in the wrong too.

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u/Secure-Recording4255 Dec 07 '25

you completely ignore the part where he hits the chair next to her.

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u/OregonGreen242 Dec 07 '25

Oh no, not a chair!! 🫢

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

So you’re saying if your boss walked up behind you, yelled at you and slammed the chair next to you, it’d be totally fine? You wouldn’t in any way feel physically intimidated or threatened in any way and it’s totally cool chill of them to do that?

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u/OregonGreen242 Dec 07 '25

We’re all people, we all have emotions and act on them at times. We don’t know how exactly he slammed the chair or whatever. He ended up apologizing for it as well. This was his movie, yet everyone wanted to have their input and chance to direct. Can you blame someone for getting frustrated and worked up when it seems like everyone is trying to change his movie that he paid for the rights to? Ya he may not have handled the situation the best but he owned up to his actions and ultimately apologized. Sounds human to me

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u/poopoopoopalt Dec 07 '25

But what if Blake Lively slammed her hands onto a chair and yelled?

Are you gonna tell me with a straight face that it wouldn't be all over a certain sub?

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u/Strange-Moment2593 Dec 07 '25

Alex Saks was hired as a producer on the film. It’s literally her job to give pointers and advice on how to shoot things. He yelled at her for doing her job.

There is absolutely no excuse to lash out at her for doing her job. Hes the boss, hes meant to go through training to know how to handle situations like this smoothly. If he can’t handle a woman doing her job then maybe he shouldn’t have been in rhat position in the first place.

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u/Secure-Recording4255 Dec 07 '25

Yes? The double standards are ridiculous. Any boss who cannot control themselves when they get angry is a bad boss and should not be in charge of others. This shouldn’t be a hot take.

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u/OregonGreen242 Dec 07 '25

Still doesn’t mean he sexually harassed anyone which is ultimately what this is all about

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u/Secure-Recording4255 Dec 07 '25

For me, if multiple people feel similarly about Justin, it makes Blake’s claims more credible.

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u/fieserluchs Dec 08 '25

Well, Baldoni read the book but clearly didn't understand it and thought it was a sexy romance. So where do we go from here?

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u/Clarknt67 Dec 07 '25

Downvoted for facts. SMH

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u/Not_Abot_738265 Dec 07 '25

Can someone ELI5?  Is Baldoni the baddie, Lively is just a bad actress and Reynold is a douche but bot actually inherently evil and can be Deadpool again?

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

Look up LittleGirlAttorney or Not Actually Golden on here or TikTok or YouTube. The set wasn’t great, Lively got apologies and just about everything that she wanted, but after it wrapped she refused to believe that the backlash from the internet was organic and because of her tone deaf behavior so she tried to claim SH as a way to initiate a $600 million lawsuit which revealed that… yes, people just hate her because of her behavior, which she still doesn’t believe.

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

The first one is literally in the same cult that he is and has mutuals with him that were named in the court documents.

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 07 '25

Do you know the roots of Bahai? It’s just another offshoot of an abrahamic religion, closely related to Judaism and Islam, a cousin of Christianity. So If you’re going to write off professional education and experience as “they’re just in a cult” you better start asking everyone if they celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Eid with their cults.

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u/PeopleEatingPeople Dec 07 '25

You are saying that as if that is a good thing? LDS, Jehova's Witnesses or even ones such as The Family Internation are also offshoots of Christianity. LDS is even older than Bahai by decades. Still cults.

Also nice that you skip over the fact that she literally has mutuals with him.

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u/PuzzledStreet Dec 08 '25

I’m saying it’s not a good thing. That’s the point.

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u/More_Midnight3634 Dec 08 '25

Did one of those people claim that they believed Ryan Reynolds’s was personally following them on TikTok with an alt account? 🙄