Justin Baldoni and his crew simply launched an internet site in an obvious try to bolster his accusations towards Blake Vigorous — however why now?
Baldoni’s web site first appeared on Saturday, Feb. 1, simply two days earlier than the It Ends with Us costars, who’re locked in a contentious authorized battle, are scheduled to seem in a Feb. 3 pre-trial convention that’s slated to hash out Vigorous’s potential request for a gag order.
As authorized professional Gregory Doll — a lawyer and accomplice at Doll Amir & Eley who isn’t representing both social gathering — tells PEOPLE, Vigorous’s request might have been an try to thwart Baldoni, 41, and his crew from doing precisely this.
“One of many points raised within the letter briefs for Monday searching for to forestall Baldoni’s legal professional from talking in regards to the case publicly is his said intention to launch this very kind of web site,” Doll tells PEOPLE after the launch of the site, which links to an up to date grievance filed on Jan. 31.
The primary button on the positioning hyperlinks to the amended model of the grievance that Baldoni and 5 different plaintiffs filed towards Vigorous in response to Vigorous’s preliminary submitting towards him.
The second button on the newly created web site, titled “Timeline of Related Occasions,” is an exhibit to the amended grievance, and it’s a 168-page “timeline” that makes use of texts, emails and extra correspondences — a few of which haven’t beforehand been made public — shared in chronological order to color Baldoni’s model of the celebrities’ behind-the-scenes battle.
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By publishing the amended grievance and its exhibit — and the alleged messages they include — on-line forward of the pre-trial court docket look, Baldoni and his crew have ensured that they are going to be seen by the general public eye, probably quashing Vigorous’s request for a gag order earlier than it even has an opportunity to reach court docket.
“Launching it now accomplishes two issues,” Doll explains. “One, it will get the web site content material out to the general public earlier than there may be any order stopping Baldoni’s counsel from doing so; and two, it might persuade the decide that there isn’t a purpose to enter any kind of gag order towards Baldoni’s counsel as a result of the information is already within the public area anyway.”
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The behind-the-scenes battle between the It Ends with Us leads was first confirmed in December 2024 when, after months of on-line hypothesis about pressure between them, Vigorous, 37, sued Baldoni and his manufacturing firm Wayfarer Studios (plus It Ends with Us’ lead producer Jamey Heath, Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel, disaster publicist Melissa Nathan and extra), alleging sexual harassment and a smear marketing campaign launched in retaliation for talking out about alleged misconduct.
Baldoni has denied the sexual harassment allegations, and subsequently countersued Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist Leslie Sloane, in addition to Sloane’s PR agency Imaginative and prescient PR, Inc., on accusations of defamation and extortion.
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Each instances in Vigorous v. Wayfarer Studios et al. are actually scheduled for trial on March 9, 2026, Choose Lewis J. Liman outlined in an order filed Monday, Jan. 27. Liman is similar decide that Vigorous’s crew requested to handle “the suitable conduct of counsel” after Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman launched footage from the It Ends with Us set in an try to refute a few of Vigorous’s claims — and introduced plans to share proof in assist of Baldoni on an internet site.
Of their letter to Liman, Vigorous and her crew said that “federal litigation have to be carried out in court docket and based on the related guidelines {of professional} conduct” and claimed Freedman’s actions risked “tainting” a possible jury pool.
One other Baldoni legal professional, Kevin Fritz, responded in a Jan. 23 letter, calling the transfer an “intimidation tactic” and requested Liman to reject any potential gag order Vigorous’s crew might request. Fritz additionally argued that Vigorous “initiated” a “media feeding frenzy” by allegedly supplying The New York Instances with a duplicate of her preliminary grievance.