Justin Baldoni is already coping with main fallout days after Blake Vigorous filed a lawsuit in opposition to him.
The New York Occasions reported on December 21 that Vigorous filed a lawsuit on December 20 wherein she accused him of sexual harassment and launching a “social manipulation” marketing campaign in opposition to her to “destroy” her repute in the course of the promotion of their movie It Ends With Us. The docs, which have been additionally obtained by Us Weekly, claimed that Vigorous was not the one forged member who complained about Baldoni.
Baldoni, who has been a vocal supporter of ladies’s points, has denied the allegations by way of his lawyer Bryan Freedman who known as Vigorous’s accusations “utterly false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” in a press release to Us. The assertion claimed that Vigorous filed the lawsuit to “repair her damaging repute” and “rehash a story” concerning the movie’s manufacturing.
Us reached out to Vigorous’s rep for remark however didn’t instantly hear again. In a press release to The New York Occasions concerning her lawsuit, the actress mentioned, “I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory ways to hurt individuals who communicate up about misconduct and helps defend others who could also be focused.”
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us costars Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. Within the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Occasions, Vigorous accused Baldoni of launching a […]
Whereas Baldoni has maintained innocence for the reason that lawsuit’s submitting, he has suffered from a collection of profession setbacks. Baldoni was rapidly dropped from his expertise company along with having an award rescinded.
Preserve scrolling to see what Baldoni has misplaced since information broke of Vigorous’s lawsuit:
Dropped From WME
The identical day that information broke of Vigorous’s lawsuit, expertise company WME (William Morris Endeavor) dropped Baldoni as a consumer. Deadline reported that the choice was made by WME management and was partly as a result of Vigorous’s lawsuit.
WME additionally represents Vigorous the place she nonetheless stays a consumer.
Very important Voices Award Rescinded
One week earlier than information broke of Vigorous’s lawsuit, Baldoni was awarded on the 2024 Very important Voices Solidarity Awards which is an “awards program that honors outstanding males who’ve proven braveness and compassion in advocating on behalf of ladies and women worldwide,” per the group’s web site. The respect was offered by his It Ends With Us costar Hasan Minhaj.
On December 23, Very important Voices introduced they rescinded the award and alerted Baldoni of the choice amid the authorized drama.
“The Voices of Solidarity Award honors outstanding males who’ve proven braveness and compassion in advocating on behalf of ladies and women,” a press release shared by way of Instagram learn. “On December 9, 2024, we acknowledged Justin Baldoni with this award. On Saturday, December 21, we realized by way of information stories a few lawsuit introduced by Blake Vigorous in opposition to Mr. Baldoni, his publicists, and others that’s disturbing and alleges abhorrent conduct. The communications amongst Mr. Baldoni and his publicists within the lawsuit — and the PR effort they point out — are, alone, opposite to the values of Very important Voices and the spirit of the Award.”
Dropping a Cohost
Baldoni hosted the podcast “Man Sufficient” alongside writer Liz Plank. On December 23, Plank introduced her departure from the present after 4 years.
“I’m writing to you in the present day to let you already know that I’ve had my representatives inform Wayfarer that I’ll not be co-hosting the ‘Man Sufficient’ podcast,” Plank wrote in a press release obtained by Folks. “Thanks for trusting me together with your hearts and tales, for holding area for mine, and for making this present what it was. I’ll miss you, the listeners, a lot. I really like what this neighborhood created along with each fiber of my being, and that’s due to you.”
Plank added that whereas “this chapter closes” for her, she plans on staying “dedicated to the values we’ve constructed collectively.”
“Thanks for being right here, for trusting me, and for being by my facet for the final 4 years. All of us deserve higher, and I do know that collectively, we will create it,” she continued. “I’ll have extra to share quickly as I proceed to course of all the pieces that has occurred. Within the meantime, I’ll proceed to assist everybody who calls out injustice and holds the folks standing of their means accountable.”
She didn’t check with Baldoni or the lawsuit in her assertion.
