Justin Baldoni is already coping with main fallout days after Blake Vigorous filed a lawsuit towards him.
The New York Instances reported on December 21 that Vigorous filed a lawsuit on December 20 through which she accused him of sexual harassment and launching a “social manipulation” marketing campaign towards her to “destroy” her status through the promotion of their movie It Ends With Us. The docs, which had been additionally obtained by Us Weekly, claimed that Vigorous was not the one solid member who complained about Baldoni.
Baldoni, who has been a vocal supporter of girls’s points, has denied the allegations through his lawyer Bryan Freedman who known as Vigorous’s accusations “fully false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” in a press release to Us. The assertion claimed that Vigorous filed the lawsuit to “repair her detrimental status” 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 Instances concerning her lawsuit, the actress stated, “I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory techniques to hurt individuals who converse up about misconduct and helps shield 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 Instances, Vigorous accused Baldoni of launching a […]
Whereas Baldoni has maintained innocence because the lawsuit’s submitting, he has suffered from a collection of profession setbacks. Baldoni was shortly dropped from his expertise company along with having an award rescinded.
Maintain 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 consequence of Vigorous’s lawsuit.
WME additionally represents Vigorous the place she nonetheless stays a consumer.
Important Voices Award Rescinded
One week earlier than information broke of Vigorous’s lawsuit, Baldoni was awarded on the 2024 Important Voices Solidarity Awards which is an “awards program that honors exceptional males who’ve proven braveness and compassion in advocating on behalf of girls and ladies worldwide,” per the group’s web site. The dignity was offered by his It Ends With Us costar Hasan Minhaj.
On December 23, Important Voices introduced they rescinded the award and alerted Baldoni of the choice amid the authorized drama.
“The Voices of Solidarity Award honors exceptional males who’ve proven braveness and compassion in advocating on behalf of girls and ladies,” a press release shared through Instagram learn. “On December 9, 2024, we acknowledged Justin Baldoni with this award. On Saturday, December 21, we discovered by information experiences a few lawsuit introduced by Blake Vigorous towards 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 Important Voices and the spirit of the Award.”
Shedding a Cohost
Baldoni hosted the podcast “Man Sufficient” alongside creator Liz Plank. On December 23, Plank introduced her departure from the present after 4 years.
“I’m writing to you as we speak to let 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 Individuals. “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 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 are able to create it,” she continued. “I’ll have extra to share quickly as I proceed to course of every little thing that has occurred. Within the meantime, I’ll proceed to assist everybody who calls out injustice and holds the folks standing of their approach accountable.”
She didn’t confer with Baldoni or the lawsuit in her assertion.
Podcast Episode Deleted
Within the wake of Vigorous’s lawsuit, Elizabeth Day, host of the podcast “Tips on how to Fail,” deleted an episode the place she interviewed Baldoni about It Ends With Us.
“I’ve made the choice to take away the current Tips on how to Fail interview with Justin Baldoni from all platforms whereas the distressing allegations made towards him in Blake Vigorous’s current lawsuit are absolutely investigated,” Day wrote in a press release shared through Instagram on December 24. “Each particular person has a proper to a protected office. Each girl has the precise to dignity in that office. Each type of abuse must be known as out and I salute the people who’ve the braveness to take action.”
