Justin Baldoni’s attorney has issued a scathing response after Jack Schlossberg falsely claimed the Kennedy family member was the actor’s lawyer amid his legal battle against Blake Lively.
JFK’s grandson, 31, took to X on Thursday morning claiming that Baldoni ‘is my client’ and that he agreed to ‘take on’ the star because ‘EVERYONE is entitled to a FAIR trial.’
Lively, 37, filed a lawsuit against Baldoni just days before Christmas, accusing him of sexually harassing her and fostering a toxic work environment on the set of their movie It Ends With Us, in which he both directed her and acted with her. He has staunchly denied the allegations.
Schlossberg, a Harvard Law School grad who passed the bar exam in 2023, added: ‘I agreed to take on JUSTIN BALDONI as a client. Why ? FAIRNESS EVERYONE is entitled to a FAIR TRIAL and ZEALOUS DEFENSE. Justin has NOTHING to hide, Justice will be his revenge.
‘After BOSTON MASSACRE, John Adams represented the British at trial. Same sh**, different day.’
Baldoni’s actual lawyer, Bryan Freedman, told the DailyMail.com that Schlossberg’s claim is ‘ridiculous’ and his client ‘has never spoken to him.’
‘Nobody on my team has spoken to him,’ Freedman continued.
Jack Schlossberg went on a bizarre rant about being Justin Baldoni’s lawyer amid the ongoing legal battle between him and Blake Lively
JFK’s grandson, 31, took to X on Thursday morning claiming that Baldoni ‘is my client’
Baldoni’s actual lawyer, Bryan Freedman, told the DailyMail.com that Schlossberg’s claim is ‘ridiculous’ and his client ‘has never spoken to him’
Following his initial post about the actor, Scholssberg said: ‘My personal feelings about Justin Baldoni are irrelevant. Justin is my client, I’m his lawyer.’
‘Even the most heinous individuals have the right to counsel for their defense.
‘I am not a hero. I’m just doing my job,’ he added.
In Lively’s initial complaint, which was a precursor to the more formal complaint filed on Tuesday, the actress claimed Baldoni worked to tarnish her reputation with a team including his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis PR Melissa Nathan, who previously worked with Johnny Depp.
Abel has denied waging a ‘smear campaign.’
Livelyfiled her first complaint in early December with the California Civil Rights Commission, but is now suing Baldoni in federal court in New York.
Lively’s first lawsuit contained a raft of accusations against Baldoni, who she says showed her nude images and videos of other women, ‘improvised physical intimacy’ during a scene without prior discussion, entered her trailer while she was ‘nude’ and allowed his ‘friends’ to watch her filming sex scenes.
Launched on New Year’s Eve, her new lawsuit is a more formal proceeding that targets Baldoni, Abel and Nathan as defendants, as well as Baldoni’s production company Wayfarer Studios.
In her latest legal action, Lively is demanding both ‘punitive’ and ‘compensatory’ damages and a jury trial, accusing the defendants of causing her ‘mental pain and anguish,’ as well as ‘severe and serious emotional distress’ and ‘lost wages.’
Lively’s attorneys gave a statement to the DailyMail.com alleging their client has been subject to ‘further retaliation and attacks’ since she made the ‘decision to speak out’ about her allegations against Baldoni.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Nathan, Abel and Wayfarer Studios, as well as representatives for Baldoni for comment.
Lively, 37, filed a lawsuit against Baldoni just days before Christmas, accusing him of sexually harassing her and fostering a toxic work environment on the set of their movie It Ends With Us
The Harvard grad said he agreed to ‘take on’ the star because ‘EVERYONE is entitled to a FAIR trial’
In her new lawsuit, Lively demands both ‘punitive damages’ as well as ‘a money judgement representing compensatory damages, lost wages, earning, and all other sums of money,’ plus ‘interest’ on the above ‘in an amount to be proven at trial.’
She also wants ‘an award of money judgment for mental pain and anguish and severe and serious emotional distress, in an amount to be proven at trial.’
Her lawyers provided a statement to DailyMail.com Tuesday, saying: ‘Earlier today, Ms. Lively filed a federal complaint against Wayfarer Studios and others in the Southern District of New York.
‘Ms. Lively previously sent her California Civil Rights Department Complaint in response to the retaliatory campaign Wayfarer launched against her for reporting sexual harassment and workplace safety concerns. Unfortunately, Ms. Lively’s decision to speak out has resulted in further retaliation and attacks.’
Lively’s attorneys continued: ‘As alleged in Ms. Lively’s federal Complaint, Wayfarer and its associates have violated federal and California state law by retaliating against her for reporting sexual harassment and workplace safety concerns. Now, the defendants will answer for their conduct in federal court.’
They added: ‘Ms. Lively has brought this litigation in New York, where much of the relevant activities described in the Complaint took place, but we reserve the right to pursue further action in other venues and jurisdictions as appropriate under the law.’
The actress claimed Baldoni worked to tarnish her reputation with a team including his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis PR Melissa Nathan. (The stars pictured in January 2024)
Lively, who is married to Deadpool lead Ryan Reynolds and is close friends with pop superstar Taylor Swift, has seen former colleagues rally around her amid the feud. (Pictured: The couple in 2014)
On the same day The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actress filed her second lawsuit against the Jane the Virgin star, he initiated a $250 million libel action against the New York Times, which broke the news of Lively’s first complaint earlier this month.
In a statement, the outlet stood by its reporting and denied the allegations. It said it plans to ‘vigorously defend against the lawsuit’.
Since news of Lively’s first lawsuit broke, Baldoni’s career has imploded, as he was dropped by his agency William Morris Endeavor.
Liz Plank, one of the co-hosts of Baldoni’s Man Enough podcast that billed itself as a space for ‘positive masculinity,’ announced she was quitting the show.
Lively, who is married to Deadpool lead Ryan Reynolds and is close friends with pop superstar Taylor Swift, has seen former colleagues rally around her amid the feud.
Her It Ends With Us co-stars Brandon Sklenar and Jenny Slate have spoken out to support her, as has Colleen Hoover, author of the novel on which the film is based.
Hoover shared a heartfelt message the same day the initial lawsuit became public, defending Lively.
Accompanying the post was a photo of Hoover and Lively sharing a warm embrace in what appeared to be a movie theater, likely during a screening of the film, as the audience applauded.
‘@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive, and patient since the day we met,’ Hoover wrote in the caption. ‘Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt.’
Reynolds is said to have ‘aggressively’ accused Baldoni of a string of offenses against his wife, including ‘fat-shaming’ her
She also included a link to a New York Times article, which detailed the allegations against Baldoni.
Lively’s husband, whom she met on the set of Green Lantern in 2010, has also been named in Baldoni’s bombshell lawsuit.
According to the legal documents, Reynolds and Lively are accused of ‘bullying’ the producer, adding that the Deadpool actor ‘berated’ Baldoni during a heated meeting at their New York penthouse.
Reynolds is said to have ‘aggressively’ accused Baldoni of a string of offenses against his wife, including ‘fat-shaming’ her.
On the evening of January 4 last year, the lawsuit says Baldoni plus other producers and a representative of Sony were invited to the home shared by the couple.
It says: ‘They arrived eager to discuss plans for the next day’s filming, prepared with their production materials. Instead, they were blindsided by Lively and Reynolds, who presented a list of grievances that were both unanticipated and troubling.
‘Reynolds launched into a tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a ‘traumatic’ encounter, stating he had ‘never been spoken to like that in his life.’
Colleen Hoover, author of the novel on which the film is based, has also stood by Lively, stating ‘you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive, and patient since the day we met’
Reynolds demanded an apology to Lively for actions that were mischaracterized and demonstrably false, the lawsuit says.
It adds: ‘When Baldoni resisted apologizing for what he had not done, Reynolds became further enraged. Everyone, including the producer Lively had asked production to engage and a representative of Sony that was in attendance, left that ‘meeting’ in shock. The producer offered that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that.’
Baldoni says after the filming was complete that Lively took over the movie project from him, refused to walk the red carpet with him or let him attend its premiere, and that she and husband Reynolds allegedly used their power to try and damage him.
Freedman previously responded to Lively’s first lawsuit by calling her claims ‘false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt’.
He argued that Lively’s suit was a gambit to ‘fix her negative reputation’ after rumors spread that she had been difficult to work with during the making of the film.
