Justin Baldoni Information Amended Blake Vigorous Lawsuit, Here is How It All Began

2/1 — 1:32 PM PT — A spokesperson for the New York Occasions tells TMZ … “The Baldoni/Wayfarer authorized filings are rife with inaccuracies about The New York Occasions, together with, for instance, the bogus declare that The Occasions had early entry to Ms. Vigorous’s state civil rights criticism. Mr. Baldoni’s attorneys base their faulty declare on postings by beginner web sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are flawed.”

“The sleuths have famous {that a} model of the Vigorous state criticism printed by The Occasions carries the date ‘December 10’ although the criticism wasn’t filed till greater than per week later. The issue: that date is generated by Google software program and is unrelated to the date when The Occasions obtained it and posted it. A have a look at the metadata from the posted doc appropriately exhibits it was posted after Ms. Vigorous filed it with the California Civil Rights Division.”

Justin Baldoni says he now has chilly arduous proof Blake Vigorous and Ryan Reynolds had it out for him a number of months earlier than she dropped her Christmas shock lawsuit towards him … so, now he is updating his lawsuit towards them.

Based on new docs, obtained by TMZ, Justin alleges the “malicious and reckless” defamation of his character began not less than as early as October 31 — it is received nothing to do with Halloween, and the whole lot to do with the metadata embedded within the New York Occasions article about Blake’s lawsuit towards Justin.

Here is their proof … Justin’s crew claims observers of the article discovered “viewing the HTML supply code for the article revealed references to a ‘message-embed-generator’ that referred to a date of ‘2024-10-31.'”

So, in layman’s phrases, and in Justin’s lawsuit … he says that exhibits the NYT began constructing the allegedly defamatory article no later than October 31 — the date the outlet developed a software to show the textual content messages that have been such a outstanding a part of Blake’s lawsuit and the Occasions article about it.

Staff Baldoni says that is vital as a result of the weather behind the now-infamous article “strip away the authorized shields that Vigorous, the Occasions, and different Vigorous Events have been probably counting on to guard their malicious acts of defamation.”

As we have reported, Justin is suing the NYT for $250 million — separate from his $400 million go well with towards Blake and Ryan — alleging the outlet cherry-picked and doctored textual content messages in its article, and colluded with Blake to help her assault on his character.

Justin’s legal professional Bryan Freedman tells TMZ … “The choice to amend our lawsuit was a logical subsequent step because of the overwhelming quantity of recent proof that has come to mild. This recent proof corroborates what we knew all alongside, that attributable to purely egotistical causes Ms. Vigorous and her complete crew colluded for months to destroy reputations by way of a posh internet of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly obtained communications.”

Freedman provides, “The continued public curiosity on this case on-line has paradoxically make clear the plain information pertaining to The New York Occasions and the way closely Ms. Vigorous and her representatives weren’t solely deeply concerned within the tried take down and smear marketing campaign of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their groups however that they themselves initiated it.”

The amended go well with additionally features a greater than 150-page timeline that lays out, in meticulous element, the sequence of Blake’s alleged marketing campaign to destroy Justin. How detailed is it? It goes all the best way again to January 1, 2019, when Justin emailed Colleen Hoover, the creator of the “It Ends With Us” novel … and follows, step-by-step, by way of this saga to January 29, 2025.