Blake Lively wants Justin Baldoni to pay millions of dollars for filing a frivolous defamation suit against her, in a test of a California law aimed at protecting sexual harassment victims who speak out.
Lively has accused Baldoni, her director and co-star, of sexually harassing her on the set of “It Ends With Us” and of retaliating against her for complaining about it by launching an online smear campaign.
Baldoni responded with a $400 million defamation lawsuit in which he accused Lively of attempting to destroy his career with false allegations.
In a motion filed on Monday, Lively’s attorneys argued that she should be awarded multiple millions of dollars to cover her attorneys’ fees and costs. She will also seek treble damages for her economic, emotional and psychological harms as well as punitive damages for abuse of the court system.
[Source: Variety News]
