Justin Baldoni gets award for ‘advocating for women and girls’ after Blake Lively files complaint against Justin Baldoni, his team and Wayfarer Studios The award was revoked.
December 9, It all ends with us The director and co-star received the United Voice Award from Vital Voices. The honor recognizes “outstanding men who have demonstrated courage and compassion in advocating for women and girls.”
The organization decided to revoke his award after learning of Lively’s “disturbing” and “abhorrent conduct” against Baldoni, his publicist and others at Wayfarer Studios.
“The communications between Mr. Baldoni and his publicist contained in the lawsuit – and the public relations efforts they indicate – are themselves contrary to the values of Vital Voices and the spirit of the award. We have informed Baldoni Sir, we have withdrawn the award.
It all ends with us Distributed by Sony Pictures. In a statement after the complaint was filed, a spokesperson told hollywood reporter: “We have previously expressed our support for Black’s work on this film. Today we fully and firmly reaffirm that support. Additionally, we strongly condemn any attacks on her reputation. Any such attacks on our business or have no place in civil society.
Lively and Baldoni’s costar Brendan Sklennar briefly expressed his disapproval on his Instagram Story gossip Girl Star. In a post, he shared a screenshot of the document and wrote: “For the love of God please read this.” He linked to new york times” filed a complaint and tagged Lively’s Instagram with a heart emoji.
SAG-AFTRA expressed support in its own statement following Lively’s decision to take legal action against Baldoni and his team.
“These are shocking and disturbing allegations. Employees have every right to raise concerns or lodge a grievance. Retaliation for reporting misconduct or misconduct is unlawful and wrong,” the association said in a statement . hollywood reporter. “We applaud Blake Lively for speaking out about retaliation and harassment and for requiring an intimacy coordinator for all scenes that contain nudity or sexual content. This is an important step to help ensure safety. We all have the right to be treated with dignity and respect at work and to work in an environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation. We urge anyone who may be experiencing abusive behavior to contact us through our SAG-AFTRA Safe Place app. Report such violations to their employer.
The decision by the organization comes after Lively filed sexual harassment complaints against Baldoni and her team, including Jamie Heath, and engaged in a coordinated effort to “destroy” her reputation. According to the complaint, multiple parties must attend an all-hands meeting to address Lively’s claims of a hostile work environment.
During the meeting, requests included “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Lively”; “no more mention of Mr. Baldoni or Mr. Heath’s previous ‘porn addiction'”; “no more contact with BL “discuss personal sexual experiences with and/or its employees”; “no longer describe one’s genitals”; etc.
Since taking legal action, multiple celebrities have spoken out in support of Lively, including her Sisterhood of Traveling Pants co-starring, a simple favor Directed by Paul Feig and Amber Heard. Meanwhile, Baldoni has been dropped from his WME agency and his publicist, Jennifer Abel, who was named in the complaint, shared her side of the story.
The document includes numerous text messages between Abel, TAG PR’s crisis communications manager Melissa Nathan and Baldoni about their efforts throughout the crisis. It all ends with us Press tour.
“The cherry-picked information did not contain anything that, while not shocking because it was inconsistent with the narrative, did not commit ‘slander,'” Abel wrote in part. “There is no negative news, no social struggle plan, although we are prepared because our job is to be ready for any situation. But we do not need to implement anything because the Internet has already done the work for us.
She added, “As the texts show, we were secretly joking with each other in sophomore year about the internet’s feedback on the woman whose team was making our lives incredibly difficult on the campaign trail. I’m human. After a long time The time, the months of preparation, on top of my day job…it’s nice to see that, despite our preparations, we don’t have to do anything extra to protect our customers.
Brian Friedman, an attorney for Baldoni, Abel and Nathan, also released a new statement Monday regarding the allegations.
“TAG PR operates like any other crisis management firm when a client is hired to be threatened by two extremely powerful individuals with unlimited resources,” he said. “The standard scenario planning drafted by TAG PR proved to be Unnecessarily, as viewers found Lively’s behavior, interviews, and marketing on the promotional tour objectionable and responded organically to the media’s own coverage, ironically enough. new york times,” through their efforts to “expose” an insidious PR campaign by releasing leaked personal text exchanges that lacked critical context, directly exploiting Lively’s own questionable PR tactics — which she accuses the company of committing. The strategy is exactly the same.
