Why did the Justin Baldoni website launch with updated complaint? Legal expert explains (exclusive)

Justin Baldoni And his team Just launched a site in an obvious attempt to strengthen their accusations against Blake lively – But why now?

Baldoni’s website first appeared On Saturday, February 1, just two days before It ends with us Costars, who is locked up in a controversial legal battle, is scheduled to show up in a conference for February 3 Lively’s potential request for gag order.

As a legal expert Gregory doll – A lawyer and partner at Doll Amir & Eley who does not represent any of the parties – tells People, Lively’s request may have been an attempt to prevent Baldoni, 41, and his team from doing exactly this.

“One of the questions raised in the letter for Monday trying to prevent Baldoni’s lawyer from talking about the case public is his stated intention to launch this particular type of website,” Doll tells people after the launch of Website, which links to an updated complaint submitted on January 31.

The first button on the website links to the changed version of the complaint such as Baldoni and five other plaintiffs submitted against lively in response to Lively’s first archiving against him.

The second button on the newly created website, entitled “Timeline for relevant events”, is an exhibition to the changed complaint, and it is a “timeline of 168 pages that use texts, emails and more correspondences-of which no one before Has previously been published in chronological order to paint Baldoni’s version of the stars’ conflict behind the scenes.

By publishing the amended complaint and its exhibition and the alleged messages they contain-online before the court’s appearance before the trial, Baldoni and his team have ensured that they will be seen by the public eye and potentially stifle Lively’s request for a gag order before it And with has a chance to succeed in court.

“Starting it now achieves two things,” explains Doll. “One, it receives the content of the website to the public before there is any order that prevents Baldoni’s advice from doing so; and two may convince the judge that there is no reason to specify any type of gag order against Baldoni’s advice because the information is already in it public area. ”

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Behind the scenes conflict between It ends with us Leads first confirmed in December 2024 when, After months of online speculation about tensions between themLively, 37, sued Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios (plus It ends with us’ lead producer Jamey HeathBaldonis Publicist Jennifer Abel, Crisis Publicist Melissa Nathan and More), claims sexual harassment and a batter campaign Launched in retaliation to talk about alleged misunderstanding.

Baldoni has denied the allegations of sexual harassment and thereafter counted livelyHer husband Ryan Reynolds And their publicist Leslie Sloane, as well as Sloanes PR company PR, Inc., about allegations of slander and blackmail.

Both cases in Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al. are now scheduled for trial on March 9, 2026, Judge Lewis J. Liman outlined in an order submitted on Monday 27 January. Liman is the same judge as it Lively’s team asked to deal with “appropriate construction of lawyer” after Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman Released pictures from It ends with us set In an attempt to disprove some of Lively’s claims – and announced plans to share evidence in support of Baldoni on a website.

In her letter to Liman, Lively and her team stated that “federal litigation must be implemented in court and according to the relevant rules for professional behavior” and claimed that Freedman’s actions risked “narrow” a potential jury pool.

Another lawyer in Baldoni, Kevin Fritz, answered in a letter on January 23 and called the move a “scary tactic” and asked Liman to reject all future Gagorder Lively’s team can request. Fritz also claimed that Lively “initiated“ an “Media Map Frenesi” By allegedly delivering New York Times with a copy of her first complaint.