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Justin Baldoni came to WME after Blake Lively complained

Justin Baldoni came to WME after Blake Lively complained

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni is no longer a customer WME. The decision to leave the actor-director-producer was made Saturday morning by WME executives due, at least in part, to a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint filed Friday night by Baldoni’s company. It ends with us co-star and fellow producer Blake Livelysources told Deadline. Lively continues to be represented by WME.

The agency did not respond to Deadline’s requests for comment. If and when they do, we’ll update the story.

Brisk filed a complaint with 10 claims late Friday, the California Department of Civil Rights charged Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios and others involved with It ends with us sexual harassment and a “coordinated effort to destroy her reputation.”

In the statement, she details a “hostile work environment that nearly derailed production of the film” and a multi-pronged “Astroturfing” campaign allegedly launched against her by Baldoni and his company following the release of the film based on Colleen. Hoover’s book.

The complaint details the problems Lively and/or her staff allegedly had on set due to “videos of nudity or depictions of women, including the producer’s wives,” references to Baldoni’s “previous ‘porn addiction’ or co-producer Jamie Heath’s” , discussions of “personal experience of sex”, “description of one’s own genitalia” and “personal, physical touching or sexual comments” as well as Baldoni asking Lively’s trainer “to divulge her weight without her knowledge or consent,” and Baldoni and/or others adding “off-script scenes of sex, oral sex, or climaxing on (Lively)’s camera,” among other explosive claims.

Baldoni, through his attorney Brian Friedman, called the allegations “absolutely false, outrageous and intentionally obscene with the intent to publicly offend and reframe the media narrative.”

In addition to production It ends with us through his Wayfarer Studios and starring alongside Lively, Baldoni directed a film that deals with domestic violence.