Justin Baldoni was fired from WME after Blake Lively accused him of sexual harassment in a complaint filed Friday. The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The update comes hours after it was announced that Lively was taking legal action against her It ends with us Co-star and director.

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The file states: Simple favor The actress, who is also represented by WME along with her husband Ryan Reynolds, accused Baldoni and his colleagues at Wayfarer Studios of not only sexual harassment but also an alleged coordinated effort to destroy her reputation. The Jane the Virgin Star lawyer Bryan Freedman responded to the allegations, calling them “shameful,” “seriously and categorically false.”

Lively claims in the filing that things were so bad on set that there was a meeting with Lively, Sony Pictures, Baldoni and Jamey Heath of Wayfarer Studios, producers of the film, publicists of the film and others to address some of the “inappropriate “Addressing” behaviors that took place on set.

The actress and her team requested Baldoni and his team to resume production after the actors’ strike. The 30 demands included: “BL and/or its employees should no longer be shown nude videos of women, including the producer’s wife”; “No further mention of Mr. Baldonis or Mr. Heath’s past ‘pornography addiction’ or BL’s lack of pornography consumption to BL or other crew members”; “No more descriptions of one’s own genitals to BL”; and “No more impromptu kissing.”

The complaint also states that the It ends with us The cast and crew were contractually obligated to promote the film according to the given marketing plan, which stated that they would “focus more on Lily’s (Lively’s character) strength and resilience rather than portraying the film as a domestic violence story.” The Plan also stipulated that they would “avoid talking about this film that makes it seem sad or heavy – it is a story of hope.”

However, in the days leading up to the film, Baldoni deviated from this and focused on the film’s more serious domestic violence content. According to the filing, the actor-director and his team attempted to explain why many of the film’s cast and crew members unfollowed him on social media and did not appear with him in public. The filing alleges that he and his team used domestic violence “survival content” to protect his image.

“What the public also didn’t know was that this was the beginning of a multi-stage plan that Mr. Baldoni and his team described as ‘social engineering’ designed to ‘destroy’ Ms. Lively’s reputation,” it said of the complaint. “This plan was supported by virtually unlimited resources.”

In a statement about this The New York TimesLively said: “I hope my legal action will help lift the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about wrongdoing and protect others who may be targeted.”

Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, released a lengthy statement denying the allegations contained in the filing. “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false allegations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their representatives in another desperate attempt to ‘repair’ their negative reputation created by their own statements.” actions during the campaign for the film; Interviews and press activity observed publicly, in real time and unedited, allowing the Internet to generate its own views and opinions,” he began.

The statement continued: “These claims are completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with the intent to publicly offend and rehash a media narrative.” Wayfarer Studios made the decision to proactively hire a crisis manager prior to the film’s marketing campaign, who was supposed to work with her own representative at Jonesworks, who was employed by Stephanie Jones, as Ms. Lively made numerous demands and threats during production, which included her threatening not to show up on set, threatening not to do the film to promote, which would ultimately lead to his downfall during release if their demands were not met. It was also discovered that Ms. Lively hired her own representative, Leslie Sloan of Vision PR, who also represents Mr. Reynolds, to spread negative and completely fabricated and false stories to the media even before the film began to be marketed was another reason Wayfarer Studios made the decision to hire a crisis expert to begin internal scenario planning for the case they needed to handle.

“Wayfarer Studios representatives have still not taken any proactive or retaliatory action and have only responded to incoming media inquiries to ensure balanced and factual reporting and to monitor social activity,” the statement concluded. “What is conspicuously missing from the carefully selected correspondence is evidence that no proactive action was taken with the media or otherwise; only internal scenario planning and private correspondence for strategy development, which is standard procedure for PR professionals.”

Pamela McClintock contributed to this story.

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