A crisis communications specialist from Texas has filed a $7 million defamation lawsuit against actor Blake Lively. The specialist, Jed Wallace, and his company, Street Relations, took legal action after being implicated in Lively's legal battle with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their film, “It Ends With Us.” Wallace asserts that he had no involvement in any campaign to tarnish Lively's reputation, as claimed in court documents.
Although Wallace is not a defendant in Lively's federal lawsuit against Baldoni and others, he was mentioned in the court papers and a New York Times article published when the legal disputes began in December. Lively's lawyers have dismissed Wallace's lawsuit as a retaliatory move in response to allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation that Lively filed with the California Civil Rights Department.
