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Al Jazeera
Entertainment
Shola Lawal

Why is Blake Lively making claims of a smear campaign against her?

Blake Lively arrives at the UK gala screening for the film It Ends With Us on August 8, 2024, in London [Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP]

Hollywood star Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint against her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni, accusing him of “repeated sexual harassment” on set and of an intensive smear campaign against her after the movie’s release.

Lively filed the complaint, which precedes a lawsuit, on Friday with the California Civil Rights Department, according to reports by The Associated Press news agency. Baldoni, his publicists and senior executives of Wayfarer, Baldoni’s studio behind the 2024 movie, have all been named as defendants in the complaint.

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