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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, PP is wrong that it matters if this is different from what other PR firms do. No. If it’s found that Lively reasonably reported SH, Baldoni is not allowed to retaliate against her. And planting stories about her is retaliation, whether PR firms do it all the time or not.

I fully believe PR firms do this ish all the time. But that’s why Lively sued!  I don’t believe they’re allowed to retaliate here, so this letter is devastating to their case imho. [/quote]

This. The issue is not that Baldoni engaged PR to smear Blake (and it's true people do this all the time, unfortunately). The problem is that she was an employee who had reported workplace harassment and that the PR campaign against her was intended to discredit her so that if she went public with her claims, people wouldn't believe her.

*That* is what is illegal. This is an employment case. You are not allowed to retaliate against employees or former employees for raising harassment or workplace safety issues. This would be true for a paper company or the grocery store too. You could remove all the PR people and the celebrity nature of it, and make this a case of a woman who worked at a grocery store, complained multiple times that her supervisor's behavior was harassing and made her uncomfortable. If that supervisor later spread rumors about the woman being a "mean girl" or criticizing how she looks or dresses, he could be sued for retaliation.

Any decent HR department or employment lawyer will tell you -- if an employee brings a complaint against you in the workplace, refer the matter to the lawyers or whoever handles that process and SAY NOTHING. Do not discuss the employee outside of work. This is like the first rule of handling workplace harassment complaints.[/quote]

Except this rant is  not  remotely what happened (for one, there was no actual sexual harassment, but we’ll skip that for now).  Blake took many actions after the so-called agreement to cast Baldoni in a narrative light, including but definitely not limited to, taking control of the film, and not allowing him to attend his own film premiere like a normal cast member.  Further, there is zero evidence thus far that the pr firm planted anything false about Blake as opposed to attempts to pprtray Justin in a positive light or truthfully portray actual occurrences, neither of which is retaliation.[/quote]

Right, and I was only a casual observer of the movie marketing and I remember early on hearing that Blake had been fat shamed by Justin. Clearly Blake‘s PR team had that all over the Internet if I saw it. And that was really early. So he had every right to obtain a crisis firm and fight back, anyone would have. And then he had ryan going all over town, calling him a sexual predator, specifically to his agency that represented him.

Come on, this is ridiculous. I can’t even believe after all that come out we are even debating us. She is cooked.

The amount of time they are spending on Perez Hilton has made it clear they have nothing. What a joke.[/quote]

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