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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what was that whole thing where he was hiring the Geragos firm which is friendly to Freedman? Now he's against Freedman?[/quote]

All that is clear at this point is the guy has a constantly changing narrative.[/quote]

Eh, I do think there is one nugget here that is consistent, and that is that Leslie Sloane did not tell Vituscka in August 2024 that Baldoni sexually harassed or assaulted Blake. This keeps getting obscured but Vituscka has actually been very consistent about that from the beginning. It's just that Freedman tried to make it seem otherwise via a bit of sleight of hand, and a lot of people online took Freedman's version as gospel.

The sleight of hand is that Freedman included an UNDATED text exchange between Nathan and Vituscka where JV says the following: "She [Sloane] said the whole cast hits [sic] Justin this has nothing to do with Blake and now she's saying that Blake was sexually assaulted. Why wouldn't she say anything about that then? She knows she is full of shit. She told me that the whole issue was that everybody hates Justin. Nothing about Blake and Justin. She said it has nothing to do with Blake. Bullshit."

Baldoni's initial complaint makes it seem like this undated exchange happened in August 2024, and that they are discussing what Sloane was saying (to Vituscka and others) in August 2024). In reality, this exchange happened in December 2025, and Vituscka is reacting to Blake's CRD complaint and the allegations in the NYT. He is confusing sexual harassment and assault (referring to the claims in Blake's complaint and the article as assault when Blake only alleged harassment), but he's specifically telling Nathan that Sloane never told him Justin sexually harassed Lively back in August.

Yet Freedman used this exchange as evidence that Sloane had defamed Justin by saying he sexually assaulted Blake back in August 2024. When actually Vituscka's texts prove the opposite -- in August 2024, Sloane only described the situation to Vituscka as a personality spat between Justin and the rest of the cast. Nathan and Baldoni may have feared or believed that Sloane was spreading rumors about Justin being a sexual harasser, and thus might have felt justified in their own actions against Blake. But Vituscka is confirming that at least in his conversations with Sloane, she was doing the opposite -- downplaying any issues between Justin and Blake and not mentioning any harassing on set behavior by Justin.

I get why Vituscka is mad at Freedman. By using the exchange without a date and failing to properly contextualize it in the complaint, Freedman put Vituscka in a terrible position with regards to both his employer and the public, and in retrospect it looks like Vituscka was actually being honest the whole time until the Daily Mail pushed him to issue a statement he is now saying was not truthful.[/quote]

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