Anonymous wrote:Just wait for a classic Tswift pap walk with Blake and the entire narrative will shift.

I don't know if this will happen, but I do wonder about all the people who are simply quiet now who are or were BL friends or supporters -- TS, Jenny Slate, Brendan Sklenar, Isabela Ferrera, Liz Plank, people at Sony, etc.

As someone upthread said, all of these people have lawyers who are surely telling them to be quiet right now. There is nothing to gain for them to make public declarations of support, for either side.

But many of these people will be fact witnesses. I think many watchers assume their silence means they've turned on Blake. And some of them may have! But in reality they HAVE to be silent now.

I am curious what happens when these folks are deposed or testify or issue affidavits, if they back Blake's story. This is what I think would amount to a "smoking gun" that sways public opinion. Like if other cast members come out and back Blake's story, say they witnessed or experienced unacceptable behavior on set, that Blake's actions with the 17 point list were necessary for creating a better environment post hiatus, and that their choice to refuse to promote the film with Baldoni was not forced on them by Blake but their own choice based on their own experiences with him.

What if Sony people, including Alex Saks, come out and say Blake and others were reaching out to them from early on reporting problems, that Sony kept pushing it back to Wayfarer as the producing studio, but that Wayfarer kept saying it was handled and it wasn't?

What happens if Liz Plank, who worked with Baldoni and Heath for years but is friendly with Lively, testifies in support of Lively's narrative?

I'm not saying this will all happen -- it's also possible all these people have abandoned Blake and she's out on her own. But people are assuming everyone's silence means a lack of support, when the silence is likely legally enforced. The truth is we don't know.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake is Will Smith at the Oscars. She was on top of the world. Best box office she’d ever had in her life. And she throws it all away for vengeance.

Even worse, unlike Smith who smacked Chris Rock in a heat of passion, Lively had time to think about this. She plotted for months. Filed fake lawsuits and got fake subpoenas. Asked friends to cover her tracks and delete their texts. She poured gasoline all around the house and then lit the match from the inside.

Meanwhile JB’s texts show he was praying for Blake and Ryan. His friends stand by him and pay the bill. Blake’s friends flee in disgust forcing the disgraced actress to seek alliances with the likes of Salma Hayek, Sherilyn Ifill and Paul Feig, all baby boomers who have no clue what’s going on because they only read mainstream media. She wasn’t invited to Gigi’s 30th but at least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th.

lmao goddamn

At least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th had me howling.

NP. Yes, that line is very very good. (Because it’s true)

Just wait for a classic Tswift pap walk with Blake and the entire narrative will shift.

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Anonymous wrote:lol yeah the Baldoni supporters are all totally “organic”

Baldoni people keep talking about how much money Lively is spending, but I suspect Sarowitz is spending a comparable amount. They have all these MTDs to defend and they seem behind on discovery. True, Freedman seems to have fewer lawyers, so maybe they will bill fewer hours over the same period of time. I guess that’s why they’re clearly unable to keep up the pace of Lively’s and are turning in such crappy work product. I wonder how much Freedman billed Baldoni for yesterday? I’m sure it was thousands of dollars.

I know about the cost of litigation having overseen legal budgets and I don’t think lively is getting a ‘deal’ at all from Gottlieb. His firms billing rates are certainly in the big law range, maybe a drop or two below. Very pricey. And as someone said, BL has money but not billionaire money. This has got to hurt. Freedman is likely less expensive by a decent amount, but certainly not cheap. Of course what happened yesterday cost at least a few thousand dollars but freedman played it well and it was a home run. Lively tried to quash the subpoena, he went on record explaining why he was seeking this somewhat unusual request (law firm to law firm communications) and it was HUGE. Money well spent, as opposed to lively’s side which has likely squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more on a case she can’t win that has tanked her life.

Much more. I'm quite confident just counting the six months from December 2024 to May 2025 has cost Blake and Ryan several million dollars in attorney, expert, consulting, and PR billings. And if we're being frank, it's pretty obvious, to me, this scheme dates back much further than December 2024, so who the heck knows how much they blew orchestrating this whole thing.

I seriously hope Blake has a designated settlement counsel on her legal team. She should settle up with JB by mutual withdrawals, a positive joint statement and a confidential $ settlement, and she can agree to cooperate with his NYT case. NYT is a deep pocket with insurance.

Lolol! You are living in an alternate reality. That is the funniest thing I have seen all day!

No, I am just not a grifter grifting off people. This is the best way out for her. I’ve overseen enough ugly litigations to know how this will play out. Things are not going to get better for her.

I agree. 100%. I'd actually love to see how Arlington Mom or any of the pro-lively people think this is going to go and I'd particularly be interested in the insight that DOES incorporate a PR angle. I think its weirdly disingenuous to act like this is a case played out between Norma the gas attendant from the Piggly Wiggly and her boss, the night manager. It's just...not that. We can get into all of the motions and minutiae, but I have a really hard time seeing her (really anyone, but especially her) coming out on top in any tangible way. Lawyers will! Maybe PR (not hers though, those people have been asleep at the wheel). This is so ugly and I dont see a path forward for her.

Agree. They clearly have no smoking gun at this point. It’s going to be really hard to explain, why if she felt so uncomfortable, she was still sending flirty texts, still going out of her way to get his favorite tea order, etc. And I think there’s going to be a lot more back-and-forth revealed about when when she sprung the list of 17 complaints on them after the strike. I’m betting Sony really pressured him to just sign and move forward. I’m betting that there is a lot of documentation that they don’t believe these incidents occurred in the way she described. I also think women are going to be pissed that she didn’t try to put up a boundary with him if they were in fact so close. We’re going to see a lot more of him with her children, her trusting them to hold her baby and be with her kids. He specifically said he left out all those photos out of respect for her children’s privacy, but that obviously is going to have to come out in a court case, and I think people are going to question, if you are so comfortable with him, why would you not just send a text, look I’m really uncomfortable with the way things are going and I would like XYZ to happen - Rather than waiting months and coming up with a list as a first step - it just doesn’t make sense.

This is really not going to sit well with a jury or with the public. And the fact that they’re on a Hollywood set, she was getting paid $3 million for what amounted to a total of probably 6 weeks of work (she was not present when young Lily shot any of her scenes, which was a third of the movie) and being able to prance around in designer clothes. It’s just not relatable at all. She leveraged her power at every turn, she had the upper hand throughout, this is not typical in a sexual harassment case and simply not relatable or believable.

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Anonymous wrote:lol yeah the Baldoni supporters are all totally “organic”

Baldoni people keep talking about how much money Lively is spending, but I suspect Sarowitz is spending a comparable amount. They have all these MTDs to defend and they seem behind on discovery. True, Freedman seems to have fewer lawyers, so maybe they will bill fewer hours over the same period of time. I guess that’s why they’re clearly unable to keep up the pace of Lively’s and are turning in such crappy work product. I wonder how much Freedman billed Baldoni for yesterday? I’m sure it was thousands of dollars.

I know about the cost of litigation having overseen legal budgets and I don’t think lively is getting a ‘deal’ at all from Gottlieb. His firms billing rates are certainly in the big law range, maybe a drop or two below. Very pricey. And as someone said, BL has money but not billionaire money. This has got to hurt. Freedman is likely less expensive by a decent amount, but certainly not cheap. Of course what happened yesterday cost at least a few thousand dollars but freedman played it well and it was a home run. Lively tried to quash the subpoena, he went on record explaining why he was seeking this somewhat unusual request (law firm to law firm communications) and it was HUGE. Money well spent, as opposed to lively’s side which has likely squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more on a case she can’t win that has tanked her life.

Much more. I'm quite confident just counting the six months from December 2024 to May 2025 has cost Blake and Ryan several million dollars in attorney, expert, consulting, and PR billings. And if we're being frank, it's pretty obvious, to me, this scheme dates back much further than December 2024, so who the heck knows how much they blew orchestrating this whole thing.

I seriously hope Blake has a designated settlement counsel on her legal team. She should settle up with JB by mutual withdrawals, a positive joint statement and a confidential $ settlement, and she can agree to cooperate with his NYT case. NYT is a deep pocket with insurance.

Lolol! You are living in an alternate reality. That is the funniest thing I have seen all day!

No, I am just not a grifter grifting off people. This is the best way out for her. I’ve overseen enough ugly litigations to know how this will play out. Things are not going to get better for her.

I agree. 100%. I'd actually love to see how Arlington Mom or any of the pro-lively people think this is going to go and I'd particularly be interested in the insight that DOES incorporate a PR angle. I think its weirdly disingenuous to act like this is a case played out between Norma the gas attendant from the Piggly Wiggly and her boss, the night manager. It's just...not that. We can get into all of the motions and minutiae, but I have a really hard time seeing her (really anyone, but especially her) coming out on top in any tangible way. Lawyers will! Maybe PR (not hers though, those people have been asleep at the wheel). This is so ugly and I dont see a path forward for her.

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Anonymous wrote:lol yeah the Baldoni supporters are all totally “organic”

Baldoni people keep talking about how much money Lively is spending, but I suspect Sarowitz is spending a comparable amount. They have all these MTDs to defend and they seem behind on discovery. True, Freedman seems to have fewer lawyers, so maybe they will bill fewer hours over the same period of time. I guess that’s why they’re clearly unable to keep up the pace of Lively’s and are turning in such crappy work product. I wonder how much Freedman billed Baldoni for yesterday? I’m sure it was thousands of dollars.

I know about the cost of litigation having overseen legal budgets and I don’t think lively is getting a ‘deal’ at all from Gottlieb. His firms billing rates are certainly in the big law range, maybe a drop or two below. Very pricey. And as someone said, BL has money but not billionaire money. This has got to hurt. Freedman is likely less expensive by a decent amount, but certainly not cheap. Of course what happened yesterday cost at least a few thousand dollars but freedman played it well and it was a home run. Lively tried to quash the subpoena, he went on record explaining why he was seeking this somewhat unusual request (law firm to law firm communications) and it was HUGE. Money well spent, as opposed to lively’s side which has likely squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more on a case she can’t win that has tanked her life.

Much more. I'm quite confident just counting the six months from December 2024 to May 2025 has cost Blake and Ryan several million dollars in attorney, expert, consulting, and PR billings. And if we're being frank, it's pretty obvious, to me, this scheme dates back much further than December 2024, so who the heck knows how much they blew orchestrating this whole thing.

I seriously hope Blake has a designated settlement counsel on her legal team. She should settle up with JB by mutual withdrawals, a positive joint statement and a confidential $ settlement, and she can agree to cooperate with his NYT case. NYT is a deep pocket with insurance.

Lolol! You are living in an alternate reality. That is the funniest thing I have seen all day!

No, I am just not a grifter grifting off people. This is the best way out for her. I’ve overseen enough ugly litigations to know how this will play out. Things are not going to get better for her.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake is Will Smith at the Oscars. She was on top of the world. Best box office she’d ever had in her life. And she throws it all away for vengeance.

Even worse, unlike Smith who smacked Chris Rock in a heat of passion, Lively had time to think about this. She plotted for months. Filed fake lawsuits and got fake subpoenas. Asked friends to cover her tracks and delete their texts. She poured gasoline all around the house and then lit the match from the inside.

Meanwhile JB’s texts show he was praying for Blake and Ryan. His friends stand by him and pay the bill. Blake’s friends flee in disgust forcing the disgraced actress to seek alliances with the likes of Salma Hayek, Sherilyn Ifill and Paul Feig, all baby boomers who have no clue what’s going on because they only read mainstream media. She wasn’t invited to Gigi’s 30th but at least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th.

Ryan, Blake and presumably also Ari figured Jason would immediately lay down and Blake would segue to A list victim with a lifestyle brand. These egomaniacs plotted this for months. They never suspected Jason was so prepared to fight back.

I wonder if they even knew his actual first name. Justin.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake is Will Smith at the Oscars. She was on top of the world. Best box office she’d ever had in her life. And she throws it all away for vengeance.

Even worse, unlike Smith who smacked Chris Rock in a heat of passion, Lively had time to think about this. She plotted for months. Filed fake lawsuits and got fake subpoenas. Asked friends to cover her tracks and delete their texts. She poured gasoline all around the house and then lit the match from the inside.

Meanwhile JB’s texts show he was praying for Blake and Ryan. His friends stand by him and pay the bill. Blake’s friends flee in disgust forcing the disgraced actress to seek alliances with the likes of Salma Hayek, Sherilyn Ifill and Paul Feig, all baby boomers who have no clue what’s going on because they only read mainstream media. She wasn’t invited to Gigi’s 30th but at least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th.

lmao goddamn

At least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th had me howling.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the same person posting over and over? I just tried to read some of this thread and can’t believe there are this many people this invested in Blake Lively. Or “not” invested?

I know! Who spends their whole Friday night on DCUM attacking Blake Lively? lol. Have fun!

Anonymous wrote:Blake is Will Smith at the Oscars. She was on top of the world. Best box office she’d ever had in her life. And she throws it all away for vengeance.

Even worse, unlike Smith who smacked Chris Rock in a heat of passion, Lively had time to think about this. She plotted for months. Filed fake lawsuits and got fake subpoenas. Asked friends to cover her tracks and delete their texts. She poured gasoline all around the house and then lit the match from the inside.

Meanwhile JB’s texts show he was praying for Blake and Ryan. His friends stand by him and pay the bill. Blake’s friends flee in disgust forcing the disgraced actress to seek alliances with the likes of Salma Hayek, Sherilyn Ifill and Paul Feig, all baby boomers who have no clue what’s going on because they only read mainstream media. She wasn’t invited to Gigi’s 30th but at least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th.

lmao goddamn

Anonymous wrote:Blake is Will Smith at the Oscars. She was on top of the world. Best box office she’d ever had in her life. And she throws it all away for vengeance.

Even worse, unlike Smith who smacked Chris Rock in a heat of passion, Lively had time to think about this. She plotted for months. Filed fake lawsuits and got fake subpoenas. Asked friends to cover her tracks and delete their texts. She poured gasoline all around the house and then lit the match from the inside.

Meanwhile JB’s texts show he was praying for Blake and Ryan. His friends stand by him and pay the bill. Blake’s friends flee in disgust forcing the disgraced actress to seek alliances with the likes of Salma Hayek, Sherilyn Ifill and Paul Feig, all baby boomers who have no clue what’s going on because they only read mainstream media. She wasn’t invited to Gigi’s 30th but at least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th.

Ryan, Blake and presumably also Ari figured Jason would immediately lay down and Blake would segue to A list victim with a lifestyle brand. These egomaniacs plotted this for months. They never suspected Jason was so prepared to fight back.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the same person posting over and over? I just tried to read some of this thread and can’t believe there are this many people this invested in Blake Lively. Or “not” invested?

C’mon, we’re on page 676. Of course it’s not 1 person!!

Anonymous wrote:Is this the same person posting over and over? I just tried to read some of this thread and can’t believe there are this many people this invested in Blake Lively. Or “not” invested?

I don’t care about anyone involved. However, I do find it entertaining when karma finally catches up to ruthless psychos.

Is this the same person posting over and over? I just tried to read some of this thread and can’t believe there are this many people this invested in Blake Lively. Or “not” invested?

Blake is Will Smith at the Oscars. She was on top of the world. Best box office she’d ever had in her life. And she throws it all away for vengeance.

Even worse, unlike Smith who smacked Chris Rock in a heat of passion, Lively had time to think about this. She plotted for months. Filed fake lawsuits and got fake subpoenas. Asked friends to cover her tracks and delete their texts. She poured gasoline all around the house and then lit the match from the inside.

Meanwhile JB’s texts show he was praying for Blake and Ryan. His friends stand by him and pay the bill. Blake’s friends flee in disgust forcing the disgraced actress to seek alliances with the likes of Salma Hayek, Sherilyn Ifill and Paul Feig, all baby boomers who have no clue what’s going on because they only read mainstream media. She wasn’t invited to Gigi’s 30th but at least there’s hope for Selma’s 60th.