Blake Lively’s attorneys just filed an amended complaint against Justin Baldoni in the Gossip Girl veteran’s sexual harassment and smear campaign case against her It Ends With Us co-star and director, just minutes before the court-imposed deadline of midnight ET.

With more women mentioned in the amendment, the blast radius from this battle—which was already very broad in the legal and cultural landscape—just got much larger.

Additionally, Lively has added a defamation claim and civil conspiracy in her 141-page FAC (First Amended Complaint) to this tale of alleged misconduct, money, astroturfing, and career crash and burn, with no settlement in sight, mediation rejected by all parties, and contested telecomm subpoenas. In addition, Jed Wallace, the founder of Crisis PR firm Street Relations, is one of two new, but not surprising, defendants.

Other Women

Perhaps more significantly, several women are listed in this complaint, which is 48 pages longer than the one Lively initially submitted on New Year’s Eve. Other women who were allegedly harmed by Baldoni’s and his Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath’s activities. People whose identities are now omitted from the paper but who want to testify at the trial in federal court in New York City beginning next year.

In an attempt to have Baldoni’s revised complaint dismissed, Lively’s amended complaint highlights the retaliation and harassment she described in earlier filings. It says:

The Defendants’ retaliation campaign has created a dangerous environment of threats, harassment, and intimidation, forcing Ms. Lively to change both her personal and professional life and take action to shield innocent bystanders from harm rather than putting them in danger. As a result, neither the names of specific witnesses nor screen grabs of their text messages are mentioned in this amended complaint. Crucially, however, these witnesses will testify and provide responsive documents during the discovery process, and they have granted Ms. Lively permission to reveal the content of their communications in this Amended Complaint as described herein.

According to Livley’s recent petition, distributor Sony’s Ange Giannetti was aware of the discomfort Lively and other women were reportedly experiencing on IEWU. It continues by saying:

The clear fact that Ms. Lively was not alone in her complaints about Mr. Baldoni and voiced her concerns contemporaneously as they developed in 2023, not in connection with some fictitious power struggle for control of the film in 2024, further significantly undermines the Defendants’ fraudulent story. Beginning in May 2023, Ms. Lively’s and other people’s experiences were recorded as they happened. Importantly, Mr. Baldoni acknowledged the concerns in writing at the time, which runs counter to the entire story the defendants have created. He was aware that other ladies, besides Ms. Lively, had shown discomfort and had voiced their displeasure with his actions.

Additionally, today’s amended complaint aims to highlight the stakes in some very real and potentially frightening ways, as many of the meetings, incidents, and copied text messages from Lively’s initial court filing at the end of last year (such as the apparent derailment of “the long-planned launch of her haircare line, Blake Brown” due to the alleged online smear campaign) are repeated:

“Ms. Lively, her family, other cast members, and several fact witnesses have all received upsetting threats as a result of the defendants’ activities, which have fostered such a poisonous atmosphere of online hate speech against them. This kind of atmosphere was the expected, if not inevitable, outcome of the retaliatory campaign started by the Baldoni-Wayfarer parties, both before and after the litigation started. One witness who was known to openly support Ms. Lively recently received a written threat stating that the witness’s family would be sexually assaulted and killed unless the witness agreed to “make a statement and give the truth.”

Tuesday’s documents from Lively replace her NYE suit that followed the December 20 filing in California’s Civil Rights department, much like the January 31 FAC that Baldoni and crew filed against Lively and Ryan Reynolds for extortion and defamation, replacing their original $400 million complaint of January 16. New defendants were added to both Lively’s and Baldoni’s FACs. After suing each of them separately for $250 million on December 31, the Jane the Virgin actress took action against the New York Times. The actress from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants brought on board Wallace, the head of Street Relations and alleged social media manipulator, along with Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, its CEO, and its moneyman, as well as publicists Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan and Nathan’s The

However, the defamation claim now takes on an even more pointed role — with the former Megyn Kelly lawyer named very specifically — after Judge Lewis J. Liman rejected a sought protective order against lead Team Baldoni lawyer Bryan Freedman during the case’s first actual hearing earlier this month. The section on the defamation claim states that “it is reasonably interpreted that Wayfarer, Baldoni, and Heath, through their agents, including Bryan Freedman, published statements about Ms. Lively that she fabricated claims of harassment and filed false claims of harassment with the Civil Rights Department of the State of California and with this Court.”

Lively’s Camp Issues A Statement

Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, Lively’s principal lawyers, gave Deadline an overview of the current situation and their outlook for the case shortly before Wednesday ET, when the FAC was added to the court docket.

“Ms. Today, Lively submitted an amended complaint that offers much more proof and support for her initial allegations. This evidence consists of previously unknown communications between Ms. Lively, Wayfarer and Sony personnel, and a host of other witnesses. In addition to evidence describing the threats, harassment, and intimidation of not only Ms. Lively but also a number of innocent bystanders who followed the defendants’ retaliatory campaign, the complaint contains substantial contemporaneous evidence that Ms. Lively was not alone in making accusations of misconduct on-set more than a year before the film was edited.

In addition to adding Jed Wallace and his business as defendants, the updated lawsuit includes a new defamation claim based on the defendants’ repeated false remarks about Ms. Lively since she filed her initial complaint.

We will move quickly to dismiss the completely baseless lawsuits against Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynolds over the course of the next few weeks. We also anticipate that the discovery process will yield startling information about the extent to which the Defendants have descended in their ceaseless attempts to “bury,” “ruin,” and “destroy” Ms. Lively and her family.

When Deadline asked for comment on Lively’s updated case, representatives for Baldoni, the other defendants, Freedman, and Sony did not reply. We will update this site if any of them do.