Blake Vigorous is sued by Texas disaster specialist in newest ‘It Ends With Us’ lawsuit

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A Texas disaster communications specialist has sued Blake Vigorous for defamation after the actor pulled him into her authorized struggle with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their movie, “It Ends With Us.”

Jed Wallace and his firm, Avenue Relations, filed the $7 million lawsuit in federal court docket in Texas on Tuesday. It says he had nothing to do with any marketing campaign to hurt Vigorous’s repute as she alleged in a court docket submitting.

Wallace will not be among the many defendants in Vigorous’s federal lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni, his manufacturing firm and publicists, through which she alleges sexual and different harassment in the course of the manufacturing and a marketing campaign to smear her after it. The disaster specialist is known as within the court docket papers and the New York Occasions story revealed on the day the sequence of authorized battles started in December when Vigorous filed a criticism.

Vigorous’s attorneys stated in an announcement that Wallace’s lawsuit “is not only a publicity stunt.”

“It’s clear retaliation in response to allegations contained inside a sexual harassment and retaliation criticism that Ms. Vigorous filed with the California Civil Rights Division,” the assertion stated. “Whereas this lawsuit might be dismissed, we’re happy that Mr. Wallace has lastly emerged from the shadows, and that he too might be held accountable in federal court docket.”

In a submitting final week in Hays County, Texas, that seeks a deposition from Wallace, Vigorous alleges he was utilized by publicists working with Baldoni to weaponize “a digital military across the nation, together with in New York and Los Angeles, to create, seed, manipulate, and advance disparaging content material that seemed to be genuine on social media platforms and web chat boards.”

Wallace’s lawsuit says neither he nor his firm “had something to do with the alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, failure to research or aiding and abetting the alleged harassment or alleged retaliation.”

It says the actor’s Texas submitting “conceded that Vigorous has no details supporting the allegations she made in opposition to Wallace and Avenue,” which is why she now seeks to research the extent of his conduct.

After Vigorous sued Baldoni, he filed his personal federal lawsuit in opposition to her and her husband, “Deadpool” star Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of defamation and extortion and in search of a minimum of $400 million in damages.

Baldoni had already sued The New York Occasions for libel, and his former publicist filed a lawsuit taking Vigorous’s facet.

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel that begins as a romance however takes a darkish flip into home violence, was launched in August, exceeding field workplace expectations with a home complete of almost $150 million. The success was adopted by close to fixed turmoil over its manufacturing and promotion.