Justin Baldoni says he now has cold hard proof Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds had it out for him several months before she dropped her Christmas surprise lawsuit against him ...
so, now he's updating his lawsuit against them. According to new docs, obtained by TMZ, Justin alleges the "malicious and recklesss" defamation of his character started at least as early as October 31 -- it's got nothing to do with Halloween, and everything to do with the metadata embed in the New York Times article about Blake's lawsuit against Justin. Here's their evidence .
.. Justin's team claims observers of the article found "viewing the HTML source code for the article revealed references to a 'message-embed-generator' that referred to a date of '2024-10-31.
'" So, in layman's terms, and in Justin's lawsuit ...
he says that shows the NYT started building the allegedly defamatory article no later than October 31 -- the date the outlet developed a tool to display the text messages which were such a prominent part of Blake's lawsuit and the Times article about it. Team Baldoni says that's significant because the elements behind the now infamous article "strip away the legal shields that Lively, the Times, and other Lively Parties were likely relying on to protect their malicious acts of defamation." As we've reported, Justin is suing the NYT for $400 million -- separate from his suit against Blake and Ryan -- alleging the outlet cherry-picked and doctored text messages in its article, and colluded w.