OMG - This is TOO CRINGE !!
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Summary
Blake Lively was out and about in New York yesterday, showing off her Fendi bag, posing with fans who didn't know who she was. Also, a big expose about her and Ryan's finances in the Daily Mail. And we have to talk about how Blake and Ryan might be dragged into court again.
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And you can hear this woman in the background asking Blake, tell me your name one more time.
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Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk. I'm Jashti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on the illusion.
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I have my little friend back here today, Oscar.
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He just wanted to say hello and take a little nap while I'm doing this episode.
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Anyway, so many things have happened since yesterday.
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Blake Lively was out and about in New York showing off her Fendi bag, posing with fans
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Also, there's a big expose about her and Ryan's finances in the Daily Mail.
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Yeah, it seems like they didn't pay their workers and they owe over $2 million.
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And we have to talk about how Blake and Ryan might be dragged into court again.
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Because as you know, this drama is far from over.
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So as I said, Blake finally went to the Fendi store in New York yesterday.
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They had, according to the Daily Mail, a star-studded event,
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which I'll get into shortly because I couldn't really find many stars at this event.
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but Blake Lively showed up for the photographers outside and she was posing with everyone who
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wanted a photo with her which wasn't a lot of people to be honest with you but I found some
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of these videos online this morning and it really made me laugh here is one video where Blake Lively
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is posing next to this woman or talking to this woman who seemed like she's some tourist from
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somewhere and you could hear her in the background this is what made me laugh tell me your name one
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more time. And Blake says, Blake Lively. And in the same clip, you can hear someone else in the
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background saying, is she an actress? Yes, so Blake Lively is not an A-list star, and she never was.
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And this, I guess, is proof of that, that people don't really know who she is or doesn't really care.
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There are a lot of little clips from her coming out of the store and going into the store.
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And when she walked to her car, her waiting car outside, there's this video of a couple of people posing with her.
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One looks like a road worker or something who holds a camera in front of his face while someone else, I think, is taking a picture.
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And then the guy who is actually shooting this says in the background, what a sweetheart.
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Thank you so much for coming to the show because now we're out of here.
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I feel like that is the last word in anyone's vocabulary who knows this case by now is the
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last word that they would use to describe Blake Lively. She is not a sweetheart but in this moment
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she acted like one. Obviously she's so nice to everyone now. She takes the time, she goes out
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of a way to take a photo of this other woman and then oscar is leaving yeah he had enough yeah he
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gave up early but anyways all the comments of course online are not disappointing either comments
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like these on the e-news stories as you know e-news is the number one outlet that blake and
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her reps call when they want a nicey story about blake lively they haven't written any critical
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pieces on her throughout this entire drama. They love Blake Lively. I'll get into that later as
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well in this episode. But here they posted a video from the event saying Blake Lively arrives at
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Fendi's celebration of the baguettes. So it's the baguette bag, obviously. This is how much she
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cares. This is what she decides to spend her time doing now, by the way, after she's come out
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publicly or her attorneys have come out publicly and said, this fight is not over. Blake continues
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this fight for other survivors of digital violence. And here she is showing off a Fendi baguette bag.
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Okay, who's that helping? Anyways, there are some of the comments on the E! Online or E! News
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Instagram post. Someone says someone writes who cares button and pointing over to the heart.
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and that has 964 likes then there is someone saying nobody wants this justice for justy
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baldoni cancelled maybe she can get one of her kids to draw on one of those bags because she's
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so shy remember she said that at the med gala we don't accept justice for justin like nothing
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happened absurd justin we love you someone says love you blake here by the way and it's got 17
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comments underneath. So I'm guessing people don't agree with that. And then someone says,
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boo. And then someone, I'm guessing, working for Blake here saying, gorgeous, be out and about,
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girl. You don't owe the haters nada. Strengthen up your crown, strengthen up your crown and keep
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moving. Okay, five people like that. And then someone says, she's out here like she didn't
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cry wolf. And that's got 480 likes. Blake is gorgeous and brave, not only a great actress,
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but also a role model for all of us, says someone here.
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no matter how horrible his actions would have been.
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I'm loving this attitude and boldness that Blake is giving us.
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That's someone else I'm imagining in her office.
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I mean, these people who are still supporting Blake Lively,
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I don't know what planet they're living on or under which rock they're living.
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Because at this point, when she gave up everything, like, get real.
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Anyways, every single Instagram post or reel from this event
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is just flooded with people criticizing or hating on Blake Lively.
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and they said that Blake Lively puts Justin Baldoni's settlement behind her
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as she steps out for star-studded Fendi event in New York.
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There wasn't any other stars there except Olivia Wilde.
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It was only so-called Nepo babies who attended this event.
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I'm sure their parents were invited to the event and they were like,
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Right now, there's so much else going on in this world that's more important to me.
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So Lisa Rinna, the real housewife of Beverly Hills, she sent her daughter.
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And the heiress and model Ivy Getty was there.
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I guess she has a lot of money to buy Fendi bags.
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and then also Nepo baby Deacon Reese Filippe, the 22-year-old son of actor Reese Witherspoon
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and Ryan Filippe. They were there. So I wouldn't call this a star-studded event. And as you can see
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from the videos outside, there weren't really any fans gathering outside either. So this whole
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article in the Daily Mail showing pictures of Blake Lively basically says that she was on this
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event and then they go through everything in this lawsuit, again reminding everyone that she
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got zero dollars from Justin Baldoni and she dropped her lawsuit and she lost 10 out of her
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13 claims, just reminding everyone what really happened here. So yes, another tone-deaf stunt
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from Blake Lively. According to her lawyers, as you know, when she's not showing up at Fendi
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stores with a baguette bag, she is working really hard to change the laws all over America so other
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people can also abuse the legal system and blame it on other people when they are unpopular on the
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internet and sue them for millions and millions of dollars and then she's pushing this law as you
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know to make sure that they can't be sued back and if that happens they will get attorney's fees
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covered. That is Blake Lively's fight for humanity right now. Okay so let's look at how much money
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get into it. The creator who actually broke this story, Katie from Without a Crystal Ball, is not
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mentioned in this Daily Mail article which I don't think it's cool because I remember people sent me
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her video that she posted a couple of days ago and then the Daily Mail picked up the story and
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did this exclusive story on it which is not very cool. Anyways, here's the title from the Daily
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Mail saying, ugly behind the scenes reality of Blake Lively's paradise compound, unpaid workers,
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a $2 million debt, and humiliating new questions she and Ryan Reynolds must now face. So it's not
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news to me that they're not paying their workers. I remember a person that I spoke to in the
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beginning of all this mess, who told me in confidence that they own a farm somewhere.
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They didn't want me to reveal details, but Blake Lively had stayed at this farm and took
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writing lessons there with her children, and she never paid the bill. And this person didn't want
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to go after them because they're big celebrities, and they thought, you know, it could harm our
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business but they didn't pay and this seems like a reoccurring thing for them to just like not pay
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people because as you know they're above everyone else and they're early stars so why would they
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even pay someone I was just on the phone with someone else that I'm hoping to get on my channel
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very soon who told me their experience working with Ryan Reynolds on a movie it's mind-blowing
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Anyways, let's get into this mess, this financial mess that Blake and Ryan is in right now.
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It says here that Blake and Ryan's sprawling upstate New York dream compound has been hit
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with more than $2.1 million in unpaid contractor debt, raising fresh questions about what has
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been going on behind the scenes at the couple's long-delayed mega project. The Hollywood power
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couple, I wouldn't call them a power couple anymore, but anyways, quietly purchased the South
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Salem property, a ritzy hamlet in the town of Lewisboro, 60 miles north of Manhattan,
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through an LLC back in 2018. They do all these shady little things through their LLCs always,
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so that they won't have any personal liability in anything that they do.
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Anyways, they snapped up some surrounding parcels
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to create what Lively once described during a planning board hearing
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as a beautiful buffer for their growing family,
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despite already owning a 5.7 million home eight miles away in Pound Ridge.
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So they say here, the gossip girl gushed over the secluded 110 acre estate,
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calling it heaven and the most beautiful place in the world, claiming she and Reynolds plan to build
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an environmentally conscious luxury retreat where our neighbors will never see us. I hope for the
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neighbors' sake that they will never see them. But their ultra-private dream compound has instead
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turned into an eight-year luxury construction saga now plagued by more than 2.1 million in
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contractor liens and allegations of unpaid work. And here they're saying that by April 2026,
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they owed a staggering $2,108,856.63. And here they obtained the papers from the biggest claim,
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which is FlowCon Inc., doing business as flower construction, which filed a massive lien of
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$1,356,157. So they say here that the construction is thought to have continued into the late of
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2025 before grinding to a halt in December or early in 2026. And they're pointing out that
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Lively was telling the planning board, the town planning board, there's actually a Zoom video
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where she's with all these people planning around this estate that she was desperate to get
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to get shovels in the ground and be living on this land and she said that in 2022 four years ago
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and here they're listing all the things that they've sought approval for around this building
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a pool pool house gym septic system storm water management facilities blah blah blah according to
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this article she told the town board in 2022 that we love this land so much we're so grateful to
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have this land and to have such space and such privacy. It's like, why would they care if she
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wants privacy or not? That's not their concern. Like, why would they care about how much privacy
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she wants or how much space she wants? I mean, these are regular people. Did she expect them to
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have some sympathy with us? I don't know. And then they're talking about this Zoom call here where
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Blake was telling the town how important all of this was for her. And their lawyer apparently was
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also on this zoom call and he also said that the couple planned to make this property their primary
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residence with their with their four children and they're pointing out here in Blake's book
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in this zoom meeting she said that she's a huge fan of history you can't make this stuff up so
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that's why they decided to keep a cottage and other structures and just build all the other
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stuff around it. Wow, how noble. She's a fan of history. I guess we found that out when she
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launched her brand Perverse, I mean Preserve, and the clothing line where she was glamorizing
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slavery. And that wasn't very well received. But anyways, and according to the Zoom call here as
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well, they're saying that Lively herself added that she and Reynolds didn't want to be tyrannical
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and try to just buy up every bit of land available, but purchase the extra land as a beautiful
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buffer. I mean everything that these people do is just so tone deaf. I actually received some
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more information about this from one of my sources and the person said that you should look into the
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cabin in Heber, Utah that has been in foreclosure multiple times where Elaine lives. Elaine is
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Blake Lively's mother and she lives in Utah. Jason Lively, who is Blake Lively's brother,
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his property was apparently also just in foreclosure and Bart and Robin, Robin is Blake
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Lively's sister as you know, bought their house in Burbank from Blake's parents in either a short
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sale or a foreclosure and Bart's house in Midway, Utah that is currently a rehab center is in legal
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battles constantly and he can't afford that house unless there's tenants in it. And the person said
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if you speak to any of the tenants or their neighbors there, I'm sure they're going to give
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you an earful. And the person said that this family is known for dodging payments and not
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paying their bills. So yeah, I'm sure there are many more people out there who have worked with
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these people who have been hired by Blake and Ryan who never got paid. By the way, this story
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came up again for some reason today, because it's a year ago today that this story was published on
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page six. Blake Lively accused of creating insane, toxic, emotionally draining workplace at now
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defunct lifestyle brand. Remember, it all came out how Ryan Reynolds was a tyrant and how people
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there didn't get paid as well. People working for Blake Lively. It says here that six former
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staffers at Blake Lively's defunct lifestyle company, Preserve, are breaking their silence
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on the alleged toxic, unprofessional, and chaotic workplace they experienced.
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The entire company was an absolute disaster, a staffer said.
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The workplace allegations that Blake is making now against Justin are deeply ironic,
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given that it was one of the most insane, toxic, emotionally draining,
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and disorganized environments you could imagine.
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And it's said here that Lively's brother, Eric Lively,
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who was reportedly hired to be the creative director of the company was allegedly also
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careless with his role and often overslept leaving many staffers to wait outside in the cold before
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they were let into the Manhattan studio apartment where the company was based. Former staffers also
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claimed that they had to sit on the floor of the studio for months before furnitures arrived and
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then someone said her Eric her brother was completely unqualified to run a company and
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ex-employee alleged there were a lot of ways in which the employment was unprofessional for many
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weeks or months there were no desks the irony of it being lifestyle site that was selling these
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really expensive wares was not was not lost on anyone and it says here that according to the
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report some staffers allegedly received settlements up to three hundred thousand dollars after
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threatening legal actions over their mistreatments. However, all of the company's inner turmoil stayed
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under wraps due to Blake's longtime publicist, Leslie Sloan, per their former staffers. Leslie
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Sloan shut it down. One worker claimed they buried every single thing from that company.
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I also remember reading that Ryan Reynolds stopped by from time to time yelling at people,
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which we've now learned is part of his job description as a husband
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Anyways, there's another story today in International Business Time
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saying that why Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds may still be dragged into court
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Yes, so we have to remember there are still more legal drama going on here
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and they're mentioning here the lawsuit between the publicists,
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you know, Stephanie Jones and Jennifer Abel, who are suing each other here, which of course involves
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how Blake Lively got hold of Jennifer Abel's phone. Jennifer Abel, as you know, was Justin
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Baldoni's publicist at the time, and Stephanie Jones owned the company where Jennifer Abel worked.
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And when Jennifer Abel left the company, Stephanie Jones kept her phone, or basically actually took
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her phone away from her, promising her that she would get it back, which never happened, by the
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and according to Jennifer Abel they had access to her phone over a year later where they can go in
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and read all her medical records they could have access to her bank they basically stole all her
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personal information from her and her access to her phone and she never received it back this is
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a really really interesting lawsuit and as they're saying here in international business times that
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Blake and Ryan might have to testify. They might be subpoenaed again in this case. I'm sure they
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will. We haven't started discovery yet, as far as I know. There hasn't been any new filings for
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this case, but it is an ongoing case, and the judge has allowed most of Jennifer Abel's claims
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against Stephanie Jones to move forward. And here in this story, they actually have a source saying
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the last thing Blake and Ryan wants is to testify. Yeah, I believe that. They don't want to testify
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in this case but then they added here this source that the couple would nonetheless comply if the
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judge orders it there is nothing in the paperwork confirming that they will definitely be called
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and no hearing date has yet been fixed for any such depositions so for now that prospects remain
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speculative rather than settled all right before i go here i wanted to mention this ridiculous
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article in e online or in on e news i would be so embarrassed if i worked for e news and i had
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to write these kind of articles. I mean, seriously. Look at this headline. You will XOXO Blake Lively
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sleek look at Fendi event. Blake Lively stepped out in style at Fendi event May 19 wearing a
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classic beige trench coat over a black tank top matching jeans and pointed toe heels. You know
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you love Blake Lively's style. We don't. Yeah, we don't like Blake Lively's style. The internet
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don't like Blake Lively's style. I thought at least that was one thing that everyone agreed on
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after watching her horrific wardrobe choices for It Ends With Us. We don't like her style,
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E! News. And again, they're calling her the Gossip Girl alum. It's been 20 years since Gossip Girl,
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i think but that's still her claim to fame anyways once again showed off her refined sense
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of fashion at a fendi event in new york city stepping out in a classic beige trench coat
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blah blah blah now they've said that twice already okay she completed her look with a
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marquise diamond necklace and of course a fendi baguette bag but the outfit was much more subtle
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than what she wore at the 2026 met gala earlier this month when she ascended off the iconic
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staircases in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a colorful vintage Versace gown.
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And then they go on about what she said on the red carpet at the Met Gala and that her kids had
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painted the bag for her, blah, blah, blah. And then they do mention a little bit about the lawsuit.
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And the reason why they do that is because they want this article to show up when people are
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googling the lawsuit to remind everyone that this is just a minor part of who Blake Lively really
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is and that was settled and now she's recovered as a survivor so she's out there again and this
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is what you have to remember her for you have to remember her for her style and they're making
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sure that we will remember her for her style because then they're saying for a closer look
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at Blake's evolution through the years, read on. And then they have a bunch of pictures of Blake
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Lively wearing different outfits. Bravo, E! News! Amazing reporting. Okay, that's it for us, you
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