WOW! It FINALLY happened !!! NY Times was wrong !!
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Finally, I have been vindicated. There are now legal documents saying that I had nothing to do with this alleged smear campaign. Also, let s break it down how Blake Lively keeps changing her story and TMZ keeps lying again, surprise, surprise. And did a wealthy, arrogant businessman who launders money inspire Blake and Ryan to create the name Van Zand for their shell company? I finally watched the PDD documentary and there are things there that makes me worry a little bit about Justin Baldoni.
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I'm Kersti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller, and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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It is official now in the legal documents that I had nothing to do with the alleged smear campaign.
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Also, let's break it down how Blake Lively keeps changing her story and TMZ lying again, surprise, surprise.
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And did a wealthy, arrogant businessman who launders money inspire Blake and Ryan to create the name Van Zand for their shell company?
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I finally watched the PDD documentary, and I have to say, there are things there that makes me worry a little bit about Baldoni.
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And today, the Golden Globes nomination are out, and there are so many reasons you should not care.
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There are now legal documents saying that I had nothing to do with this alleged smear campaign.
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Lively has not put forward any evidence to suggest the little bump video is not genuine,
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or that defendants had any contact with the reporter in the video.
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Plaintiff has responded to this saying undisputed.
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Everyone agrees that I just posted that video for my own free will as an independent journalist,
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and this makes New York Times look so horrible.
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I am still waiting for them to apologize for me for why they dragged me into that article
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without doing any due diligence, without reaching out to me, asking me if any of it was true.
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They just printed it because it fitted Blake's narrative.
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So, this morning, when I saw this, I sent them an email asking them if they can correct this article.
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And, of course, they're not going to do that because if they do, they have to admit
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that they didn't do the research that's required of them.
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Because if they admit that they didn't do their due diligence,
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it really takes away the credibility of the entire article.
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And if they don't come back to me, which is what I suspect will happen here,
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and they can take no accountability for their own mistakes.
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If you followed me last year, you know what happened to me when that article was published.
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I received so many threats via Instagram, via email.
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I couldn't open my emails during the entire time of Christmas.
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And he was deleting horrible, horrible, awful messages that I received on Instagram.
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Because people believed what they read in the New York Times.
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So, now that we know that there is no evidence that I had any contact with them
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I feel that's enough evidence for everyone to doubt everything that was printed in that article.
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But now everyone knows that I had nothing to do with it.
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And then everyone knows that the New York Times did not do their job.
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And why did they add me into that article, even with the picture?
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Because it fit their narrative that they were fed by Blake Lively.
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I will keep you posted if they respond to my email.
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They did respond to me when I reached out to them the first time,
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And then they added a statement there that didn't really make any difference
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So, the fact that they are willing to drag an innocent woman through the mud
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and smear her, me, without even thinking twice about it to check if it's actually true,
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And it really makes me doubt the credibility of all of their reporting.
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Okay, so let's get to the next media outlet that we cannot trust.
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I was randomly just watching this video, which they actually titled,
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This is about those headlines that were last week about Justin Baldoni
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admitting or telling Blake without her asking that he was circumcised.
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And one of the reporters, I don't remember his name,
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is having this conversation with Harvey, the editor, who's also a lawyer, as we know,
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on this live stream that TMZ has, I think, every day.
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There was a conversation one day while they were on set,
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This did not happen on the set of It Ends With Us.
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This happened five months prior to the beginning of the shoot.
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He's here saying that this happened on the set,
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which doesn't make any sense because it's been all over the media
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that there were even nannies present and even Blake's assistant was there.
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Ryan was coming in and out of the conversation.
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And now he's saying it was on the set of It Ends With Us.
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they keep talking about how this incident can be considered S-A-G,
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which Harvey actually says he doubts that this could ever be considered S-A-G.
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But this is just another example of how the media keeps twisting things around.
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I just think that, you know, they follow this case as long as I follow this case.
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They should look into the details before they report on it.
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In this room, one of our colleagues brought up the fact that,
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Have you listened to the lawyer that you hired in our office in the morning meeting?
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I remember reading about Van Zandt, the sham, the shell company that Ryan and Blake used
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to get the subpoena to Stephanie Jones so she could get hold of Jennifer Abel's phone,
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so she could give it to them, so they could give it to the New York Times and cherry pick
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a lot of text messages and create this story that no one believes anymore.
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Anyways, back then when we started realizing there was a sham lawsuit here,
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someone pointed out that the name Van Zandt came from Ryan being from Vancouver and Blake
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being from Tarzana, and they put them together.
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I just received this DM from someone who said that they just watched Heat, the movie,
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and there's a character here called Roger Van Zandt.
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The movie had Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in it as well, and it says his role in the film
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is a wealthy, arrogant businessman who launders money.
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This makes more sense to me than that they actually added together the names of the towns
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they're from, that they actually named the company after a criminal because that's what
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they were going to use this company for, and this is so Ryan Reynolds.
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This is his sense of humor, so thank you for sending me that.
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I'm going to re-watch Heat now and think about this.
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I haven't seen it in so many years, so thank you for sending me that.
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Okay, so let's get into how Blake Lively's story keeps changing here,
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All right, so let's get into this makeup trailer again, because Blake's story keeps changing
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And thanks to someone on Reddit who actually started comparing the versions of this story,
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And that's why I really wanted to talk about this, because I feel like when you're lying,
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you don't really remember what you said the first time, and sometimes things doesn't even
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And this is where her story just keeps falling apart.
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So this incident happened when Jamie Heath, Justin Baldoni, Alex Sachs, and one more person,
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I think, from the team or from Sony, went to Blake's trailer because they wanted to arrange
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So Blake, in her first amended complaint, explained it like this.
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To make matters worse, when Ms. Lively tried to have a meeting with Mr. Heat and the other
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producers to discuss Mr. Baldoni's unprofessional behavior described above, that meeting turned
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Interesting thing here, because she said that she invited them to talk about Baldoni's
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Later on, she said that this was the second day of filming.
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So she's basically saying that the first day is where all these violations happened.
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And as I'll talk about later, the Wayfair parties explain this situation very differently
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and say they were there to talk about wardrobe and not about misbehavior.
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Rather than an ordinary meeting time and place, Mr. Heat arrived unannounced that Ms. Lively's
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hair and makeup trailer while she was topless and having body makeup removed by a makeup
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Ms. Lively told Mr. Heat that she was almost done and they could meet once she was clothed.
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Mr. Heat, however, insisted that if she did not allow him into her trailer to speak to him
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at that moment, then there would be no meeting with the other producers.
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So he was kind of threatening her from the outside of this trailer.
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I doubt it after everything that happened at this point.
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And then it says, Ms. Lively reluctantly agreed but asked Mr. Heat to keep his back turned.
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If you reluctantly agree to let someone in, you do agree to let them into your trailer.
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And since she's now saying that they had this conversation while he was still outside,
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she hadn't let him in yet, she would have time to grab something and cover herself up
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And it says that a few minutes into the conversation, Ms. Lively noticed that Mr.
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Heath was staring directly at her while she was topless.
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How do you not notice that until after a few minutes?
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Were you not facing him so you could not see him and that's why you didn't notice that he
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Or did you actually have your back turned against him as well?
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And if you then noticed that he was looking at you, you must either have eyes in your back
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Because otherwise, how would you not notice that someone is looking at you and he's staring
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You know, it's not like he was really far away or anything like that.
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And then Blake explained that when she called him out, Mr.
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Heath brushed it off as a habit of wanting to look at a person while speaking to them.
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Lively and hair and makeup artists were all deeply disturbed by this interaction on just
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Yeah, so they're actually also saying here it's the second day.
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They don't even describe what that unprofessional behavior is.
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Anyways, in the New York Times article, it's described like this.
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And not saying that it was after she had given birth.
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Lively in her trailer when she was topless and having body makeup removed, despite her
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She said that both men repeatedly entered her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed,
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Okay, so he did not enter this trailer at this, the way she explained it already, uninvited.
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She said it was reluctant, but she did invite him in.
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And as we know, she did invite Justin into her trailer while she was pumping.
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And of course, the New York Times did not publish that text message.
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This is from the website and how they explain what happened there.
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They're saying that later that day, Lively text Baldoni to request another meeting with
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him and the other producers to discuss wardrobe.
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So she actually initiated this meeting and it was about wardrobe because as you know, at
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this point, she got so much backlash for her wardrobe and there were a lot of discussions
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Justin was not happy about her wardrobe choices either.
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After shooting, RAP's producer, Alex Sachs, Sony executive, Heath and Baldoni approached
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Remember, I spoke about the other day, Alex Sachs.
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And in there, she says that she don't remember anything from this incident.
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She don't recall anything that was, you know, anything notable.
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So, and she was there and she was outside the trailer where all of this happened.
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And she stood outside waiting when Jamie Heath went inside.
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Also, as the female producer, why didn't she just say, I go and talk to her because I'm
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And Baldoni's team explains, Heath knocked on the door and is invited in.
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Present in the room are Lively's nanny, makeup artist, and assistant while Lively's having
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As she claimed in her complaint, she was either nursing or pumping while fully covered.
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He didn't even notice if she was pumping or breastfeeding, meaning he didn't really
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look because he didn't pay attention to what she was doing.
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So we're going to have to see what her assistant, what her makeup artist, if she can get all
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of these people to support her in saying that she was topless.
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Lively asks Heath to face the wall while they determine a time to meet with the other producers
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Weeks later, Lively accuses Heath of making eye contact with her while she had asked him
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While Heath does not remember doing so, he sincerely apologized if he made momentarily eye contact
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with Lively while conversing, acknowledging that it was possible he may have out of habit.
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Lively stated that she didn't think he was trying to cop a look.
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Heath pleads with Lively to consider having a meeting the next morning to avoid her getting
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home too late and losing shoot time in the following day.
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The conversation in Lively's makeup trailer lasts only a couple of minutes and they agree
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to meet with the rest of the producers in her personal trailer.
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Ten minutes later, they meet and discuss the wardrobe at length.
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Any suggestions that Heath stared at her inappropriately is not only blatantly false, but also difficult
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Furthermore, Lively's complaint incorrectly states that Lively intended to speak with the
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producers about unprofessional behavior on this day.
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As this timeline shows, the allegedly inappropriate behavior Lively describes in her complaint
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And this conversation concerned only wardrobe and production.
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The thing is, when she's caught lying about these little things, it really harms her credibility
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As you know, a couple of weeks ago, Baldoni's team filed a motion for summary judgment and
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And this is how she explains the trailer incident in that response.
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He's intrusion into Lively's hair and makeup trailer and choice to show her a nude video at
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work after filming of the birth scene already had occurred or concluded.
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I haven't seen this before, that this has supposedly happened, that he showed that video to her after
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Each alone give rise to a tribal issue on harassment that precludes summary judgment.
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Any reasonable woman in Lively's position would be offended by having a supervisor look at her
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exposed breast or play a video of his admittedly wicked wife in the workplace.
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These experiences were degrading and humiliating in the extreme.
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Apparently, also, there are some testimonies from the makeup artists that Blake grabbed
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a cutting cape as soon as Jamie walked in and covered herself.
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So as you can see, Blake's stories keeps changing and they don't make much sense.
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And when she's going to try to explain what happened here in front of a jury and try to
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get the details right when she knows there are things here that basically never happened,
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it's so much harder to remember what you lied about than if you actually tell the truth.
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Okay, so yesterday I finished watching the PDD documentary on Netflix.
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It was a very disturbing experience and it took me so many nights to finish it because I could
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And I have to say, it made me a little worried about this case because there were two jury members
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that were interviewed in this documentary, one of them, a woman who was so obviously a huge
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She was smiling from ear to ear while she was talking about these witnesses and the things
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And this is what is so worrying when you put a celebrity on trial because people get so
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And they also interviewed another juror, an elderly man.
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I think he had an accent from like India or something like that.
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And it was so clear to me while he talked about this, that he has no clue about anything when
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it comes to women's psychology and victim behavior, because he kept saying that PDD and Cassie,
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who was dating for 10 years, had just a loving relationship.
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And it was so clear that they loved each other.
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Remember they met when Cassie was just 19 years old.
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This man probably never heard of the word grooming.
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And he was like, why didn't she leave if he was abusive towards her?
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Yes, so when you hear juror members talk like this, I think it's just so worrying that these
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people are responsible, have all this responsibility to have the power to decide the future of celebrity
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And I am so worried that the jury members in the Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni case
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I'm sure Ryan Reynolds is going to be in that courtroom every day and, you know, plant stories.
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They talked about how PDD's crew and how PDD's people were influencing all the people that were there,
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the influencers, the social media or content creators who were there.
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And they ate it up and they pushed it out there.
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And the jury members admitted that they watched those things,
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that they were, like, aware of what was going on on social media.
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Anyways, if you haven't watched it yet, it's really worth watching.
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And it really portrays the worst of the worst of a narcissist.
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And also what I find a little bit amusing, if there's anything amusing about this situation,
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is that Diddy had hired a cameraman who followed him up till the last few days before his arrest.
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And that footage was then given to 50 Cent or sold to 50 Cent to produce this documentary.
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And, of course, PDD and his lawyers are furious about it.
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Well, it turns out Diddy did not pay his cameraman and didn't have a contract with him.
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So it's fine for him to just give this or share this or sell this footage to anyone.
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My point is that Diddy was known for not paying people.
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He didn't pay them for all the work they did, producers that worked on his records.
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So many people, even one of the co-owners of his company, was screwed over.
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But at least this footage got out there because he was so cheap and he really deserves that.
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Anyways, I saw there are 77 civil cases still active against Diddy.
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And I don't know what's going to happen when he gets out of jail.
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I feel so sorry for all these victims who sacrificed so much to tell their side of the story here.
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And then just watching how he got away on so many of these points.
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And just for Cassie to know that this jury member is saying that, oh, there was just a love relationship.
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Another truly disturbing thing is to watch these eight lawyers that Diddy hired to defend him just lying in the media and just defending a monster like him.
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Anyways, as I said in the beginning of this video, the Golden Globes nominations are out and you should not care.
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I'm so happy that LA Times finally did a story on this again.
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They're saying today the Golden Globes ethics are worse than ever and no one seems to care.
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In the wake of a Times investigation that exposed the group self-dealing and ethical lapses and a complete lack of black representation among its membership, NBC pulled the ceremony of the air as Netflix and Amazon Studios and more than 100 publicity agencies cut ties with the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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Hollywood Foreign Press was there was the group of journalists behind the Golden Globes.
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Of course, they don't mention here that they only could write that expose to take them down because I sued them.
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Everything in that expose was taken out of my lawsuit against the Golden Globes.
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I sued them for their ethical lapses, for discrimination, for harassment, for bullying, for self-dealing, for all the things that they seemingly just got away with.
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So after this happened and they were taken off the air in 2020, they tried to fix their organization by just hiring a lot of expensive consultants and changing their bylaws and said that, oh, we won't do this anymore.
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And we're going to behave in front of celebrities because that was another thing that they were accused of.
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But then still they lost their TV deal with NBC.
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And then this billionaire comes along and he buys the Golden Globes.
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And through his firm Elgid Industries and his partner in Penske Media, they merged into Penske Media Eldridge.
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And this is where it gets really interesting because if you thought they were corrupt before,
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they were accused of accepting bribes, flown around the world in five-star hotels and getting all this access to celebrities.
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But at least they were a non-profit organization back then.
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But when Bowley bought the rights for the Golden Globes, he changed it to a for-profit.
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And here's the twist because his partner, Jay Penske, owns all the trade magazines in this town.
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And they're the ones writing about the Golden Globes.
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They're the one who profits from all the advertisements during award season when all these movies and production companies and studios are promoting their movies to win awards.
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They own the entire infrastructure around this award show.
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They also own the production company that produces this.
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They own a lot of production companies that have movies like A24.
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They also have ownership in the Beverly Hilton Hotel where the award show is aired from.
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And I've seen how these works are personal for so long.
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And I was thinking that probably things would change now after all of this controversy happened.
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But every single industry party I've been to, I've seen the publicist go up to the Golden Globes members,
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pull them away and put them in front of the celebrities and the talents.
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And then they arrange selfies with the stars and then they have little small talks.
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And then they try to influence them, obviously, to vote for their movies.
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And this is one of the things that all the celebrities were complaining about back then.
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They were like, we don't want to take selfies with these people anymore.
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So last year, Variety, which is also owned by them.
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So last year, this was a huge controversy and it just kind of disappeared.
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But they sent this out to people offering this Variety dinner hosted by Variety and the Golden Globes,
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both owned by the same person, and said that, you know, I think it was about $70,000.
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You could sit down and be a part of a conversation.
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And also, you would be able to sit down with 30 to 40 voters at an upscale dinner experience so you can try to convince them to vote for you.
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This year, it was already a scandal that they were offering this concierge service that you could buy a ticket to the Golden Globes for $75,000.
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I think you got a ticket and some spa experience or something, I don't know, a goodie bag for that amount of money.
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And then, oops, they just like, no, no, no, they just took it off the website.
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And they also added a podcast category this year.
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And this is even more hilarious because this short list of podcasts that they have nominated is done by a third-party data company called Luminate Data.
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So how are we supposed to believe, as audiences, that any of the winners of the Golden Globes actually deserves it?
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And in the podcast category, they have nominated a lot of conservatives, which I think is just because they try to make conservatives watch the Golden Globes, which I don't think is ever going to happen because a lot of the people who watch these shows on YouTube do not like Hollywood.
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So some of these nominees for Best Podcasts are Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Ben Shapiro.
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And the fact that these voters that are voting for Best Podcasts are people or journalists from all over the world, they have 300 voters.
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And as my friend who's Japanese told me the other day, she's like, no one in Japan listens to podcasts.
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How are they going to vote for the best podcast here?
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But what's really discouraging to me is to see how Hollywood just like accepted everything back to normal again, even though nothing changed.
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And as a lot of people that I spoke to lately at industry parties, they're saying like, they're worse than ever.
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If you missed my video with my experience with the Golden Globes, I will link those two videos below.
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They do remind me a lot about what's happening with Justin Baldoni now.
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And I feel like the Golden Globes is kind of like Blake and Ryan wrapped in an organization.
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And that's why I think I feel so passionate as well about justice being served in the case with Lively versus Baldoni.
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