Justin Baldoni has just received a response from The New York Times After continuing them for defamation.
While the director and the actor remains taken in a fierce battle against Blake Lively in the infamous It ends with us trial, he accused the outlet in his modified defamation trial of $ 400 million of having received early access to Gossip Girl complaint for harassment of the old against him.
In the updated trial, the Baldoni team mentioned that an analysis of the source code HTML of the article revealed references to a “messaging generator” dated “2024-10-31”, although the article was not published not before December 2024.
In response, The New York Times indicated, according to Justjared“Baldoni / Wayfarer’s legal deposits are inaccuracies on The New York Timesincluding, for example, the false Time had early access to the civil rights complaint in Ms. Lively’s state. »»
“Mr. Baldoni lawyers base their erroneous complaint on the publications of amateur Internet Sleuths, which, without surprise, are wrong,” they continued.
The spokesperson for The New York Times Also specified: “The problem: this date is generated by Google Software and is not linked to the date when Time I received and posted it. An overview of the metadata of the published document correctly shows that it was published after Ms. Lively deposited it with the California civil rights department. »»
This comes in response to Justin Baldoni and his legal team, mentioning in their counter-communion against It ends with us Co-star, Blake Lively, “Of course, the New York Times It just happens to load a new tool to integrate text messages in an article as part of routine system upgrades, only to trip six weeks later at the ideal opportunity to show this new graphic tool in an article that rested strongly on the cropped chise of text messages. »»
“But the simpler explanation is that the New York Times had already started to build his defamatory article no later than October 31, 2024, in particular by developing a new elegant graphic display module to highlight the text messages published and streaked to the context centered in the article, ”said The costume.
