‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE4.R0NZ.zdvRBAwb_MZ1&smid=re-nytimes

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  1. Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint laying out an alleged campaign to tarnish her reputation after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.” A New York Times investigation shows how the fallout unfolded.

    Read the full piece for free, even without a subscription, [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE4.R0NZ.zdvRBAwb_MZ1&smid=re-nytimes).

  2. William Gibson wrote about this in a science fiction novel 40 years ago.

  4. Wonder if Ryan Reynolds can make this a big enough issue that Spider-Man reverts back to Marvel, truly making him Marvel Jesus.

  5. So many people automatically siding with him with zero evidence however if there are texts and contracts then i believe this will be pretty open and shut in lively’s favor

  6. Horrible. And the damage to her reputation has been done. The post about her suing him for sexual harassment is filled with people calling her an awful person and implying that she’s a liar. 

  7. I think the way Lively treated the woman journalist is appalling.

    And I think that what was done to Lively by these men and their hired gender traitors is appalling.

    These two opinions can peacefully coexist.

    There’s a special place in hell for women who choose to enable and protect men who harm women.

  8. They can but to do it to Ryan Reynolds’ wife in 2024 is a… choice

  9. Holy moly Justin Baldoni is an outrageous piece of shit.

  10. And this is just one actor. How many more can’t complain about this behaviour?

    There was a recent article on how Brad Pitt attempts to rehab his image, pretty much sending out stories about Angelina. She was already a homewrecker from before, with Pitt shouldering zero responsibility for his cheating actions.

    Someone has insight from the entertainment world – are all the “entertainment” magazines and shows like People, Vanity Fair, ET like this? Call in a favour for a story? Pay for stories?

  13. There was an insane amount of anti Blake posts a few months ago and you could tell it was totally inorganic, popping up on all kinds of random subs 

  14. He’s an awful person. But guess what, so is she and the public hate towards her was already there for real reasons.

    She’s not a great actress anyway, plenty of talented women available who don’t shit on people they work with who will fill her shoes easily.

  15. Chat are yall gonna jump me if I say this instant dissolution of dude’s name and career coordinated with a variety of thinkpieces ready to go across every major media platform kinda seems like the burying in question

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