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Blake Lively has hired a PR crisis manager with deep government ties as her legal battle with Justin Baldoni escalates. The actress, who is suing and being sued by her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, is quietly working with Nick Shapiro, the CIA’s former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to former director John Brennan. Shapiro is not without controversy. He was one of a group of 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed the widely cited and subsequently criticized 2020 open letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian...

After attending CPAC for the first time last year for a Q&A session with host Mercedes Schlapp, Megyn was back in Washington, D.C., on Friday to deliver a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. During her remarks, Megyn made a connection between how the left and media has been gaslighting the American public for the last decade and the ongoing legal saga between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. You can read the transcript of Megyn’s speech (edited for length and clarity) below:

Allegedly false statements from Leslie Sloane of Vision PR include assertions that the "whole cast doesn't like Justin" and that "Blake was sexually assaulted." She says they aren't defamatory.Blake Lively‘s public relations representative is arguing that she should be dismissed from the legal standoff between the actress and Justin Baldoni because she never defamed the It Ends With Us director. Leslie Sloane of Vision PR, in a motion filed in New York federal court on Thursday, says that the allegedly false statements cited in Baldoni’s lawsuit are opinions that can’t be subject to a defamation claim. She also argues that...

The filing also included other demands, like, “No more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by BL outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project.” Per the demands, the cast and crew of It Ends With Us were under a contractual obligation to promote the film as they had previously determined would focus “more on Lily’s [Lively’s character] strength and resilience as opposed to describing the film as a story about domestic violence.” They were also supposed to “avoid talking about this film that makes it feel sad or heavy [sic]—it’s...