{"id":2206141,"date":"2025-12-20T01:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206141"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:02:22","slug":"blake-livelys-lawyers-blast-justin-baldonis-lawyers-deposition-behavior-say-questions-about-her-sex-history-should-be-off-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/blake-livelys-lawyers-blast-justin-baldonis-lawyers-deposition-behavior-say-questions-about-her-sex-history-should-be-off-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively\u2019s Lawyers Blast Justin Baldoni\u2019s Lawyers\u2019 Deposition Behavior, Say Questions About Her Sex History Should Be Off Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0515116\/\">Blake Lively<\/a>\u2019s lawyers filed a motion for sanctions Friday against attorneys for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1682573\/\">Justin Baldoni<\/a>, accusing them of laughing, speechifying and engaging in other disruptive behavior during depositions.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyers have also complained about questions regarding Lively\u2019s romantic and sexual history, which they argue are irrelevant to her harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Baldoni and others involved in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10655524\/\">It Ends With Us<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Lively\u2019s sexual and\/or romantic history has no bearing on the matters at issue in this case and we will not tolerate such examination,\u201d her lawyers wrote to Baldoni\u2019s lawyers, including Bryan Freedman, in September.<\/p>\n<p>Lively\u2019s side invoked the \u201crape shield law,\u201d which protects victims of sexual assault from questions about their sexual history.<\/p>\n<p>The last straw apparently came on Monday, when, according to Lively\u2019s side, Freedman and co-counsel <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1884058\/\">Kevin Fritz<\/a> impeded and delayed the deposition of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2342224\/\">Nicole Alexander<\/a>, who is testifying as a defense expert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Lively\u2019s lawyers filed a motion for sanctions Friday against attorneys for Justin Baldoni, accusing them of laughing, speechifying and engaging in other disruptive behavior during depositions. Her lawyers have also complained about questions regarding Lively\u2019s romantic and sexual history, which they argue are irrelevant to her harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Baldoni and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2206141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blake-Livelys-Lawyers-Blast-Justin-Baldonis-Lawyers-Deposition-Behavior-Say.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206143,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206141\/revisions\/2206143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}