It Ends With Use actor and director Justin Baldoni has filed a 250 million dollar lawsuit against the New York Times over its reportage that followed Blake Lively's sexual harassment lawsuit. Baldoni filed the case at the Los Angeles Superior Court. The actor-filmmaker is among a group of 10 plaintiffs that also includes publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel who are suing the newspaper for libel and false light invasion of privacy over the Dec. 21 article titled “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.”

The plaintiff also included 'It Ends With Us' producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz. The lawsuit has claimed that the Times 'cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”