Baldoni’s past – Hidden racial discrimination for a lawsuit

However, it was not the first time that Baldoni or his company, Wayfarer Studios, was accused of abuse.

Shocking legal documents reveal in 2020, a former employee claimed that Baldoni and his company fired him because of his race and punished him for the pursuit of legal steps.

Four years before his legal battle with Lively, 37, Shane Norman was introduced as general manager of Baldoni’s husband enough brand, which produces his popular podcast and promotes the fight against poisonous masculinity.

But by the end of the year, Norman had lost his salary of $ 225,000 a year and was released.

In December 2020, the court papers, Norman, a black man, explosive claims that accused them of misleading him about his employment contract held him to racial discrimination and wrongly shooting and Wiering against him after he had expressed concern.

In his archives, Norman said that Baldoni, co-owner of the company, was sympathetic when he expressed concern about feeling the target because of his race.

He even claimed: “(Justin’s) reaction was to be supportive” and “his work prices.” The Jane de Virag Star even said to Norman: “He wants (Ed) to continue to work with him.”

Baldoni and his company, however, denied the allegations of the employee, against Norman was an AT-Willem employee with performance problems that his colleagues opposed. The case was eventually rejected in April 2022 without any recognition of misconduct.

A source added: “Justin must be feared that this lawsuit would rise again and that it would throw him in an even darker light” in the midst of his legal problems with Lively.

In January, details came again from a case from 2021 that was submitted by screenwriter Travis Flores, who accused the actor to tear his story and script for Three -feet For his 2019 directing debut Five feet apart.

The case was arranged and rejected in 2022.

The carefully made public image of Baldoni is still being questioned when additional claims come to the surface.

A source explained: “Justin fights for his reputation and livelihood.

“It just looks bad to let these allegations come out of the woodwork at a time when his legal fight with Blake becomes more ugly.”

On February 18, Lively Lively, the lawyers filed a changed complaint against Baldoni with 50 pages with details about what she says, making the film 2024 based on the novel by Colleen Hoover about domestic violence.

Lively claimed that two other women were “made uncomfortable” by Baldoni’s “unwanted behavior” on the set and were willing to testify.

In May 2023, the changed complaint stated that a woman “transferred her feelings (to a Sony Pictures Entertainment Rep and a producer) that suffered the work on the film as a result of the behavior of Mr Baldoni.”

A source added: “He has always tried to present himself as a progressive man, and it is in contradiction with what he stands for. It is simply more harmful negativity that he does not need.”