Justin Baldoni hits back at co-star Blake Lively in £327m lawsuit

Actor and manager Justin Baldoni has deed backmost astatine Blake Lively, his co-star successful the movie It Ends With Us, by filing a suit against her and her hubby Ryan Reynolds.

It comes aft Lively filed a ineligible complaint against Baldoni successful December, alleging intersexual harassment and that helium had campaigned to "destroy" her reputation.

Now, Baldoni has responded by suing for $400m (£326m) damages connected claims of civilian extortion, defamation and penetration of privacy, according to US media.

Representatives for Lively, Reynolds and their publicist, who is besides named successful the case, are yet to respond to Baldoni's lawsuit.

In the latest measurement successful their bitter ineligible battle, lawyers for Baldoni, 40, has claimed Lively and her squad made a "duplicitous effort to destroy" him.

His lawyer Bryan Freedman said the histrion and her partners had disseminated "grossly edited, unsubstantiated, caller and doctored accusation to the media".

He besides said Lively and her squad had "attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons".

The quality stems from the accumulation of It Ends With Us, which was adapted from a caller astir home maltreatment by Colleen Hoover.

Released past August, the movie was a container bureau success, bringing successful much than $350m (£280m) globally.

But it appeared connected the property circuit that each was not good betwixt the co-stars, who were not pictured connected the reddish carpet unneurotic during the premiere successful New York, with Baldoni skipping 1 successful London altogether.

Four months aft the film's launch, Lively filed a ineligible ailment against Baldoni, accusing him and the brag of his workplace Wayfarer of intersexual harassment positive "other disturbing behaviour" and a "hostile enactment environment" connected set.

Lively's ailment went further, claiming that Baldoni and his situation absorption squad had deliberately acceptable retired to ruin her estimation online.

Baldoni's ineligible squad told the BBC astatine the clip the allegations were "categorically false", and said they hired a situation manager due to the fact that Lively had threatened to derail the movie unless her demands were met.

Now, Baldoni is alleging successful his 179-page ailment that helium is not astatine fault, and that the high-profile conflict is "not a lawsuit astir celebrities sniping astatine each different successful the press".

"When plaintiffs person their time successful court, the assemblage volition recognise that adjacent the astir almighty personage cannot crook the information to her will," it said.