Hollywood actress Blake Lively has hired a PR crisis manager with deep government ties as her legal battle with Justin Baldoni continues. The actress, who is suing and being counter 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. Lively filed a letter with the California Civil Rights Department in which she claimed that Baldoni sexually harassed her during the film’s production in 2023. The CRD letter, which also included allegations of Baldoni waging a 2024 smear campaign against Lively, became the basis of a New York Times report, kicking off a legal back and forth involving a group of more than a dozen people and companies. The director then sued the actress and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 million for civil extortion, defamation and other actions. In yet another lawsuit, Texas-based digital entrepreneur Jed Wallace filed a multi-million dollar suit against Blake Light in federal court for defamation.
