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WME Drops Justin Baldoni After Blake Lively’s Sexual Harassment Claims

Variety
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WME drops director Justin Baldoni after Blake Lively files sexual harassment complaint, signaling agency's swift action amid Hollywood's reckoning with misconduct.
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  • Blake Lively, star of the upcoming film adaptation of Baldoni's romance novel 'It Ends with Us', filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment and retaliation against the director
  • Baldoni was informed of WME's decision to drop him just one day after Lively's complaint, underscoring the agency's zero-tolerance policy in the post-#MeToo era
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Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, WME, It Ends with Us
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