Baldoni's attorney told NBC News that the director-star plans to sue Lively over her claims about a smear campaign and sexual harassment: "The question really in this case is, does it rise to the level of sexual harassment?

MEDIA THE NEW YORK TIMES Broke Team Lively’s complaint about Baldoni, who has sued NYT for $250M for libel, alleging it relied on cherry-picked facts that portrayed the filmmaker in a false light.

The libel lawsuit accuses the Times of relying "almost entirely" on what it describes as "Lively's unverified and self-serving narrative."