An intriguing twist in the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal battle. She has enlisted a CIA alum for crisis PR, and he was 1 of the 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed an open letter that called the Hunter Biden laptop a Russian disinfo op. https://t.co/ruF1NHd48w
— Tatiana Siegel (@TatianaSiegel27) February 28, 2025
Blake Lively has hired PR crisis manager Nick Shapiro in her ongoing legal problems
Shapiro is the former deputy chief of staff at the CIA, his self declared bio:
“[he has] helped lead the Obama Administration’s response to the H1N1 Pandemic, the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, the Gulf Oil Spill, the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, as well as numerous cyber attacks, data breaches, wildfires, floods, and hurricanes.”
he has been working in PR since 2015
the Variety article also mentions that there is uncertainty on how exactly Lively got the texts from Baldoni’s former publicist Stephanie Jones
and a legal update:
“The Subpoenas must be quashed to the extent they seek the phone records of the Wayfarer Parties,” ruled Judge Lewis J. Liman this morning, protecting [Justin] Baldoni and crew’s personal privacy and question why [Blake] Lively’s team needed to go back nearly two years when the… pic.twitter.com/1uea18KZO6
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) February 28, 2025
Lively wanted subpoenas for Baldoni’s phone data going back to 2022
The judge wants them to narrow the scope of the subpoenas
