In Blake Lively’s high-stakes legal and public relations war against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, she gained a major advantage just before Christmas by getting her side of the story broadcast in a 4,000-word New York Times story that went viral.
The story, “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine,” was pretty explosive and damaging to Baldoni, detailing Lively’s legal complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, in which she alleged that he conspired...