Allegedly false statements from Leslie Sloane of Vision PR include assertions that the "whole cast doesn't like Justin" and that "Blake was sexually assaulted." She says they aren't defamatory.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' publicist Leslie Sloane filed a motion to dismiss, asking to be removed from Justin Baldoni's $400 million lawsuit. In the filing, her lawyers say Lively 'bravely spoke up about Baldoni’s predatory behavior.

Blake Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloane is asking to be released from Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against them and Ryan Reynolds.

Baldoni denied the allegations and subsequently filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively, Sloan and Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds. Baldoni accused the group of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and other claims.

Blake Lively's longtime publicist, Leslie Sloane, is seeking to be removed from the $400 million lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, arguing that she was wrongfully implicated in a legal battle stemming from Lively's allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation against Baldoni and his associates.