Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s legal battle has reached a crescendo as their dueling lawsuits offer deeply contrasting perspectives. While Lively alleges that Baldoni sexually harassed her and then attacked her career by orchestrating a “smear” campaign against her with his publicist and crisis manager,

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.

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?