Blake Lively’s legal team is responding to Justin Baldoni’s move to sue The New York Times over an explosive article detailing her complaints against him.

On Tuesday, Dec. 31, Baldoni was among plaintiffs who filed an 87-page complaint over a Dec. 21 Times article concerning Lively suing her It Ends with Us director-costar, 40, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign against her. Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios, business partners and public relations team, sued the publication for $250 million, alleging libel, false light invasion of privacy, promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract.

“Nothing in this lawsuit changes anything about the claims advanced in Ms. Lively’s California Civil Rights Department Complaint,” said attorneys for Lively, 37, in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “While we will not litigate this matter in the press, we do encourage people to read Ms. Lively’s complaint in its entirety. We look forward to addressing each and every one of Wayfarer’s allegations in court.”

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Following her Dec. 21 complaint, Lively escalated her own legal action by officially filing a federal complaint, against Wayfarer Studios and others involved in producing It Ends with Us, in the Southern District of New York.

“Wayfarer and its associates have violated federal and California state law by retaliating against her for reporting sexual harassment and workplace safety concerns,” the actress-producer’s attorneys said in a statement about the federal complaint. “Ms. Lively has brought this litigation in New York, where much of the relevant activities described in the Complaint took place, but we reserve the right to pursue further action in other venues and jurisdictions as appropriate under the law.”

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Many of the allegations in Lively’s initial complaint concern administrative complaints she made against Baldoni during the filming of the Colleen Hoover screen adaptation. Lively’s legal team accused Baldoni’s Times lawsuit of having an “obviously false premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a ruse based on a choice ‘not to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer,’ and that ‘litigation was never her ultimate goal.’”

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Of Lively’s lawsuit, Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, said in a Dec. 31 statement to PEOPLE, “In this vicious smear campaign fully orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team, the New York Times cowered to the wants and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites,” referring to Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds.

Among Lively’s allegations in her lawsuit: Baldoni — a married father of two who has positioned himself as an ally to women and domestic abuse survivors in numerous interviews — walked into her makeup trailer uninvited while she was breast-feeding; talked about a previous pornography addiction; alluded to past non-consensual sexual encounters and asked Lively to divulge details of her own “intimate life.”

Baldoni’s complaint alleges it was Lively “who engaged in a calculated smear campaign” and lists multiple examples refuting claims that were allegedly made out of context, including one alleged text message from Lively that read, “I’m just pumping in my trailer if you wanna work out our lines.” Baldoni responded, per his complaint, “Copy. Eating with crew and will head that way,” which the lawsuit claims shows Baldoni did not enter uninvited.

In a statement to the Times on Dec. 21, Lively said, “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.”

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