Inside Ferrer’s Aug. 17 filing
The headline claims
Ferrer’s brief opens by calling Baldoni’s motion “another attempt … to harass” her, accusing his side of manipulating process and media coverage (pp. 1–2). It further states Baldoni’s legal team “has gone as far as citing a phony case, which Ms. Ferrer’s counsel discovered as an AI hallucination,” to defend a legal position about controlling Ferrer’s response to a prior subpoena (pp. 1–2).
“The condition … was a serious one. [Wayfarer] demanded that Ms. Ferrer confirm that she will ‘surrender control [of her response] to Wayferer’ ” (quoting a Feb. 28, 2025 letter; see p. 5 & n.2).
The filing recounts a months-long dispute over indemnity under Ferrer’s acting agreement. Ferrer says Wayfarer conditioned paying her legal costs on being able to control (or at least choose counsel for) her subpoena response to Lively, and later tried to make acceptance of a new Baldoni subpoena “a quid pro quo” for moving the indemnity process forward (pp. 4–7).
Context: Lively sued in December 2024, alleging Baldoni sexually harassed her, added sexual content she opposed, and then orchestrated a smear effort when she complained. Baldoni has pointed to Ferrer’s texts praising him—e.g., that he created a “comfortable, safe space”—to argue his conduct was proper; those messages surfaced widely in early 2025 coverage.
