Who Is Jamey Heath? Why He’s Named in Blake Vigorous’s ‘It Ends With Us’ Grievance

It Ends With Us producer Jamey Heath has been accused of “disturbing” misconduct by the film’s star Blake Lively.

Heath was named alongside the movie’s director — and Vigorous’s costar — Justin Baldoni within the Dec. 20 criticism, which alleged that the actress was topic to “invasive, unwelcome, unprofessional and sexually inappropriate conduct” from each the producer and director.

Heath is the CEO of Wayfarer Studios, a manufacturing firm co-founded by Baldoni and billionaire investor Steve Sarowitz. Heath and Baldoni even have an in depth private friendship — Baldoni referred to the producer as his “finest pal” in a November 2024 birthday tribute — and are co-hosts of the Man Sufficient podcast.

On Dec. 20, Baldoni’s It Ends With Us costar Vigorous accused him and Heath of “disturbing” and “unprofessional” behavior on set, together with sharing their “private sexual experiences” and exhibiting a “surprising lack of boundaries” by getting into the actress’s trailer “uninvited.”

Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s lawyer, instructed PEOPLE in a press release that Vigorous’s allegations had been “false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly damage.” PEOPLE reached out to Heath for remark.

Here is all the pieces to find out about Jamey Heath and what he has been accused of in Vigorous’s criticism.

He’s the CEO of Wayfarer Studios

Heath acquired his begin within the leisure trade as a songwriter and producer for stars like Solange, Chaka Khan, Andy Grammer and Idina Menzel.

In 2021, he teamed up with Baldoni to work on his and Sarowitz’s manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios. He held quite a lot of positions earlier than turning into the president in September 2021, per his LinkedIn.

The studio has funded a number of tasks along with 2024’s It Ends With Us, together with this 12 months’s Will Ferrell’s Netflix documentary Will & Harper and The Garfield Film. Per its website, Wayfarer “strives to harness the ability of storytelling to champion inspirational tales that act as true brokers for social change.”

He’s married and a father to 4 kids

Heath married his spouse, Natasha Heath, on Sept. 29, 2013, and the pair have welcomed two kids — Day and Breakwell — since. Heath can also be a father to his two older youngsters, daughter Jazmin and son Nakhjavani, the previous of which made the producer a grandfather in 2023 with the beginning of her son Kaedon.

Heath’s spouse was talked about in Vigorous’s criticism, with the actress alleging that the producer confirmed her and her on-set assistant a graphic and “absolutely nude” video of his spouse giving beginning — which Vigorous initially thought was “pornography” — with out consent. Vigorous claimed that when she requested Heath if his spouse knew he was sharing the video, he replied, “She is not bizarre about these items.”

Heath co-hosts a podcast about exploring gender roles

Heath, Baldoni and their fellow co-host, journalist Liz Plank first launched their Man Sufficient podcast in June 2021. Per its website, the present “explores what it means to be a person at present” and challenges stereotypical gender roles.

The hosts have welcomed company from Drake Bell to Anthony Ramos and have had open conversations about how expectations of masculinity have impacted their lives. Previous episodes have touched on matters from consent on a first date to why it’s hard for men to cry.

“Man Sufficient is a dialog,” Baldoni stated of the present in a March 2022 trailer. “Undefining conventional gender roles that we have been taught eternally.”

Following the submitting, Plank announced she was leaving the podcast on Dec. 23, writing in a press release to PEOPLE that she had her “representatives inform Wayfarer that I’ll not be co-hosting.”

“As this chapter closes for me, I stay dedicated to the values we’ve constructed collectively,” she stated, addressing her listeners. “Thanks for being right here, for trusting me, and for being by my facet for the final 4 years. All of us deserve higher, and I do know that collectively, we will create it.”

He’s “finest pals” with Baldoni

As podcast co-hosts and enterprise collaborators, Baldoni and Heath have developed an in depth relationship exterior of the office as effectively. In his birthday tribute for Heath, Baldoni opened up about how his companion is “the most effective pals I’ve ever had in my complete life.”

“You make me a greater husband, you make me a greater father,” he stated. “I like the way you mum or dad. You are the particular person I name at 3 within the morning after I’m having a panic assault … You make everybody round you higher.”

Within the caption of the TikTok submit, he added that Heath was the “motive” It Ends With Us existed and that he supported him by way of the movie-making course of.

“He is the one who saved me going, who all the time jogged my memory of my WHY when the winds acquired robust and I felt like I wasn’t sufficient,” Baldoni wrote.

Vigorous accused Heath and Baldoni of exhibiting a “surprising lack of boundaries” on the set of It Ends With Us

On Dec. 20, Vigorous filed a criticism towards Baldoni and Heath, and members of the previous’s PR group, alleging that they’d behaved inappropriately on set and, following her talking up, subsequently began a retaliatory smear campaign towards the actress.

Within the criticism, she alleges that the 2 shared their “private sexual experiences” with out her consent and pressured her to do the identical.

In one other occasion, when Vigorous requested a gathering with Heath to debate Baldoni’s actions on the second day of filming, she alleged that he “arrived unannounced” at her make-up trailer whereas she was “topless and having physique make-up eliminated by make-up artists.”

Although she requested they meet when she was clothed, Heath allegedly persevered. She let him in “however requested that Mr. Heath maintain his again turned,” which she stated he didn’t do as she observed him “staring immediately at her whereas she was topless.”

Such misconduct allegedly continued, as Vigorous recalled the “surprising lack of boundaries” exhibited by the pair once they repeatedly entered the actress’s trailer “uninvited” whereas she was undressed or “susceptible” and breastfeeding her toddler youngster.

In a scene the place Vigorous’s character Lily offers beginning, additionally they “immediately pressured Ms. Vigorous to simulate full nudity, regardless of no point out of nudity for this scene within the script, her contract, or in earlier artistic discussions,” the criticism alleged.

Vigorous allegedly arrange protections towards Heath and Baldoni whereas filming

To deal with her issues, Vigorous laid out an inventory of 30 protections in a January 2024 assembly with producers of the movie.

Two of the protections included had been “no extra improvising of kissing” and “no extra private, bodily touching of, or sexual feedback by, Mr Baldoni or Mr Heath to be tolerated by [Blake Lively] and/or any of her workers, in addition to any feminine solid or crew with out their categorical consent.”

Freedman, Baldoni’s lawyer, denied the accusations in a press release to PEOPLE, alleging that Vigorous prompted points throughout the filming of the film by “threatening to not present as much as set, threatening to not promote the movie, finally resulting in its demise throughout launch.”