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Because it seems, the Blake Vigorous-Justin Baldoni authorized saga truly can get crazier.
And it’s all due to Taylor Swift.
The actress and the singer have been shut pals for years, after all, however that friendship has been in an surprising highlight over the previous few months as a result of Vigorous ongoing lawsuit battle with It Ends With Us co-star Baldoni.
(Vigorous has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of that film, whereas Baldoni has countered with documentation that claims Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity crew conspired to defame and extort him.)
Taylor Swift and Blake Vigorous cheer previous to the sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on October 01, 2023 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photograph by Elsa/Getty Photographs)
Minimize to Might 14 and a brand new twist on this authorized struggle.
5 days after Swift was subpoenaed to testify within the upcoming trial between Vigorous and Baldoni — as a result of the latter alleges that the artist was current for a gathering on the former’s penthouse, throughout which Baldoni felt pressured to simply accept sure script modifications — Baldoni’s lawyer stated that Vigorous “demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively.”
On this new courtroom submitting, Baldoni’s lawyer cites a “source who is highly likely to have reliable information” and this data facilities on Vigorous having requested Swift to delete textual content message associated, we presume, to Baldoni’s case towards the film star.
One other allegation included within the letter?
That Vigorous’s lawyer contacted Swift’s lawyer “and demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively” — whereas additionally “intimating that if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.”
Taylor Swift attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photographs for The Recording Academy)
Sure, it is a manner of alleging that Blake Vigorous has tried to blackmail Taylor Swift with the general public unveiling of seemingly embarrassing textual content messages if Swift does NOT come out to the world and help her buddy.
In a scathing response, Vigorous lawyer Michael Gottlieb slammed the accusation on Wednesday as “categorically false” and “cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality.”
He continued:
“That is what we’ve got come to anticipate from the Wayfarer events’ attorneys, who seem to like nothing greater than capturing first, with none proof, and with no take care of the folks they’re harming within the course of.
“We will imminently file motions with the court to hold these attorneys accountable for their misconduct here.”
Justin Baldoni attends the “It Ends With Us” New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Sq. Theater on August 06, 2024 in New York Metropolis. attends the “It Ends With Us” New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Sq. Theater on August 6, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Cindy Ord/Getty Photographs)
Vigorous’s camp went on to file a letter of its personal to Decide Liman, asking for Baldoni’s aforementioned accusation to be struck from the file.
“On behalf of our client, Blake Lively, we respectfully move to strike the letter signed by Mr. Bryan Freedman and filed earlier today,” reads this official observe.
“That letter, which was not filed with any evidentiary help of any variety, a lot much less something beneath oath, falsely accuses Ms. Vigorous, and her counsel, of partaking in ‘witness tampering and evidence spoliation’ based mostly on an undisclosed nameless supply.
“It needs to be pointless to reply to anonymously sourced, baseless, allegations recklessly leveled with none supporting proof. It’s value stating for the file, nonetheless, that every of the allegations within the Freedman Letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false.
“As a legal matter, the Freedman Letter is improper. It does not seek any form of relief, is irrelevant to any motion currently pending before the Court, and serves no legitimate purpose. It is not useful to the Court in any respect.”
Blake Vigorous and Ryan Reynolds attend the 2025 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Heart on April 24, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photographs for TIME)
From what we’ve heard, Vigorous’s relationship with Swift has been impacted by these back-and-forth lawsuits and allegations.
Again in January, as par tof Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit, the actor included texts between Vigorous and Baldoni by which Vigorous seems to consult with Swift as “one of her dragons.”
Therefore why his authorized crew is making an attempt to pull the wildly standard into this authorized mess.
This assertion reads as follows:
“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or artistic choices, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see ‘It Ends With Us’ till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the most important tour in historical past.
“Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
