Taylor Swift cited in the demand of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

Taylor Swift has been cited in the current legal dispute Blake Lively and Justin Baldonibut a singer’s representative has criticized lawyers to involve her client.

“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this film, she was not involved in any casting or creative decision, she did not compose the soundtrack, never saw a assembly or made observations about the film,” said the representative in a statement to Us Weekly on Friday, May 9. “He didn’t even see It ends with us Until weeks after its public premiere, and was traveling all over the world for 2023 and 2024 leading the biggest tour in history. ”

The spokesman added: “The connection Taylor had with this movie was to allow the use of a song, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ Since his participation was to license a song for the film, which made another 19 artists, this documentary citation is designed to use the name of Taylor Swift to attract public interest creating sensational clicks instead of focusing on the facts of the case. ”

Days before the official citation, Lively’s lawyer Mike Gottlieb He criticized Baldoni’s legal team for planning Swift, 35, and possibly Hugh Jackman. “This is a case about what happened to Blake Lively when he denounced sexual harassment on the set,” he said in an interview with People Published on Thursday, May 8. “It is not a case about how the songs for the movie were chosen. It is not a case about fictional Marvel characters in films of Deadpool.

“Then, you have to ask the question, why are these people cited?” continuous. “Do they have any real relevance for the case in question? You cannot simply mention people because they are famous and it is thought that many headlines will generate. And the federal courts do not tolerate that type of behavior.”

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedmanhe responded to Gottlieb’s comments by saying: “Although obviously uncomfortable for Lively’s parts, the truth is not a distraction. The truth has been clearly demonstrated through receipts without editing, documents and recordings in real life. There will be more. Blake was the one who put his influential friends in this situation without worrying about his own personal or public rejection. As he shows the truth, she used her dragons to manipulate Justin to manipulate Justin in Every step. “

In the March edition of Us Weeklya source shared exclusively that Swift “was not happy to be dragged into the legal mess.” While the informant said that Swift does not want to be part of the case, a separate source said to Us In January that Grammy and Lively winner are still friends.

“It is not true that this has damaged its relationship,” the second informant shared. “They are still close friends.”

The legal battle between Lively and Baldoni was made public in December 2024 when Lively filed a demand for sexual harassment against his former cast partner and director. In the legal documents, Lively said that Baldoni and his team cited Swift as an example of the “instrumentalization of feminism” in its alleged plan to launch a campaign of defamation against it.

In a text message that appears in the countercount of $ 400 million from Baldoni against Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Lively publicist Leslie SloaneBaldoni said that Swift and Reynolds gave their opinion on a scourge scene between their characters and those of Lively. “I was working on the roof scene today, I really love what you did. It really helps a lot. It makes it much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt like that without Ryan and Taylor),” said his text message in legal documents obtained by US in January.

Both Lively and Baldoni and his teams have vehemently denied the accusations with each other, including Lively’s sexual harassment allegations against Baldoni and the director’s claims that Lively tried to take creative control of It ends with usamong many other sides.

The period of discovery prior to the trial is currently underway. A trial date for March 9, 2026 has been set.