That threatened Swift for support

Mexico City.-The legal team of Justin Baldoni accused Blake Lively lawyer to threaten to publish private text messages, apparently among the actress of breaking the circle and Taylor Swift, if the pop superstar did not publicly support the actress in her current legal battle with her co-star.
The director’s defense indicates in judicial documents that the main litigator of Lively, Michael Gottlieb, supposedly made the lawsuit to Venable, the law firm that represents Swift.
“He demanded that Mrs. Swift publish a declaration of support to Mrs. Lively, insinuating that, if Mrs. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature would be published in the possession of Mrs. Lively,” according to the file to which Page Six had access.
Gottlieb emphatically denied these accusations to the US site, describing them as “categorically false.”
“We flatly denied all these supposed accusations, which are cowardly based on alleged anonymous sources and are completely disconnected from reality,” he said in his own name and Lively’s.
Baldoni’s lawyers and his company, Wayfarer Studios, also stated in their demand that Gossip Girl’s star asked the singer of “Blank Space” to erase her text messages. Although they did not indicate when the alleged demands were made.
“(A swift representative) addressed these inappropriate and apparently extortion threats in at least one written communication transmitted to Mr. Gottlieb.”
“It is those communications that the Wayfarer parties seek to obtain through citation, since they would evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a insightful witness in this litigation,” they claimed.
The actress’s representatives pointed out that Baldoni’s lawyers like to “shoot first, without any evidence and regardless of the people who damage in the process.”
After the revelation, Lively’s legal team presented a motion to eliminate accusations, according to judicial documents obtained by Page Six.
This statement arises after the motion that Blake and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, made to cancel a summons that Baldoni’s team presented to the lawyers of the interpreter of “Look What You Made Me do” in Venable.
The law firm responded to the summons stating that they had “nothing to do with the film in question or with any of the claims or defenses alleged in the underlying lawsuit.”
“There is no reason for this citation beyond distracting the attention of the facts of the case and imposing an improper charge and expenses to someone who is not a part,” added the signature based in Washington, DC, according to Billboard.
The legal action undertaken against Venable occurs after the Swift itself was cited last week, because according to Baldoni she is involved in the attempts of her former co -star of affirming her control over her film break the circle.
Baldoni contradicted Lively for defamation and extortion after she demanded him for sexual harassment and other accusations and will go to trial in March 2026.