Update 05/14/2025 at 6:57 pm – The legal team of Blake Lively presented a new motion to request that the claims of Justin Baldoni About her friend Taylor Swiftyou can confirm Us Weekly.
In the letter obtained by UsLively’s team said that Baldoni’s letter was presented without “probative support of any kind.”
“It should be unnecessary to respond to unfounded accusations, made recklessly and without any evidence of support,” says the note. “However, it is worth noting that each of the accusations in Freedman’s letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false.”
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Justin Baldoni’s legal team He maintains that Blake Lively supposedly tried that her friend Taylor Swift He will publicly support his side in his ongoing litigation.
The Baldoni team recently summoned Swift, 35, for its supposed involvement in the case, that Lively, 37, and their lawyers have requested to dismiss. In a new judicial letter obtained by Us WeeklyBaldoni’s lawyers claim that Lively urged Swift to erase any personal text message.
Bryan FreedmanBaldoni’s lawyer also claimed that one of Lively’s lawyers also demanded that Swift publicly issue a statement of support and, if not, women’s texts would be publicly disclosed. Freedman believes that such threats are evidence of “an attempt to intimidate and coerce a face -to -face witness in this litigation.” However, Fredman’s team did not present any evidence of the proposed statements.
Meanwhile, a Lively lawyer denied the latest accusations.
“This is categorically false. We unequivocally deny all these supposed accusations, which have a cowardly source in anonymous assumptions, and completely detached from reality,” said his lawyer Mike Gottlieb to Us In a statement. “This is what we expect from the lawyers of the Wayfarer parts, who seem to love nothing more than shoot first, without any evidence and without worrying about the people they are damaging in the process. We will impending imminently motions before the court to hold these lawyers responsible for their misconduct here.”
Lively demanded Baldoni, 41, for sexual harassment, foster a hostile work environment and try to ruin his reputation, deriving from his experience working on It ends with us of 2024. Lively starred in the film and was also an executive producer. Meanwhile, Baldoni also had a leading role opposite to Lively and directed the project.
Baldoni denied Lively’s claims, finally submitting a defamation of $ 400 million against the former actress of Gossip Girl And her husband, Ryan Reynoldsearlier this year. His legal team has repeatedly stated that Swift was secretly involved in the alleged production control by Lively. A citation sent to Swift earlier this month was, according to Freedman, aimed at collecting any evidence that pointed to the pop star supporting Lively. (Lively and Reynolds, 48, have denied the accusations of Baldoni).
“Taylor Swift never stepped on the set of this film, she was not involved in any casting or creative decision, she did not compose the music, she never saw an edition or made notes about the movie,” said a Swift spokesman for Us In a statement on Friday, May 9. “He didn’t even see It ends with us Until weeks after its public premiere, and was traveling around the world for 2023 and 2024 leading the biggest tour in history. ”
The representative added: “Taylor’s connection with this film was to allow the use of a song, ‘My Tears Ricochet’. Since his participation was to license a song for the film, what another 19 artists did, this citation of documents is designed to use the name of Taylor Swift to attract public interest creating tabloid lures instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
Swift has not publicly addressed the demand of Baldoni and Lively, with a source revealing in the latest edition of Us Weekly that his friendship with the actress has “tensioned” as a result of the legal battle.
“His friendship is not what he used to be,” said an informant to Us. “Taylor is very uncomfortable for being dragged to demand. It is a big problem now.”
