They assure that Blake Lively extorta Taylor Swift to support her in her battle against Justin Baldoni

The judicial and media brawl between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni It is far from an end. This Thursday, the actor and director’s lawyers accused Ryan Reynolds’s wife of extorting her friend, singer Taylor Swift, to get involved in her defense.

The lawyers filed the complaint in a new judicial file, claiming that the actress threatened her friend to enter the battlefield. After Lively and Reynolds rejected a citation issued to Venable, the law firm that represents Swift, Baldoni’s lawyers responded in a letter to the judge, arguing why they believe that the citation is necessary in this case.

“The insistence of the defendants that the citation (the singer) seeks irrelevant information is wrong,” wrote Bryan Freedman, one of Baldoni’s lawyers in the new document presented to the judge. The lawyer received a message from a “source that probably has reliable information”, warning about “dirty” maneuvers from the actress.

Specifically, he accuses her of having asked Swift to erase all text, audio and mails messages in which they refer to the conflict that occurred during the filming of Break the circlethe film that starred with Baldoni.

The new brief includes another even more shocking accusation: he suggests that Lively’s lawyer contacted Swift’s lawyer “and demanded that the singer publish a statement of support” in addition to insinuating that “if he refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in the possession of Lively would be published.”

Freedman alleges that they were also informed that Swift’s legal representative responded to Lively’s lawyer and “approached these inappropriate and apparently extortive threats.” He adds: “It is those communications that the Wayfarer Studios (the company founded by Baldoni) seeks to obtain” as possible evidence of “an attempt to intimidate and coerce a insightful witness in this litigation.”

In a statement published by People, Lively’s lawyer, Mike Gottlieb, dismissed these imputations: “This is categorically false. We flatly denied all these supposed accusations, which are cowardly based on alleged anonymous sources and are completely disconnected from reality. This is what we expect from Wayfarer’s lawyers, who seem to prefer to firing first, without any evidence and without any evidence and those that harm.

On May 9, it was learned that Swift, 35, received a judicial summons in the framework of the current legal battle, which began when Lively, 37, accused in the courts his co -star and director of Break the circle of sexual harassment and reprisals. After that first lawsuit, Baldoni denied the accusations and presented a contrademand for 400 million dollars, accusing Lively, her husband and her defamation and extortion press agent.

After the citation to the pop star transcended, one of its spokesmen tried to keep it away from the conflict and the media drama, ensuring that it is not directly involved in the conflict.

“Taylor Swift never stepped on the set of this movie, did not participate in any casting or in creative decisions, did not compose the soundtrack, never saw an edition or took notes on the movie, did not even see Break the circle Until weeks after its premiere, and was traveling around the world for 2023 and 2024 leading the biggest tour in history, ”said his representative.

“Taylor’s connection with this movie was to allow the use of a song, ‘My Tears Ricochet’. Since his participation was to license a song for the movie, something also made another 19 artists, this citation is designed to use the name of Taylor Swift and attract the attention of the public, creating clickbait sensationalist instead of focusing on the facts of the case, ”said the spokesman.

At that same moment, Lively’s lawyer accused Baldoni’s legal team of trying to convert the case into “entertainment for tabloids.” “This is a very serious legal issue, not a circus. The defendants continue to intimidate, harass, embarrass and publicly attack the rights and reputation of women,” said the lawyer.

In an interview that air in CBS Morning In August 2024, Lively referred to Swift’s participation in Break the circle: “He was with me throughout the process. So I think, for better or worse, she, you know, lived everything with me,” he said.

Some of the alleged texts from Lively to Baldoni have already been published as proof by the lawyers of the actor and director, including one in which Lively refers to Swift and Reynolds, 48, such as his “dragons” who are willing to defend it.

Referring to those messages, Freedman said that Lively “was the one who put his high -profile friends in this situation without worrying about his own personal or public reaction” and used his ‘dragons’ to “manipulate Justin at all times.”