The legal team of the actor and producer gave up the citation to the artist, in the midst of a complex judicial dispute scheduled to go to trial in 2026.
The legal team of Justin Baldoni He decided to withdraw the judicial citation that had been issued to the singer Taylor Swift in the context of the legal dispute facing actress Blake Lively.
This was confirmed on Thursday a spokesman for Lively, who described the measure as a positive step and reiterated his support for Swift.
“We are pleased that they have withdrawn these harassment summons aimed at Taylor Swift and their law firm,” he said, through a statement, the representative of Lively AA People.
In addition, he stressed that they will continue “defending any third party who is harassed or unfairly threatened in this process.”
The controversy arose at the beginning of May, when Baldoni quoted swift in the case faced with Livelywho accuses him of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior during the filming of the film It ends with us.
According to Lively’s team, the goal would have been “exploit Taylor Swift’s fame to divert attention from substantive complaints. ”
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A Swift spokesman at that time described the citation as a media strategy: “This citation was designed to attract attention with sensationalist holders instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
He added that Swift “never stepped on the sethe did not participate in creative decisions or saw the assembly of the film until weeks after its premiere. ”
The legal document also included a controversial letter sent by Baldoni’s lawyers to the judge, in which he secured, citing an anonymous source, which Lively would have threatened to disseminate private messages between her and Swift if the latter did not pay it publicly.
Lively’s defense sharply denied the accusation, and Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered to eliminate that letter from the judicial file for considering it “inadmissible and irrelevant.”
The trial, which will cover both Lively’s demand against Baldoni and the defamation and extortion counter -demonstration presented by him, is set for March 2026.
In his judicial action, Baldoni also involves the husband of Lively, Ryan Reynoldsand your public relations team.
The actor states that both Reynolds and Swift pressed him to accept a new script written by Lively, and mentions an alleged private meeting in which she would have conditioned him.
So far, neither Swift nor Baldoni have delivered public statements after the withdrawal of the citation.
