The legal conflict between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni took an important turn this week, after Judge Lewis Liman He will dismiss the demand for defamation and extortion filed by Baldoni against the actress, her husband Ryan Reynolds and the New York Times.
Within this demand, Taylor Swift was mentioned, But now Lively’s legal team insists on completely decoupling the singer of the judicial process.
According to Lively’s lawyers, Swift’s mentions were merely sensationalist and did not fulfill any legal function in the case. “The only accusations in this action that were remotely relevant to Mrs. Swift were in the demand for Wayfarer Partiesnow dismissed, ”said Esra Hudson, lawyer of Lively.
“Mrs. Swift is not mentioned once in the amended lawsuit of Mrs. Lively.”
The legal dispute between Lively and Baldoni
The legal dispute between Lively and Baldoni revolves around an accusation of harassment and reprisals by the Wayfarer Studios team, after Lively denounced inappropriate sexual behavior in the filming set of ‘breaking the circle’.
Baldoni, meanwhile, previously alleged – based on an alleged anonymous source – that Lively would have urged Swift to delete conflict -related text messagesalthough that statement was subsequently eliminated from the judicial file for being considered irrelevant.
Baldoni’s team had initially cited Swift and his lawyer, but then the citations were withdrawn with the argument that “They had obtained exactly what they were looking for”.
However, Swift’s lawyer, Doug Baldridge, contradicted this statement, indicating that Documents were submitted or statements were scheduled by the singer.
From the Lively team they described the attempt to involve Swift as a public relations maneuver by Baldoni. “The continuous attempts to re -use the world’s largest star as a public relations strategy in this matter reflect a public collapse of epic proportions”Said an actress spokesman.
So far, the only part of the case that is still in force is the demand presented by Lively for harassment and reprisals, while all the actions initiated by Baldoni have been officially dismissed.
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