They assure that Taylor Swift gave “key information”, amid the conflict between Baldoni and Lively
Justin Baldoni and his legal team withdrew the order to cite Taylor Swift To declare, in the midst of the legal battle that the actor and director maintains against Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
As reported on Thursday the American Site Deadline, the citation was suspended after the director of Break the circle and their lawyers obtained the information they were looking for. Page Six, meanwhile, consulted a nearby source that said: “When the information is voluntarily received, there is no need for citations”
Lively representative, in turn, said: “We are pleased that Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Parties (the producer of Break the circle) have retired their citations by harassment of Taylor Swift and his law firm. We support the efforts of the Taylor team to cancel these inappropriate citations aimed at your lawyer and we will continue to defend any third party who is unfairly harassed or threatened in the process. ”
The lawyer continued to criticize Baldoni, his company, Wayfarer Studios, and his lawyers to put Swift, “a woman who has been an inspiration for dozens of millions of people around the world,” in the center of the scandal.
In mid -March, the judicial and media brawl between Lively and Baldoni added a new chapter: The lawyers of the actor and director They accused Ryan Reynolds’s wife of extorting her friend, 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 claimed that they were also informed that Swift’s legal representative responded to Lively’s lawyer and “addressed these inappropriate and apparently extortion threats“Adds:” It is those communications that 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 accusations: “This is categorically false. We flatly denied All these supposed accusations, which are based cowardly on alleged anonymous sources and are completely disconnected from reality. This is what we expect from Wayfarer’s lawyers, who seem to prefer to shoot first, without any proof and regardless of the people they harm. We will present motions to the court so that these lawyers pay accounts for their misconduct. ”
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.
In March 2026, the oral trial hearings will begin Lively and Justin Baldonia crossing that began when the actress filed a lawsuit against her co -star (and director of the film) for sexual harassment and for having taken a discredit campaign against her. For his part, Baldoni responded with another lawsuit against Lively (and Reynolds) in which he refers to ill -treatment, manipulations and humiliations.
