Justin Baldoni Lawyers withdrew an assignment to appear which was issued to Taylor Swift in the middle of It ends with us Actor’s current legal battle with the co-star Blake Lively.
Swift, who is friends close to Lively, had been mentioned in the current legal case between the Co-Stars When text exchanges were revealed who understood his name in Baldoni at $ 400 million in defamation backup against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds in January.
Swift and Lively lawyers have previously filed requests to revoke the assignment, published earlier this month.
Lively spokesman previously said that Baldoni had tried to assign pop star as a witness in the “designed” case to use the “Swift name to draw the public interest”.
“We are happy that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties withdrew their harassment assignments to Taylor Swift and his law firm,” said the spokesperson said in a variety press release on May 22.
“We have supported the efforts of the Taylor team to cancel these inappropriate assignments addressed to their council and we will continue to defend any third party which is unjustly harassed or threatened in the process.”
“The Baldoni and Wayfarer team tried to put Taylor Swift, a woman who was an inspiration for tens of millions around the world, at the center of this case since the first day,” added the spokesman for Lively.
“Faced with having to justify themselves before the Federal Court, they fell back. At one point, they will lack distractions of the real allegations of sexual harassment and reprisals they face,” concluded the press release.
Since the start of the legal battle, the Baldoni legal team Made text messages from Lively and Reynolds audience A website entitled information on the trial, Created to help defend it.
On the website, Posted in early February, Baldoni, 41, also shared a modified complaint in his case against Lively, Reynolds, the public relations company in Lively and the New York Times, as well as a 168 -page document, entitled “Timeline of relevant”, linked to the case and the production of the film.
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The calendar includes emails and SMS that would have been sent before and during the film.
The text messages between animés and Baldoni, where she apparently alluded to Swift as “one of her dragons”, were Released in February. Swift and Lively have been very close friends since 2015 and the pop star is the godmother of the children of Lively.
According to varietySWIFT’s assignments and his legal team did not seem to be connected to these specific text messages.
Bryan Freedman, Baldoni lawyer, said he was looking for evidence that Lively’s lawyer had threatened to release text messages between Live Gossip Girl actor, according to a judicial file referred to in the point of sale. (Global News has not independently consulted the document.)
Freedman allegedly alleged that he had received a vocal messaging on February 14 from a “person very closely linked to Taylor Swift”. He refused to identify the person, but said that Lively’s lawyer demanded that the 35 -year -old singer published a Declaration of Lively support on social networks and warned that he could publish 10 years of text messages between the pair.
Freedman also said that Swift lawyers have accused Lively’s lawyers for extortion.
The unidentified person also said that Lively told Swift to delete SMS several months earlier, according to Freedman.
Freedman said the assignment was to obtain the allegedly exorbitant conversation in a letter to the lawyer in Lively.
Lively lawyers called Freedman’s allegations “unequivocal and manifestly false”.
Swift’s legal team previously declared that if Swift was assigned to appear, it would have no relevant information for the legal dispute and should not be involved in the case.
“Taylor Swift has never set foot on the set of this film, she was not involved in any casting or creative decision, she did not score the film, she has never seen editing or notes on the film, she did not even see It ends with us Up to a few weeks after his public release, and deployed worldwide in 2023 and 2024 at the top of the biggest tour in history “,” His spokesperson said on May 9.
The Swift team said that its only involvement in the film was the license of a song, which was My ricochet tears.
“Since his involvement was to allow a song for the film, which 19 other artists have also done, this document is softened is designed to use the name Taylor Swift to draw the public interest by creating tabloid clicks instead of focusing on the facts of the case,” said the spokesperson.
Alive The legal team has published a declaration After the news of Swift’s potential involvement in the case. He declared that Baldoni and his legal team “continue to transform a case of sexual harassment and reprisals in entertainment for tabloids”.
“This is a very serious legal affair, no Barnum & Bailey’s Circus,” said the spokesperson. “Defenders continue to publicly intimidate, intimidate, shame and attack the rights and reputation of women.”
The Baldoni and Lively legal trial is scheduled for March 2026 in New York.
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