Whether they want this or not, Blake Lively and the friendship of Taylor Swift and all bad blood between them this week have become the heart of Lively Legal battle in progress with It ends with us The co -star and director Justin Baldoni – but it didn’t last long.
On Wednesday, lawyers for condemned Lived condemned in a letter from the Baldoni’s main lawyer that the actress’s team threatened the superstar singer “Shake It Off” with a public band if she did not offer full public support to her former boyfriend as “scandalous” and “completely false”.
Thursday, just after Bryan Freedman reiterated his complaint regarding the support requested and the threats of “freeing private text messages of a personal nature” if the recently assigned Swift was not publicly behind Lively, the judge of the pursuit of several million dollars between the Iewu The stars have closed the whole ground.
“The letter is inappropriate and must be struck,” ordered judge Lewis J. Liman in response to a request from the Lively team only deposited for hours after Freedman’s letter. “It is not relevant for a question before this court and does not ask any measure from this court.”
Liman (who, as we mentioned previously, is the director of the director Doug Liman) continues by saying the letter of Freedman in his order: “He concerns a procedure of assignment in the district of Columbia on which this court has no authority. The only purpose of the letter is to “promote the public scandal” by advancing inflammatory accusations, information and its loyalty and its advisor. The lawyer tried to “extort” a well -known celebrity. The same goes for the subsequent submission of the Wayfarer Parties, that the court will strike Sua Sponte For the same reasons.
“The Council is informed that the future abusive use of the court file could be welcomed by sanctions.”
The fact that the judge of “subsequent submission” refers today is another letter from Freedman today which claims to name names – in fact, a name specifically.
This name is lawyer J. Douglas Baldridge.
Longtime lawyer from Swift, Baldridge is a partner of the DC office of Venables LLP. Since 2023, the graduate of the George Washington University Law School is also the Advocate General of the management of Swift.
With Venables fighting against the assignment “abuse of the discovery process”, as the company described it on its own file, which could drag and quickly in the animated Baldoni fight, Freedman offered more details on a potentially explosive call from February. Stressing the Super Bowl on February 9 to which Swift attended but that Lively was absent, the claimed conversation seems to have sought to eliminate the speculation that Swift distanted himself from Lively because of the latter’s dust with Baldoni, his Wayfarer studios, his leaders and the public relations Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel.
Quoting his response to vocal messaging of a “person very closely linked to Taylor Swift,” said Freedman in a corresponding affidavit: “During the telephone call on February 14, which lasted about an hour, the speaker told me that they had been informed that J. Douglas Baldridge, advisor to Taylor Swift and a partner of Blake LLP, Course from which Mr. Gottlieb asked, on behalf of Ms. Lively, that Taylor Swift makes a social media declaration in support of Ms. Lively gave her absence in the Super Bowl that year, and said that if Mrs. Swift did not do it, Ms. Lively had divided “ten years” from Ms. Baldridge. ended the call. “”
Neither Baldridge nor the representatives of Swift responded to the request for comments from the deadline on the documents, letters and the order of Liman today. However, in response to the deposits now struck by the Baldoni team on Thursday to have a motion for the sanctions postponed, and before Liman storis, Gottlieb had a new declaration strongly written for the deadline.
“Another day, another false deposit designed for click baits,” said Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s lawyer.
“We are repeating our unequivocal denial, that Mr. Freedman has now admitted to count completely on a source, no matter who he is, who has not even witnessed the conversations that Freedman describes, making this declaration to Triple Hearsay as unreliable as the information reported by children in a phone game,” adds Gottlieb. “These affirmations remain completely without attachments of reality – to be clear: the conversations described have not occurred, and we will hold Mr. Freedman responsible for his fault.”
Well known to be close to Vivant and the godmother of one of her children, Iewu The contributor to the SWIFT soundtrack has made several cameras in various prosecution and counter-demandes since Lively on December 20 filed his complaint for sexual harassment and reprisals with the California civil rights department.
In addition to being brought to the soundtrack of the film distributed Sony, Swift had a walk-on in the apartment of NYC de Lively at one point during the production of the rewriting of the script of his friend to a Recrosvillé Baldoni. In addition to the volumes of text message published by all sides, Swift is also mentioned as a “dragon” for animated in an exchange between Lively and Baldoni. However, the assignment published earlier this month launched it a level or two for the Scandal Adverse Swift after its Record World Tour of the ERA which ended in December 2024.
Now, while the Battle of SWIFT assignment continues in Courtsl, it seems that everything is good between the living singer and “Bad Blood”.
For Animé and Baldoni, with parties like the New York Times,, dead Pool Star Reynolds, various advertising and animated herself seeking to be dismissed from sprawling legal actions, the date of the trial of March 9, 2026 is still in books.
