Blake Lively’s lawyer threatened to disclose private messages between the actress and Taylor Swift if the singer did not publish the support, he was alleged.
The complaint was made in a legal file as part of the Lively trial It ends with us Co-Star Justin Baldoni. Lively continued Baldoni for alleged sexual harassment in December before countering for defamation. A trial date has been set for next year in New York.
The last round of the Tat-Tat implies Bryan Freedman, the Baldoni lawyer, accusing the Lively team of having essentially tried to extort the support of Swift. Mike Gottlieb, Lively’s lawyer, rejected the complaint and Thursday Lewis J Liman, the case judge, granted his request to hit the letter from the letter from the file.
In the file, Freedman told Liman that he and his legal team had been “informed and believe, on the basis of information from a source which is very likely to have reliable information”, which asked Swift to delete their text conversations.
Gottlieb would have contacted a lawyer representing Swift and “asked” that she publishes a statement in support from Lively.
“If Mrs. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in possession of Ms. Lively would be published,” said Freedman’s file. He said his team “is still informed and believes that a representative of Ms. Swift approached these inappropriate and apparently exorbitant threats in at least a written communication transmitted to” Gottlieb.
Justin Baldoni also accuses the husband of Lively, Ryan Reynolds, of defamation
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The file comes a few days after Swift was assigned to appear by Baldoni lawyers. She challenges the request to produce documents or evidence and her legal team says she has nothing to do with the case.
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Gottlieb rejected Freedman’s allegations as “categorically false”. He said: “We unequivocally refuse all these so-called allegations, which are loose to supposed anonymous sources, and completely without attachment of reality.”
He added that he would deposit requests from the court for Baldoni lawyers to be held responsible for their “fault”.
Swift, 35, is a friend close to Lively, 37. She is the godmother of the actress’s three daughters.
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It ends with us Was a sleeper last summer, but its success was overshadowed by the extraordinary row it caused.
Legal deposits claim that Baldoni, 41, 41, who was also the director of the film, had different creative visions and that their relationship is broken down during production. Swift was fired in the row because it would have been at a meeting organized by Lively with Baldoni to discuss the changes of a scene on the roof.
Ryan Reynolds, the husband of Lively, would also have been there and Baldoni would have been in a hurry to accept the script revisions. The Baldoni trial said he had received a Lively text referring to Reynolds and Swift like his “Dragons”.
The Baldoni file said: “The message could not have been clearer. Baldoni was not only facing Lively. He also faced the Dragons ” of Lived – two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make it very difficult.”
