A Blake Lively lawyer fights against a complaint from Justin Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, whom a member of the Lively legal team tried to extort Taylor Swift to publish a declaration of support for the star of the “Simple Favor”.
According to Freedman’s letter, filed with the court and judge Lewis J. Liman on Wednesday: “Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr, lawyer for animated defendants, contacted a venable lawyer who represents Ms. Swift and asked that Ms. Swift publishes a messaging declaration for Ms. Lively, indicating that, if Mrs. Swift has released, Make private messages of personal nature in the nature of MS.
Freedman’s accusation is impossible to check independently because it is only based on the information of an “nameless source which is very likely to have reliable information”. No other source in support of the complaint was provided in the Freedman file.
In a declaration shared with VarietyGottlieb criticized the accusation as “categorically false” and “loose from supposed anonymous sources, and completely without attachment of reality”.
“This is what we expect from the lawyers of the Wayfarer parts, which seem to like nothing to shoot first, without any evidence, and without taking care of the people they harm in the process,” said Gottlieb. “We will imminently deposit requests from the court to keep these lawyers responsible for their fault here.”
The Lively camp then submitted a scathing letter to judge Liman, asking Freedman’s accusation to be struck by the file.
“On behalf of our client, Blake Lively, we are respectfully moving to hit the letter signed by Mr. Bryan Freedman and tabled earlier during the day,” read the letter from the lawyer Esra Hudson. “This letter, which has not been deposited with support for proofs of all kinds, even less in the oath, wrongly accuses Ms. Lively, and his lawyer, of engaging in the flexion of witnesses and the spoliation of evidence ” on the basis of an anonymous non -disclosed source.”
The letter continued: “It should not be necessary to respond to allegations anonymously, baseless, recklessly without any evidence for purposes.
This back and forth stems from a motion from the SWIFT camp to Veteable LLP to cancel an assignment to produce documents, which was meant on May 9. The assignment was in relation to the defamation trial of Baldoni, which was deposited in January. The combination contained texts between animés and Baldoni in which Lively seems to qualify as Swift as “one of his dragons”. After the news broke out of the assignment, a Swift representative denied any involvement in the film by Lively and Baldoni “IT ends with us”, from which the dispute between them is walking.
The statement said: “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this film, she was not involved in any casting or creation decision, she did not score the film, she has never seen a editing or took no note on the film, she did not even see` `he ends with us ” before the biggest public tour, and traveled through the world in 2023 and 2024 history. “
