Justin Baldoni's lawyer warned after he had done Taylor Swift, Blake Lively Claim

A judge has put down a letter from Justin Baldoni's lawyer in which Blake LiveLy threatens her friend Taylor Swift with the demands to publicly support the Megastar singer in her increasingly bitter support in her increasingly bitter support It ends with us Legal dispute.

District judge Lewis Liman's command on Thursday states that the only purpose of the letter from Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman was to promote “public scandal” by promoting inflammatory accusations, information and belief against Lively and her lawyer.

Liman also warned that another “abuse of the court share” could have met with sanctions.

Newsweek has turned to a comment on representatives of Baldoni and Swift.

Why is it important

The bitter dispute between co-stars lively and Baldoni began while filming It ends with us.

LIVELY is suing Baldoni – who also led the adjustment of Colleen Hoover – in New York and accused him of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, defamation and other claims. Baldoni rises lively and claims defamation, breach of contract and other claims. His 400 million dollar -defamation is also aimed at the husband Ryan Reynolds by Lively and Publicist Leslie Sloane.

The very public struggle between the actors has uncovered a number of texts, e -mails and heated discussions that give an insight into the life behind the scenes in Hollywood, and their attempts to bury negative audiences with teams from PR specialists.

What to know?

On May 9th, Swift was charged as a witness in the Legal Baldoni battle. A spokesman for Swift, who is a godmother Lively and Reynolds' three children, denied that the pop star had a connection to a connection It ends with usbeyond the licensing of her song “My Tears Ricochet”.

Lively and Reynolds tried to lift the summons when Freedman wrote a letter to the judge on May 14, in which he claimed the bomb and to say about lively and Swift when he argued that the summons were relevant.

“The lively defendants insist that the summons are looking for irrelevant information is wrong,” Freedman wrote. “The summon aims to obtain a discovery in relation to witnesses manipulating and evidence.”

According to the letter, received by through NewsweekThe lawyer of Live, Mike Gottlieb, contacted the right team from Swift to demand that Ms. Swift publish a support for Ms. Lively, and when Ms. Swift refused to do this, private text messages from personal nature would be published in Ms. Lively. “

Freedman added a legal representative of Swift to at least one written communication to the “blackmail threats”, which was the correspondence requested in the summons.

Freedman also claimed to have received a tip from an anonymous “source” that very likely has reliable information “, which Lively Swift had asked to delete certain text messages.

Gottlieb has denounced the statement of the right -wing man of Baldoni as “categorically wrong”.

On Wednesday, LIVELY's lawyers submitted an application to the strike of the allegations raised in Freedman's letter and said that the only purpose of submitting was to wash “scandalous and defaming allegations” via Lively.

“It should be unnecessary to react to anonymous, unfounded allegations without supporting evidence. However, it is worth that the recording is determined that each of the allegations in the Freedman letter is clearly and demonstrably wrong.

On Thursday, Liman agreed to coordinate the letter to prevent a “abusive” use of Docket judgment and said communication was “inappropriate”.

“It transparently invites you to a press opening by suggesting that Lively and her lawyer tried to” blackmail “a well -known celebrity. The retention of the letter on the docket would not be useful for the court and would allow the court's court file to serve as a” reservoir for defamed statements for press consumption “.”

Swift was also mentioned in Baldoni's advance suit regarding a meeting in the New York House in Lively and Reynolds, where LIVELY, REYNOLDS and Swift were all present.

The lawsuit says that LiveLy also described Reynolds and Swift as their protection “dragons”.

What people say

Livively's spokesman told Newsweek on Thursday, “The Court took less than 24 hours to enforce Mr. Freedman's irrelevant, improper and inflammatory accusations, to make them, remove them from the court and to warn Mr. Freedman that further misconduct can be met with sanctions.”

In a legal registration on Monday, Swift's Law said representation, said Venable Law Firm. “Venable had nothing to do with the film or one of the claims or defense in the underlying lawsuit. There is no reason for this summons, except to distract the facts of the case and to impose an impartial burden and costs.”

Swift's publicist told Page six In an explanation, “Taylor Swift never set the set of this film on foot, she was not involved in casting or creative decisions, she did not achieve the film, she never saw an editing or made notes to the film. She did not even see 'IT with us' until weeks after his publication and was the biggest tour in history in history about the globe in 2023 and 2024.”

Gottlieb said at the beginning of this week “We clearly deny all of these so-called allegations that cowardly related to supposed anonymous sources and are completely not removed from reality. This is what we expect from the Wayfarer parties' lawyers who initially seem to love nothing more than shooting, without evidence and without care that they seem to harm them that harm them.” “

Baldoni's layers in the letter on May 14th to the judge said that a quick representative “These inappropriately and apparently extortionately threats in at least one written notification that was translated to Mr. Gottlieb. It is these messages that the Wayfarer parties would like to receive through summons because they would prove an attempt to intimidate and force a truthful witness in this procedure.”

What happens next

The legal dispute between Baldoni and LIVELY continues, and Liman is expected to decide shortly about the summons of Baldoni's summons. The attempt is set for March 2026.