The Taylor Swift team calls for a summons in a lively Balboni case 'Clickbait'

Taylor Swift is the latest big name that appears in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's controversial legal dispute.

On Friday, TMZ reported that Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman, who had charged Swift as a witness in the “IT End with Us” case, a 2024 romance film with Baldoni and Lively.

Although the film at the global box office does well, his success was overshadowed by the crack behind the scenes between its leading stars. In addition to acting, Baldoni headed the film and Lively was charged as a producer.

In response to the summons, a spokesman said that Swift had minimally involved in the film about licensing her song “My Tears Ricochet”.

“Taylor Swift never set the set of this film, she was not involved in casting or creative decisions, she did not evaluate the film, she never saw an editing or made notes to the film, she didn't even see “It ends with us” until weeks after its publication and traveled the biggest tour in history for the globe in 2023 and 2024, “the spokesman told Good Morning America.

The spokesman said that the decision to subla one of the world's biggest pop stars was to create “Boulevard Clickbait”.

“The connection that Taylor had to this film allowed the use of a song, 'My Tears Ricochet'. In view of the fact that their participation was to licens a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document forecard is designed in such a way that it uses the name of Taylor Swift to wake up the public interest by creating boulevard clickbait, Instead of concentrating on the facts of the case, “said the spokesman.

Representatives of Swift, Lively and Baldoni did not respond to a request for comments from Business Insider.

Lively and Baldoni have stood each other

So far, neither lively nor Baldoni has withdrawn in their legal dispute.

After the premiere of “IT ends with us” in August 2024, based on the book of the same name by Colleen Hoover, Lively filed a complaint to the California civil rights department in which Baldoni accused her of sexually harassing it and creating an “enemy work environment” that almost derailed the production of the film “.

The complaint also accused Baldoni and his team to damage LIVELY's public reputation. The complaint, which was formalized in a lawsuit in December last December, mentioned Swift Swift.

Baldoni sued the New York Times last December for defamation after the outlet published an article about Lively's allegations. A month later, Baldoni Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds accused the film and try to violate his reputation in a complaint of $ 400 million. Both lively and Reynolds asked for the discharge of Baldoni's lawsuit.