Judge roams Justin Baldoni letter in which Blake Lively Taylor Swift put pressure on

A judge has given Blake Lively's request to strike a letter and an affidavit from Justin Baldoni's legal team regarding Taylor Swift.

Judge Lewis J. Liman issued the application on Thursday, May 15, Bryan Freedman's letter and affidavit affidavit “inappropriate” and “irrelevant for a problem before this dish”. He added: “The lawyer is pointed out that the future abuse of the court application could be met with sanctions.”

Freedman claimed in his letter to Richter Liman on Wednesday, May 14th, that a “source of reliable information has”, said to him that LIVELY's lawyers supposedly represented “blackmail threats” for the law firm, the Swift, 35.

According to the letter, the claims contained an assertion that LIVELY's lawyers have made a quick “approval of a declaration of support” for LIVELY (37) and “haunted that if Ms. Swift refused, private text messages from personal nature in Ms. Lively.”

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In the letter, which was submitted in Baldoni's request for a subjugation, Freedman also claimed to have received a tip from the anonymous source in which Lively Swift asked to delete text messages.

Freedman claimed that they were also announced that Swift's lawyer answered Lively's lawyer and “had addressed these inappropriately and apparently blackmail threats,” he added, “it is the communication that the Wayfarer parties” as a potential evidence of “an attempt to perceive a perception in this litigation”.

In an explanation towards people, the lawyer of LIVELY, Mike Gottlieb, answered: “This is categorically wrong. We clearly deny all of these so -called allegations that cowardly obtained from supposed anonymous sources and are completely removed from reality.”

Gottlieb added: “This is what we expected from the Wayfarer parties' lawyers who seem to be nothing more than first shoot without evidence and without care for the people who harm them in this process.”

“We will submit applications to the court directly to blame these lawyers for their misconduct,” he concluded.

In a subsequent letter to the judge, the LIVELY legal team demanded that Freedman's letter were advertised, and wrote: “The obvious intention of the Freedman letter is to wash scandalous and defaming allegations about Ms. Lively and against the opposing lawyer of the press.”

On Thursday, however, Freedman doubled his claim and this time submitted a signed affidavit under the punishment of mone to give his unnamed source and further details about the allegations more light.

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In the affidavit, Freedman claimed to have received a one -hour call on Valentine's Day, February 14, with a “person who was very closely connected to Taylor Swift”, whom he was still unnamed.

According to the affidavit, the source said that Swift's lawyer was called Lively's lawyer, who supposedly called “in the name of Ms. Lively that Taylor Swift gives a social media statement that gives a statement from Ms. Lively this year to support Ms. Lively from Super Bowl.

The person also claimed that Lively Swift asked “four or five months” before the declaration after the affidavit in the past text messages.

Freedman added that he was brought into contact with the unnamed source about a “mutual friend who told me that the person wanted to speak”, and since then she has “several phone calls”.

On Friday, May 9th, it was light that Swift had issued a summons in the current legal dispute, which began when Lively sued her It ends with us Costar and director claimed sexual harassment and retaliation. The 41 -year -old Baldoni denied the claims and submitted his own 400 million dollar counter suit, accused lively and others of defamation and blackmail.

In a fiery statement according to the prime messages, Swift's spokesman distanced the pop star of It ends with us And the surrounding legal drama, which partly said that Swift “never goes to 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 about the film”.

After the setback by Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds on a summon, which was issued at Venable, the lawyers of Baldoni's lawyers answered in their letter to the judge on Wednesday and argued why they believe that the summons are necessary in this case.

“The lively defendants insist that the summons are looking for irrelevant information is wrong,” Freedman wrote in the letter.

The case between lively and Baldoni entitled ” Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al.is currently to go to court in March 2026.