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Because it seems, the Blake Full of life-Justin Baldoni authorized saga really can get crazier.

And it’s all due to Taylor Swift.

The actress and the singer have been shut mates for years, after all, however that friendship has been in an surprising highlight over the previous few months on account of Full of life ongoing lawsuit battle with It Ends With Us co-star Baldoni.

(Full of life has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of that film, whereas Baldoni has countered with documentation that claims Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity staff conspired to defame and extort him.)

Reduce to Might 14 and a brand new twist on this authorized battle.

5 days after Swift was subpoenaed to testify within the upcoming trial between Full of life and Baldoni — as a result of the latter alleges that the artist was current for a gathering on the former’s penthouse, throughout which Baldoni felt pressured to simply accept sure script adjustments — Baldoni’s lawyer mentioned that Full of life “demanded that Ms. Swift launch an announcement of assist for Ms. Full of life.”

On this new court docket submitting, Baldoni’s lawyer cites a “supply who is very more likely to have dependable info” and this info facilities on Full of life having requested Swift to delete textual content message associated, we presume, to Baldoni’s case towards the film star.

One other allegation included within the letter?

That Full of life’s lawyer contacted Swift’s lawyer “and demanded that Ms. Swift launch an announcement of assist for Ms. Full of life” — whereas additionally “intimating that if Ms. Swift refused to take action, non-public textual content messages of a private nature in Ms. Full of life’s possession can be launched.”

Sure, this can be a method of alleging that Blake Full of life has tried to blackmail Taylor Swift with the general public unveiling of seemingly embarrassing textual content messages if Swift does NOT come out to the world and assist her buddy.

In a scathing response, Full of life lawyer Michael Gottlieb slammed the accusation on Wednesday as “categorically false” and “cowardly sourced to supposed nameless sources, and utterly untethered from actuality.”

He continued:

“That is what we have now come to anticipate from the Wayfarer events’ legal professionals, who seem to like nothing greater than taking pictures first, with none proof, and with no take care of the individuals they’re harming within the course of.

“We are going to imminently file motions with the court docket to carry these attorneys accountable for his or her misconduct right here.”

Full of life’s camp went on to file a letter of its personal to Decide Liman, asking for Baldoni’s aforementioned accusation to be struck from the document.

“On behalf of our shopper, Blake Full of life, we respectfully transfer to strike the letter signed by Mr. Bryan Freedman and filed earlier at this time,” reads this official observe.

“That letter, which was not filed with any evidentiary assist of any form, a lot much less something below oath, falsely accuses Ms. Full of life, and her counsel, of participating in ‘witness tampering and proof spoliation’ primarily based on an undisclosed nameless supply.

“It needs to be pointless to reply to anonymously sourced, baseless, allegations recklessly leveled with none supporting proof. It’s value stating for the document, nevertheless, that every of the allegations within the Freedman Letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false.

“As a authorized matter, the Freedman Letter is improper. It doesn’t search any type of aid, is irrelevant to any movement at present pending earlier than the Court docket, and serves no legit objective. It isn’t helpful to the Court docket the least bit.”

From what we’ve heard, Full of life’s relationship with Swift has been impacted by these back-and-forth lawsuits and allegations.

Again in January, as par tof Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit, the actor included texts between Full of life and Baldoni through which Full of life seems to confer with Swift as “certainly one of her dragons.”

Therefore why his authorized staff is making an attempt to tug the wildly well-liked into this authorized mess.

After information broke of the subpoena, a consultant for Swift denied any involvement in Full of life and Baldoni’s movie It Ends with Us, from which the litigation between them has stemmed.

This assertion reads as follows:

“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or artistic selections, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see ‘It Ends With Us’ till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the most important tour in historical past.

“Provided that her involvement was licensing a music for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as an alternative of specializing in the details of the case.”