Blake Energetic Accused of Making an attempt to BLACKMAIL Taylor Swift

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Because it seems, the Blake Energetic-Justin Baldoni authorized saga truly can get crazier.

And it’s all due to Taylor Swift.

The actress and the singer have been shut pals for years, in fact, however that friendship has been in an sudden highlight over the previous few months attributable to Energetic ongoing lawsuit battle with It Ends With Us co-star Baldoni.

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

Minimize to Might 14 and a brand new twist on this authorized struggle.

5 days after Swift was subpoenaed to testify within the upcoming trial between Energetic 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 just accept sure script adjustments — Baldoni’s lawyer stated that Energetic “demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively.”

On this new courtroom submitting, Baldoni’s legal professional cites a “source who is highly likely to have reliable information” and this data facilities on Energetic 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 Energetic’s lawyer contacted Swift’s lawyer “and demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively” — whereas additionally “intimating that if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.”

Sure, it is a approach of alleging that Blake Energetic 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 help her buddy.

In a scathing response, Energetic legal professional Michael Gottlieb slammed the accusation on Wednesday as “categorically false” and “cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality.”

He continued:

“That is what now we have come to count on from the Wayfarer events’ attorneys, who seem to like nothing greater than capturing first, with none proof, and with no take care of the folks they’re harming within the course of.

“We will imminently file motions with the court to hold these attorneys accountable for their misconduct here.”

Energetic’s camp went on to file a letter of its personal to Choose Liman, asking for Baldoni’s aforementioned accusation to be struck from the report.

“On behalf of our client, Blake Lively, we respectfully move to strike the letter signed by Mr. Bryan Freedman and filed earlier today,” reads this official word.

“That letter, which was not filed with any evidentiary help of any variety, a lot much less something beneath oath, falsely accuses Ms. Energetic, and her counsel, of participating in ‘witness tampering and evidence spoliation’ primarily based on an undisclosed nameless supply.

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

“As a legal matter, the Freedman Letter is improper. It does not seek any form of relief, is irrelevant to any motion currently pending before the Court, and serves no legitimate purpose. It is not useful to the Court in any respect.”

From what we’ve heard, Energetic’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 Energetic and Baldoni through which Energetic seems to check with Swift as “one of her dragons.”

Therefore why his authorized group is attempting to pull the wildly well-liked into this authorized mess.

After information broke of the subpoena, a consultant for Swift denied any involvement in Energetic 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 inventive 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 largest tour in historical past.

“Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”