Blake Full of life is requesting a “protecting order” in opposition to Justin Baldoni’s authorized workforce over their “persevering with calls for” for her communications with Taylor Swift, Us Weekly can affirm.
Full of life, 37, submitted a letter to guage Lewis J. Liman on Friday, June 13, and considered by Us, claiming that Baldoni’s Wayfarer Events has “pursued” her communications with Swift, 35, whereas allegedly refusing to supply “the paperwork they publicly claimed to have obtained as a part of a deal to withdraw their subpoenas” from Swift and her counsel.
In consequence, Full of life requested the decide to dam Baldoni’s authorized workforce from demanding her exchanges with Swift be made public, alleging that it’s been a “tactic” for the Wayfarer Events since August 2023 to make the singer and her fan base “central to their media technique” in opposition to Full of life.
Full of life argued within the letter that Swift’s communications are “not central” to her personal claims in opposition to Baldoni, 41, and “irrelevant” to the Wayfarer Events’ claims that had been dismissed earlier this month.
UPDATE 5/14/25 at 6:57 p.m. — Blake Full of life’s authorized workforce filed a brand new movement to request that Justin Baldoni’s claims about her buddy Taylor Swift be stricken from the report, Us Weekly can affirm. Within the letter obtained by Us, Full of life’s workforce famous that Baldoni’s letter was filed with out “evidentiary help of any variety.” “It ought to […]
The Gossip Lady alum alleged on Friday that Baldoni’s workforce is simply requesting Swift’s correspondence as a “media technique, not a litigation technique.” The actress “respectfully requests that she be relieved from producing paperwork aware of” associated requests from Baldoni’s workforce, in accordance with the submitting.
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni for remark.
A supply near Baldoni, in the meantime, claimed to Us on Friday that “Blake recognized Taylor as a witness with data of the alleged office setting, retaliation and damages herself … Along with her personal phrases on pink carpets and filmed interviews.”
A spokesperson for Full of life advised Us in an announcement on Friday, “Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer events are nonetheless demanding entry to Taylor Swift’s non-public communications — regardless of having already subpoenaed after which withdrawn that subpoena after they ‘received all they wanted.’ As mirrored in in the present day’s submitting, their intent to pull Taylor Swift into this was evident way back to August 2024, when the disaster PR agency led by Melissa Nathan included her of their ‘Situation Planning’ doc (Full of life Amended Grievance, Exhibit D) and flagged the ‘TS fanbase’ as one thing to take ‘extraordinarily significantly’ (Full of life Amended Grievance, ¶214(b)).”
The assertion continued: “The continuing makes an attempt to as soon as once more attempt to use the world’s largest star as a PR tactic on this matter displays a public unraveling of epic proportions—and serves solely to distract from the truth that Justin Baldoni’s lawsuits in opposition to Ms. Full of life, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist, and the New York Instances have been solely dismissed.”
Full of life’s letter is the most recent alternate in her and Baldoni’s authorized battle, which started in December 2024. On the time, Full of life filed a lawsuit in opposition to her It Ends With Us costar and director, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment, making a hostile work setting on the film and orchestrating an alleged smear marketing campaign in opposition to her.
Baldoni denied the allegations and filed a $400 million countersuit in opposition to Full of life, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and publicist Leslie Sloane.
He claimed that the trio took half in civil extortion, defamation and had been responsible of false gentle invasion of privateness and extra. Full of life, Reynolds, 48, and Sloane all denied the allegations. Full of life and Reynolds later filed for the lawsuit to be dismissed and Sloane requested to be eliminated.
Blake Full of life‘s ongoing authorized drama with Justin Baldoni took an sudden flip by pulling in Taylor Swift. After costarring in It Ends With Us collectively, Full of life sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her costar and director of of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear marketing campaign. In her submitting, Full of life claimed that Baldoni named Swift […]
In Could, information broke that Baldoni had subpoenaed Swift, who has been mates with Full of life for years, as their drama heated up and the preliminary lawsuit’s trial grew nearer. (Full of life and Baldoni are set to go to court docket in spring 2026.)
“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or artistic choices, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie,” Swift’s rep advised Us in an announcement on the time. “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.”
The rep defined that Swift’s “connection” to the film was merely “allowing using one tune, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’” The assertion alleged that Swift being subpoenaed was “designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the info of the case.”
Later that month, Us confirmed that Swift would now not be subpoenaed. A supply near the matter advised Us that the summons was dropped “as a result of data was voluntarily offered” by Swift to Baldoni’s workforce.
“We’re happy that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events have withdrawn their harassing subpoenas to Taylor Swift and her legislation agency,” Full of life mentioned in an announcement on Could 22. “We supported the efforts of Taylor’s workforce to quash these inappropriate subpoenas directed to her counsel and we are going to proceed to face up for any third get together who’s unjustly harassed or threatened within the course of.”
Blake Full of life confirmed she has Taylor Swift’s again after the subpoena in opposition to her buddy was dropped. “We’re happy that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events have withdrawn their harassing subpoenas to Taylor Swift and her legislation agency,” a spokesperson for Full of life, 37, mentioned in an announcement to Us Weekly on Tuesday, Could 22. “We […]
The assertion continued: “The Baldoni and Wayfarer workforce have tried to place Taylor Swift, a girl who has been an inspiration for tens of hundreds of thousands throughout the globe, on the heart of this case since day one. Exploiting Taylor Swift’s movie star was the unique plan in Melissa Nathan’s state of affairs planning doc, and it continues to this present day. Confronted with having to justify themselves in federal court docket, they folded. In some unspecified time in the future they are going to run out of distractions from the precise claims of sexual harassment and retaliation they’re dealing with.”
Full of life and Reynolds obtained one other authorized win earlier this month when a decide dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit on June 9. Baldoni’s lawsuit in opposition to The New York Instances, who was first to report Full of life’s claims in opposition to him, was additionally dismissed.
“Ms. Full of life and her workforce’s predictable declaration of victory is fake, so allow us to be clear in regards to the newest ruling,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman advised Us in an announcement on June 10. “Whereas the Court docket dismissed the defamation-related claims, the Court docket has invited us to amend 4 out of the seven claims in opposition to Ms. Full of life, which can showcase extra proof and refined allegations. This case is about false accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation and a nonexistent smear marketing campaign, which Ms. Full of life’s personal workforce conveniently describes as ‘untraceable’ as a result of they can not show what by no means occurred.”
Justin Baldoni’s authorized workforce is doubling down on their claims that Blake Full of life demanded Taylor Swift publicly help her after not attending this yr’s Tremendous Bowl. In accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by Folks on Thursday, Could 15, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman despatched a letter to Decide Lewis J. Liman on Wednesday, Could 14, claiming that […]
Freedman added: “Most significantly, Ms. Full of life’s personal claims are not any more true in the present day than they had been yesterday, and with the info on our facet, we march ahead with the identical confidence that we had when Ms. Full of life and her cohorts initiated this battle and stay up for her forthcoming deposition, which I can be taking. We’re grateful for the natural present of help from the general public and for the dedication of the Web sleuth group who proceed to cowl the case with discernment and integrity.”
Full of life, in the meantime, launched her personal assertion after the authorized win. “Final week, I stood proudly alongside 19 organizations united in defending girls’s rights to talk up for his or her security,” she wrote through her Instagram Story on June 9. “Like so many others, I’ve felt the ache of a retaliatory lawsuit, together with the manufactured disgrace that tries to interrupt us.”
“Whereas the go well with in opposition to me was defeated, so many don’t have the assets to struggle again,” she continued. “I’m extra resolved than ever to proceed to face for each girl’s proper to have a voice in defending themselves, together with their security, their integrity, their dignity and their story.”