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Blake Lively demanded Taylor Swift delete their texts as Justin Baldoni legal fallout escalates: lawyers

May 15, 2025
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Blake Lively demanded Taylor Swift delete their texts as Justin Baldoni legal fallout escalates: lawyers
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Talk about a blank space.

Blake Lively allegedly asked Taylor Swift to “delete their text messages” amid her legal war with Justin Baldoni, according to a bombshell new filing.

Lawyers representing the actor and his company, Wayfarer Studios, claimed to have learned of the supposed request from an anonymous source “who is highly likely to have reliable information.”

Blake Lively and Taylor Swift in NYC in January 2024
Blake Lively allegedly demanded Taylor Swift delete their text messages. GC Images
Justin Baldoni’s made the claim in a legal filing obtained by Page Six on Wednesday. GC Images

The court documents, obtained by Page Six on Wednesday, did not specify when Lively allegedly made the demand.

Baldoni’s attorneys also claimed the “Gossip Girl” alum’s lead counsel, Michael Gottlieb, had asked the pop superstar’s law firm, Venable, to “release a statement of support.”

According to the filing, the request intimated that “if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.”

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively in NYC in December 2023
The actor’s attorneys also alleged Lively had threatened to expose texts between herself and Swift. GC Images
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively at October 2023 NFL game
The information came from an anonymous source. Corey Sipkin for New York Post

Baldoni’s legal team claimed a rep for Swift, 35, “addressed these inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats in at least one written communication transmitted to Mr. Gottlieb.”

“It is those communications that the Wayfarer parties seek to obtain by way of subpoena,” they continued, referencing Venable being summoned last month and subsequently fighting it.

“The [communications] would evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in this litigation,” the director’s lawyers alleged.

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively via Instagram
The filing did not specify when Lively allegedly made these demands. Instagram/blakelively
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively in NYC in September 2023
The “Gossip Girl” alum’s lawyer called the allegations “categorically false.” MEGA

Gottlieb, however, called the claims “categorically false” and “completely untethered from reality” in a statement to Page Six “unequivocally” denying them.

Page Six has reached out to Swift’s rep for comment.

The Grammy winner has been close friends with Lively, 37, since 2015 — and first got dragged into the actress’ legal battle earlier this year.

Lively’s legal battle with Baldoni began when she sued him in December 2024. Christopher Peterson / SplashNews.com
Baldoni countersued his “It Ends With Us” co-star the following month. GC Images

The headline-making lawsuit spree kicked off in December 2024 when the actress accused her “It Ends With Us” co-star of sexual harassment, infliction of emotional distress and more.

Baldoni, 41, countersued Lively for defamation and extortion the following month, name-dropping Swift in his filing.

The “Jane the Virgin” alum claimed the “A Simple Favor” star had referred to the “Cruel Summer” singer and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, as “dragons” who “protect” her in creative battles amid discussions over her script re-writes.

He dragged Swift (not pictured here) into the legal war in his January court documents. ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
The “Jane the Virgin” alum claimed Lively had referred to Swift as a “dragon” protecting her in creative “battle[s].” GC Images

“The message could not have been clearer,” his lawyers claimed. “Baldoni was not just dealing with Lively. He was also facing Lively’s ‘dragons,’ two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him.”

When news broke last week of Swift being subpoenaed as a witness, her publicist insisted to Page Six that the songwriter “was not involved” in the film.

Swift’s rep added that the Eras performer instead had been “traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively in February 2024 Super Bowl
Swift initially felt “used” by Lively, according to a source. Getty Images
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively in NYC in December 2024
However, the longtime pals are “ready to move forward” despite the drama. GC Images

Swift has yet to address the ongoing scandal publicly, but we hear she and Lively are “ready to move forward” in their friendship despite the hitmaker initially feeling “used.”

As for Lively, she subtly spoke to her legal battle in a recent “Late Night with Seth Meyers” appearance.

“I have had a pretty intense year,” she said on May 1. “This year has been full of the highest highs and lowest lows of my life.”

The post Blake Lively demanded Taylor Swift delete their texts as Justin Baldoni legal fallout escalates: lawyers appeared first on Page Six.

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