Taylor Swift’s father, Scott Swift, reportedly went to Justin Baldoni’s team with the bombshell claim that Blake Lively threatened to leak his daughter’s texts if the pop star did not publicly support her in her ongoing feud with her “It Ends With Us” co-star.
“Scott Swift did not want his daughter to be dragged into this any further and he voluntarily gave up this information as part of a deal that would include [Baldoni’s team] withdrawing their subpoena for Taylor,” an insider alleged to the Daily Mail Friday.
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman made the alleged threat public in a court filing last week, claiming Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr brought the demand to Taylor’s law firm, Venable.
The documents alleged Gottlieb “demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.” The docs claimed Lively also asked Swift to delete their messages.
Freedman doubled down further in a sworn affidavit, saying he spent an hour on the phone with a “person very closely linked” Taylor, who revealed the information. Scott’s identity was not disclosed at the time.
Gottlieb, meanwhile, told Page Six, “We unequivocally deny all of these so-called allegations, which are cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality.”
An insider backed Freedman Friday, though, telling Daily Mail that it seemed Lively’s team “tried to extort Taylor by threatening to release private information about her so that she would support a narrative that she was not a part of.”
Page Six reached out to reps for Baldoni, Lively, Taylor and her dad but did not immediately hear back.
Scott’s reported efforts to protect his daughter come after her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, also pledged his allegiance by unfollowing Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, on Instagram because of the ongoing drama.
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Despite all of the back-and-forth about the alleged threats, though, the judge in Lively, 37, and Baldoni’s case ruled that those allegations are inadmissible in court, calling them “improper” and “irrelevant.”
Baldoni, 41, then promptly dropped his subpoena against Taylor, 35, in what appeared to be a shocking legal move, given Freedman had argued for months that the Grammy winner played a role in Lively’s alleged attempts to assert her control over his client’s 2024 film.
In Baldoni’s $400 million extortion and defamation lawsuit against Lively — which he filed after she sued him for sexual harassment — it was alleged Taylor and Reynolds, 48, were present for a meeting about script re-writes in which the Wayfarer Studios co-founder felt pressured to follow the powerful stars’ notes.
“The message could not have been clearer. 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,” Freedman alleged in the complaint.
Despite those claims, an insider hinted to Page Six recently as to why Baldoni’s team ultimately chose to drop their probe into Taylor. “When information is voluntarily received, there is no need for subpoenas,” the source cryptically said. The information now appears to be the claims about the texts.
The “Lover” singer, for her part, has maintained she had nothing to do with the “It Ends With Us” drama.
Her rep previously told Page Six, “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see ‘It Ends With Us’ until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”
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