Blake Lively Accused Of Threatening Taylor Swift In Shocking Legal Filing

According to a new letter filed in court Wednesday by Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman, Lively’s legal team allegedly tried to pressure Swift into publicly supporting Lively – or risk having personal messages exposed.

The letter claims Michael Gottlieb, one of Lively’s attorneys, contacted a lawyer for Swift and “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.”

Freedman alleges that a representative from Swift’s legal team pushed back on the “inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats” in written communications, which are now being subpoenaed. His team says the messages would “evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in this litigation.”

Gottlieb denied the claims in a statement, calling the filing “categorically false,” “cowardly,” and “completely untethered from reality.” He added, “This is what we have come to expect from the Wayfarer parties’ lawyers, who appear to love nothing more than shooting first, without any evidence, and with no care for the people they are harming in the process.”

Lively’s team has also filed a motion asking the court to strike the accusations from the record, describing them as “baseless, unnecessary, improper and abusive.” They stated, “It should be unnecessary to respond to anonymously sourced, baseless, allegations recklessly leveled without any supporting evidence. It is worth stating for the record, however, that each of the allegations in the Freedman Letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false. As a legal matter, the Freedman Letter is improper.”

Swift’s name first came up earlier this month when she was subpoenaed as part of Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit against Lively. While Swift had licensed her song “My Tears Ricochet” for the film’s trailer and one scene, her team clarified she had no further involvement. In a prior statement to Fox News Digital, her spokesperson said, “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.”

Freedman argues that the subpoena is necessary, citing a tip from a source who allegedly told his team that Lively had asked Swift to delete specific text messages. His May 14 filing states, “The Lively Defendants' insistence that the Subpoena seeks irrelevant information is wrong.”

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