Judge says Blake Lively must turn over relevant Taylor Swift texts to Justin Baldoni

In the last chapter of the in progress legal battle of Blake Lively It ends with us The Co-Star / Director Justin Baldoni, a judge judged that the actress must submit her relevant SMS exchanges with Taylor Swift to the Baldoni legal team.

In the decision of June 18 obtained by PEOPLEThe American district judge Lewis J. Liman writes that “Lively herself has identified Swift as a person likely to have knowledge of complaints or discussions concerning the work environment on the set of It ends with us“Adding that the requests of the Baldoni legal team to see Lively’s messages with Swift on the production of the film” are reasonably adapted to discover information that would prove or refute the allegations of harassment and reprisals of Lively “.

Lively’s legal struggle with Baldoni began on December 20, 2024, when the actress filed a complaint against Baldoni with the California Department of Civil Rights accusing her of sexual harassment on the set of the film and then launched a sophisticated, coordinated and well -funded “reprisal plan” against her if the allegations were public. A day later, the New York Times Published an article entitled “We can bury anyone: inside a fruit machine in Hollywood” which detailed how the Baldoni public relations team would have strategic for the reputation of Lively. On December 31, 2024, Lively officially filed a complaint against Baldoni, his Wayfarer studios and his public relations team.

Since then, he said / she said that Saga had played before the courts – with prosecution and counterattacks deposited and abandoned – and before the Court of public opinion. In February of this year, Baldoni launched a website featuring the full text of its counter-combination against Lively. Later this month, Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds joked the trial during SnlSpecial of the 50th anniversary of the 50th anniversary, and … Well, you can read a complete round trip here.

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Swift, a longtime friend of Lively, was officially attracted by the situation in May this year, when the Baldoni team assigned the pop star as a witness in the case. The summons was removed later, but the actor’s legal team is still looking for relevant communications from Lively with Swift as part of the discovery process. In his decision, judge Lewis recognized the argument of the Liveve legal team outside the courtyard. “But,” he continued, “this concern does not justify denying the parts of the relevant road. “Judge Liman also denied Baldoni and Wayfarer de Cross-Motion To Form, which asked Lively to produce production-related documents.

Weekly entertainment contacted representatives for Swift and Baldoni to comment.

In a declaration to EW, a spokesperson for Lively said: “The court has completely rejected the request of the Wayfarer parties to force Ms. Lively’s documents, which produced many more documents in this case than the Wayfarer parties combined. In addition, the court of the court was based exactly on the Wayfarer parties”. There is.”

The declaration continues: “As for the rest, Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties asked for access to private communications from Taylor Swift – although she has already assigned to appear and then withdrew this assignment to the audience. Part D), described it as an intimate, and called for a strategy to influence the` `fan base ” … Incessant Baldoni to exploit the popularity of Ms. Swift, who, from the first day, was only the distraction of the series of accusations of sexual harassment and reprisals, he and the parties who are confronted. “