Justin Baldoni Withdraws Taylor Swift Subpoena In Legal Battle With Blake Lively

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Last Updated:May 23, 2025, 17:16 IST

Justin Baldoni's lawyer had subpoenaed Taylor Swift successful the Blake Lively case, and it made headlines.

The feud betwixt Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively began successful December 2024. (Photo Credits: Instagram)

In what came arsenic a spot of a surprise, It Ends With Us director-actor Justin Baldoni has withdrawn a subpoena against pop-sensation Taylor Swift successful the ongoing ineligible conflict with Blake Lively. Baldoni’s ineligible squad withdrew the telephone aft reportedly obtaining the accusation they needed and facing flak for dragging Swift into the conflict.

Earlier this year, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman indicated that Swift could beryllium deposed successful the feud betwixt Lively and Jane the Virgin Star. At the time, Swift’s spokesperson denied her engagement successful the movie based connected Colleen Hoover’s publication of the aforesaid name. They added that she lone licensed a azygous track—My Tears Ricochet—and said the summons was a publicity stunt.

Reportedly, Swift’s spokesperson told Good Morning America that the Blank Space vocalist ne'er acceptable ft connected the acceptable of the film, and was neither progressive successful casting, originative decisions nor editing. They added the subpoena was issued to “generate clickbait".

On Wednesday, A Simple Favour star’s representatives told Deadline they were ‘pleased’ that Swift and her ineligible squad did not person to woody with “harassing subpoenas". Lively’s lawyers reportedly said they backed Taylor’s squad to quash these ‘inappropriate subpoenas’ and added they would enactment immoderate 3rd enactment “unjustly harassed oregon threatened successful the process".

The feud betwixt Lively and Baldoni began successful December 2024 erstwhile she filed a ailment against her co-star with the California Civil Rights Department. She accused him of intersexual harassment and misconduct during the making of It Ends With Us.

Baldoni, who besides directed the film, refuted Lively’s claims and filed a countersuit alleging defamation and extortion by Lively and her husband, histrion Ryan Reynolds. His ailment referenced a connection successful which Lively allegedly referred to Swift and Reynolds arsenic her ‘dragons’ and accused her of utilizing their prima powerfulness to isolate him from accumulation and signifier the film’s narrative.

However, Lively’s squad responded sharply to Baldoni’s counterclaims and accused him of attempting to descent the blasted portion launching a smear campaign.

Both parties person filed lawsuits seeking dismissal of the other’s case. A tribunal day has been acceptable for March 9, 2026, astatine the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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