
Blake Lively's Lawyer Accused Of Threatening To Leak Taylor Swift Texts
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Justin Baldoni's attorney accused Lively's lawyer of demanding that Swift "release a statement of support for Ms. Lively."
Director Justin Baldoni’s legal team is trying to suggest the possibility of bad blood between actor Blake Lively and pop star Taylor Swift.
Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman claimed in a letter filed in court on Wednesday that Lively’s lawyer had reached out to Venable, the law firm that represents Swift, to demand that the singer “release a statement of support for Ms. Lively” as the “It Ends With Us” stars’ never-ending legal feud drags on.
Citing an “undisclosed source,” Freedman claimed that Lively’s attorney Michael Gottlieb had implied to Venable that Swift’s “private text messages of a personal nature” would be leaked to the public if the singer didn’t comply, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Gottlieb, however, told People that any suggestion Lively was attempting to extort Swift is “categorically false.”
“We unequivocally deny all of these so-called allegations, which are cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality,” Gottlieb said.