The legal fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is heating up as time goes on. Recently, Blake\u2019s lawyers have asked to see Justin\u2019s financial records, hoping to get a clearer picture of his money situation before their court hearing in 2026. They officially sent a request to Justin\u2019s legal team asking them to cooperate.<\/p>\n
This news came right after Justin\u2019s lawyers subpoenaed Taylor Swift, asking her to testify in the case. But Blake\u2019s spokesperson quickly fired back, saying Taylor Swift wasn\u2019t involved in the movie It Ends With Us<\/em> beyond allowing one of her songs, My Tears Ricochet<\/em>, to be used. They pointed out that Taylor never visited the set, didn\u2019t help with casting or creative choices, didn\u2019t score the film, and didn\u2019t even see the movie until weeks after it was released. Plus, Taylor was busy touring worldwide during 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n Blake\u2019s team called the subpoena a publicity stunt, saying it was meant to grab headlines and distract from the real issues in the case. They explained that many other artists also licensed songs for the film, and Taylor\u2019s involvement was limited to just that.<\/p>\n Before this, Blake\u2019s lawyer, Mike Gottlieb, had already said it made no sense to drag Taylor Swift into the case. Meanwhile, Justin\u2019s lawyers even contacted Marvel, possibly joking about how the character Nicepool in Deadpool<\/em> might be mocking Justin.<\/p>\n The whole legal battle started back in December when Blake accused Justin, the director of It Ends With Us<\/em>, of sexual harassment. Justin responded with his own lawsuit, accusing Blake of defamation and extortion. Now, the courtroom drama continues to escalate as both sides dig deeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The legal fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is heating up as time goes on. Recently, Blake\u2019s lawyers have\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[458],"class_list":["post-73861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-blake-lively"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}