Blake Lively\u2019s legal team has sharply condemned Justin Baldoni and his lawyers for turning their serious harassment and defamation lawsuit into a media spectacle. They publicly criticized Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios co-founder Steve Sarowitz, and their attorneys for reportedly considering selling tickets to Lively\u2019s court deposition at Madison Square Garden\u2014an idea Lively\u2019s team called a \u201ccircus\u201d and an insult to the gravity of the case.<\/p>\n
The statement also accused Baldoni\u2019s camp of bullying, intimidation, and attacking women\u2019s rights, highlighting their recent attempts to challenge a powerful California victims\u2019 rights law as unconstitutional. Lively\u2019s team called out the hypocrisy of men who have portrayed themselves as female allies but \u201cshowed their true colors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adding fuel to the fire, Baldoni\u2019s legal team subpoenaed Taylor Swift\u2014who has no direct involvement in the film It Ends With Us<\/em> but whose song \u201cMy Tears Ricochet\u201d was licensed for the soundtrack. Lively\u2019s team defended Swift, praising her as a powerful voice for millions and condemning the subpoena as another tactic to sensationalize the case.<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s camp responded firmly, stating she was never on set, never involved in casting or creative decisions, and only connected to the project through the song licensing.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Baldoni\u2019s lawyer Bryan Freedman sarcastically suggested holding the deposition at MSG and streaming it, with proceeds going to support domestic abuse victims\u2014highlighting how the legal battle continues to mix serious allegations with public theatrics.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blake Lively\u2019s legal team has sharply condemned Justin Baldoni and his lawyers for turning their serious harassment and defamation lawsuit\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[458],"class_list":["post-73950","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\/73950","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=73950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}