Justin Baldoni’s lawyers recently dropped a massive bombshell in their case against Blake Lively via Fox News.
On Wednesday, Baldoni’s team filed a document claiming the “It Ends With Us” actress threatened her close friend, Taylor Swift, if she didn’t publicly support Lively during Lively’s legal battle against her co-star, People reported.
Lively’s lawyer, Mike Gottlieb, shared a statement with Fox News Digital calling Baldoni’s claim “categorically false.”
“We unequivocally deny all of these so-called allegations, which are cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources and completely untethered from reality. This is what we have come to expect from the Wayfarer parties’ lawyers, who appear to love nothing more than shooting first, without any evidence, and with no care for the people they are harming in the process,” Gottlieb said.
“We will imminently file motions with the court to hold these attorneys accountable for their misconduct here.”
On Wednesday, Lively’s lawyers had filed a motion asking the court to strike the accusations from its docket as “baseless, unnecessary, improper and abusive,” they told Fox News Digital.
“It should be unnecessary to respond to anonymously sourced, baseless, allegations recklessly leveled without any supporting evidence. It is worth stating for the record, however, that each of the allegations in the Freedman Letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false. As a legal matter, the Freedman Letter is improper,” Lively’s legal team wrote.
As per the court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Lively’s motion to get Baldoni’s letter dismissed was granted.
Lively’s spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “It took the court less than 24 hours to see through Mr. Freedman’s irrelevant, improper and inflammatory accusations, strike them, remove them from the court and warn Mr. Freedman that further misconduct may be met with sanctions.”
Baldoni’s team wrote May 14 that it believes subpoenaing Swift is necessary for this case.
