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Blake Tried To Strongarm Her For Public Assist …
Baldoni Lawyer Claims
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3:35 PM PT — Blake’s legal professional Michael Gottlieb simply filed a movement to strike Justin Baldoni‘s letter from the court docket docket as “baseless, pointless, improper and abusive.”
Blake Lively‘s attorneys allegedly tried to power Taylor Swift into publicly supporting Vigorous in her beef with Justin Baldoni by threatening to launch Taylor’s personal textual content messages if she did not play ball … a minimum of in line with Baldoni’s lawyer.
In new authorized docs obtained by TMZ, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman claims the subpoena he despatched to legal professionals for Taylor was meant to get info associated to doable witness tampering and proof spoliation.
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Freedman claims he has it from a superb supply that Blake allegedly requested that Taylor delete their textual content messages.
What’s extra, Freedman claims one in all Blake’s attorneys, Michael Gottlieb, contacted an legal professional who represents Taylor and demanded that Taylor launch an announcement of assist for Blake, intimating that if Taylor refused to take action, personal textual content messages of a private nature in Blake’s possession can be launched.
Justin’s lawyer additionally alleges one in all Taylor’s reps addressed the “inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats” in a minimum of one written communication despatched to Blake’s legal professional, Gottlieb.
Freedman says it is these alleged communications that he is making an attempt to get his fingers on through the subpoena … and he says it could be proof of “an try to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness on this litigation.”
For her half, Taylor’s camp has blasted the subpoena … claiming she was minimally concerned within the drama on the set of “It Ends With Us” … which sparked the nasty authorized warfare between Blake and Justin.
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As we first informed you … Blake and Taylor’s friendship was fractured after a textual content surfaced the place Blake informed Justin she was Khaleesi from “Recreation of Thrones” and husband Ryan Reynolds and Taylor have been her “dragons.”
Taylor was royally pissed over the textual content message, and sources near her pushed again on the notion she was ever one in all Blake’s “dragons.”
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Blake is making an attempt to quash the Swift subpoena … however Freedman says it’s extremely related to the case.
Michael Gottlieb tells TMZ … “That is categorically false. We unequivocally deny all of those so-called allegations, that are cowardly sourced to supposed nameless sources, and fully untethered from actuality. That is what we’ve come to count on from the Wayfarer events’ legal professionals, who seem to like nothing greater than capturing first, with none proof, and with no take care of the individuals they’re harming within the course of. We’ll imminently file motions with the court docket to carry these attorneys accountable for his or her misconduct right here.”
