Taylor Swift's team calls subpoena in Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case 'tabloid clickbait'

Taylor Swift is the latest large sanction to look successful Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's contentious ineligible scuffle.

TMZ reported connected Friday that Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, subpoenaed Swift arsenic a witnesser successful the lawsuit related to "It Ends With Us," a 2024 romance movie starring Baldoni and Lively.

Although the movie did good astatine the global container office, its occurrence has been overshadowed by the behind-the-scenes rift betwixt its starring stars. In summation to acting, Baldoni directed the film, and Lively was billed arsenic a producer.

In effect to the subpoena, a spokesperson said Swift had minimal engagement successful the movie beyond licensing her opus "My Tears Ricochet."

"Taylor Swift ne'er acceptable ft connected the acceptable of this movie, she was not progressive successful immoderate casting oregon originative decisions, she did not people the film, she ne'er saw an edit oregon made immoderate notes connected the film, she did not adjacent see 'It Ends With Us' until weeks aft its nationalist release, and was traveling astir the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest circuit successful history," the spokesperson told Good Morning America.

The spokesperson said the determination to subpoena 1 of the world's biggest popular stars was made to make "tabloid clickbait."

"The transportation Taylor had to this movie was permitting the usage of 1 song, 'My Tears Ricochet.' Given that her engagement was licensing a opus for the film, which 19 different artists besides did, this papers subpoena is designed to usage Taylor Swift's sanction to gully nationalist involvement by creating tabloid clickbait alternatively of focusing connected the facts of the case," the spokesperson said.

Representatives for Swift, Lively, and Baldoni did not respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider.

Lively and Baldoni person countersued each other

So far, neither Lively nor Baldoni has backed down successful their ineligible battle.

Following the August 2024 premiere of "It Ends With Us," based connected Colleen Hoover's eponymous book, Lively filed a ailment with the California Civil Rights Department accusing Baldoni of sexually harassing her and creating a "hostile enactment situation that had astir derailed accumulation of the Film."

The ailment besides accused Baldoni and his squad of attempting to harm Lively's nationalist reputation. The complaint, formalized into a suit past December, mentioned Swift by name.

Baldoni sued The New York Times for libel past December aft the outlet published an nonfiction astir Lively's accusations. One period later, Baldoni accused Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of taking implicit the movie and attempting to wounded his estimation successful a $400 cardinal lawsuit. Both Lively and Reynolds person asked for Baldoni's suit to beryllium dismissed.