{"id":6802,"date":"2025-05-10T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:04:13","slug":"taylor-swift-named-in-subpoena-linked-to-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6802","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift named in subpoena linked to Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Taylor Swift has been subpoenaed in the ongoing legal fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, stemming from their collaboration on the 2024 film It Ends With Us.<\/p>\n<p>Swift, a longtime friend of Lively\u2019s, entered the spotlight after her name appeared in text messages cited in Baldoni\u2019s $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>One message reportedly from Baldoni to Lively read: \u201cI really love what you did. It really does help a lot. Makes it so much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor),\u201d with a wink emoji.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cYou really are a talent across the board. Really excited and grateful to do this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a spokesperson for Swift told CNN:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that Swift\u2019s only connection was the licensing of her song \u201cMy Tears Ricochet\u201d for the film:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lively had initially accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and retaliation in a complaint filed with California\u2019s Civil Rights Department last December, followed by a lawsuit a week later.<\/p>\n<p>She also alleges Baldoni and his team ran a targeted media smear campaign against her during the film&#8217;s promotion.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has been subpoenaed in the ongoing legal fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, stemming from their collaboration on the 2024 film It Ends With Us. Swift, a longtime friend of Lively\u2019s, entered the spotlight after her name appeared in text messages cited in Baldoni\u2019s $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}