In a significant turn of events in the ongoing legal dispute involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the actress’s legal team has taken decisive action by filing a motion for a protective order. This motion aims to block Baldoni’s team from gaining access to the text messages exchanged between Lively and the renowned singer Taylor Swift. Lively’s representatives have labeled Baldoni’s attempts as a mere “tactic,” indicating her desire to minimize Swift’s role in the legal proceedings by seeking the court’s intervention on this matter.
Here, we delve into the latest developments surrounding Lively’s motion against Baldoni and the potential implications it has for their ongoing legal battle.
Blake Lively Takes Legal Action to Protect Private Conversations with Taylor Swift from Justin Baldoni’s Legal Team
On June 13, a pivotal Friday, the talented actress from A Simple Favor, Blake Lively, had her attorneys submit critical documents to New York judge Lewis J. Liman.
Within these documents, Lively formally requested that the court prevent her co-star from It Ends With Us, along with his legal representatives, from accessing the messages that have been exchanged between her and Taylor Swift. The legal papers filed by Lively’s attorneys claimed that these communications were “not central” to her original complaint against Justin Baldoni, asserting their irrelevance to the ongoing lawsuit.
Initially, Baldoni had issued a subpoena to Swift in May 2025, after he alleged that Lively had sought to leverage the influence of the 14-time Grammy winner to dominate the creative direction of It Ends With Us. However, he retracted the subpoena later that same month, indicating a shift in his approach.
In an explanation provided to Page Six, a spokesperson for Blake Lively articulated the rationale behind requesting the protective order, stating that it would be “duplicative, cumulative, and unnecessary” for Baldoni to pursue the messages between Lively and Swift any further.
The representative went on to emphasize, “The ongoing attempts to once again try and use the world’s biggest star as a public relations tactic in this matter reflects a public unraveling of epic proportions—and serves only to distract from the fact that Justin Baldoni’s lawsuits against Ms. Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist, and even the New York Times have all been entirely dismissed.”
Recently, a ruling by the New York judge led to the dismissal of Justin Baldoni’s hefty $400 million lawsuit against both Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. In light of this, Baldoni now has until June 23 to submit an amended version of his complaint, leaving many to speculate on the next steps in this high-profile legal saga.
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