Taylor Swift’s name has been linked to the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni court case for over a year. The dispute began when Lively accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her on set, and he countersued for defamation. Although Swift is not a witness and was never deposed, her name is included on a list of individuals who might come up during the testimony. Her text messages with Lively could be used as evidence, showing that Lively tried to leverage her friendship with Swift against Baldoni.
The trial is set to begin next month, and Swift’s involvement will likely be a key point of discussion. Lively’s lawyers plan to object to the text messages as irrelevant, but Baldoni’s team will argue that they show Lively tried to use her friendship with Swift to gain control of the movie. The messages include Swift agreeing to talk up Lively’s version of a script rewrite and celebrating the use of her song ‘My Tears Ricochet’ in the movie’s trailer. Lively’s camp maintains that Swift had no meaningful involvement in the film and is only being invoked by Baldoni for clout.
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