Justin Baldoni has dropped his subpoena of Taylor Swift amidst his ongoing authorized battle with the pop star’s pal, Blake Full of life, as first reported by Deadline.
Based on sources for each Deadline and Web page Six, Baldoni might need withdrawn the subpoena after Swift voluntarily offered the requested paperwork. “When data is voluntarily obtained, there isn’t a want for subpoenas,” a supply reportedly instructed Web page Six.
A spokesperson for Full of life nonetheless celebrated the information, saying in an announcement, “We’re happy that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events have withdrawn their harassing subpoenas to Taylor Swift and her legislation agency. We supported the efforts of Taylor’s crew to quash these inappropriate subpoenas directed to her counsel and we’ll proceed to face up for any third occasion who’s unjustly harassed or threatened within the course of.”
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The subpoena was a part of Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit alleging defamation and extortion in opposition to Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their publicity crew. Within the countersuit, Baldoni claimed that Swift and Reynolds pressured him into accepting Full of life’s rewrite of their movie, It Ends with Us.
On the time, Swift’s spokesperson launched an announcement saying the singer “by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive selections, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie.”
The spokesperson continued, “The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing using one music, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ On condition that her involvement was licensing a music for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s identify to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the details of the case.”
Full of life and Baldoni’s authorized entanglement stems from their time working collectively on the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us. It started in December 2024 after Full of life sued Baldoni for sexual harassment. Baldoni responded by submitting the aforementioned defamation go well with in opposition to Full of life and Reynolds.