Blake Lively Subpoenas Cell Carriers In Bid To 'Expose' Justin Baldoni
Blake Lively has made new moves to get “receipts” that will help her prove Justin Baldoni allegedly launched a smear campaign against her.
Blake Lively has made new moves to get "receipts" that will help her prove Justin Baldoni allegedly launched a smear campaign against her.
It follows the actress filing allegations of sexual harassment against her "It Ends With Us" co-star/director last December.
Justin Baldoni has furiously denied the accusations and has also counter-sued Blake Lively for defamation.
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The Actress Issued Subpoenas To Obtain Relevant 'Receipts'Since accusing Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and fostering a toxic work environment, Blake Lively's legal battle with the director has continued to intensify, with both sides determined to come out on top.
One of the claims Lively made was that Baldoni orchestrated a smear campaign against her to ruin her reputation, to which Baldoni's lawyers hit back with a reply that the actress's suit was only done to fix her "negative reputation."
Now, according to Deadline, Lively is seeking to prove the allegation and counter Baldoni's recent publication of his own side of the story by securing "receipts" from cell carriers Cloudflare and AOL, as well as from Jed Wallace, a crisis consultant who was linked with launching a "digital army" against the actress on Baldoni's behest.
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Lively's lawyers, attorneys Esra Hudson and Michael Gottlieb, confirmed she sent subpoenas to all three, which will compel them to release necessary phone records relevant to the case.
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Blake Lively Wants To Expose Justin Baldoni's Alleged Smear Campaign TacticsLively's lawyers also claimed that by initiating this discovery process, the actress would be able to "expose the people, tactics, and methods that have worked to 'destroy' and 'bury' her reputation and family over the past year."
They further pointed out that these "receipts" are "nowhere to be found on Mr. Freedman's website," a reference to Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, and a website where the actor shared his own side of the feud.
In response, Baldoni's lawyer slammed Lively's subpoenas as a "massive fishing expedition" that proves the actress and her representative are "desperately seeking any factual basis for their provably false claims."
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"They are asking for every single call, text, data log, and even real-time location information for the past 2.5 years, regardless of the sender, recipient, or subject matter," Freedman further revealed while also noting Lively will find nothing to prove her claims.
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Blake Lively Included Shocking Text Messages In Her Suit Against The ActorIn the meantime, Lively already has some shocking text messages between Baldoni's public relations team members, which she claims prove that the actor orchestrated a "multi-tiered plan" to destroy her reputation.
According to the Daily Mail, the messages she included in her suit against Baldoni were sent after she voiced concerns about conditions on the set of their film "It Ends With Us."
The actress alleged that the PR team also discussed a strategy document for Baldoni that identified "several potential scenarios" the film director should be prepared for if Lively and her team "make her grievances public."
While it was initially unclear how the messages were obtained by Lively, a member of her team later revealed that they were secured from a phone owned by Baldoni's former publicist, Jennifer Abel, who reportedly parted ways with the actor due to "bullying."
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Justin Baldoni Amended His $400 Million Suit Against Blake LivelyAll of Lively's accusations have been furiously denied by Baldoni, who also filed a $400 million defamation suit against the actress and a $250 million libel suit against the New York Times for publishing her statement.
Recently, he amended his suit against Lively to include more claims due "to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light," per the Daily Mail.
"This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to purely egotistical reasons Ms. Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications," Baldoni's lawyer, Freedman, said in a statement.
Freedman also claimed that the "ongoing public interest in this case online has ironically shed light" on how the New York Times and Lively and her representatives "initiated" and were "deeply involved" in the "attempted takedown and smear campaign" of Baldoni.
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The Actress's Request To Gag Justin Baldoni's Lawyer Was DeniedJudge Lewis Liman, who presides over the legal battle between Lively and Baldoni, recently denied the actress's request to place a gag order on her co-star's attorneys.
Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, had asked the court to issue a protective order to prevent Baldoni's lawyer, Freedman, from engaging in "improper conduct," including going on an alleged "harassing and retaliatory media campaign" against them.
In their request, they alleged that Freedman was "violating court rules that stop a lawyer from making statements to the press that are irrelevant to a case and might prejudice the jury."
However, Judge Liman denied the couple's request and instead said that he'll be adopting a rule for lawyers known as Rule 3.6, which bars both parties from making extrajudicial statements that could influence the jury.
"My expectation is the parties will comply with their ethical obligations. I don't expect this case to devolve into satellite litigation over the comments of a lawyer," Liman said, per the Daily Mail. "Both have said a lot in the pleadings that give the public plenty to feast upon."
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