Justin Baldoni has dropped his subpoena of Taylor Swift amidst his ongoing authorized battle with the pop star’s buddy, Blake Vigorous, as first reported by Deadline.
In accordance with sources for each Deadline and Web page Six, Baldoni may need withdrawn the subpoena after Swift voluntarily supplied the requested paperwork. “When info is voluntarily obtained, there isn’t any want for subpoenas,” a supply reportedly advised Web page Six.
A spokesperson for Vigorous nonetheless celebrated the information, saying in a press release, “We’re happy that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events have withdrawn their harassing subpoenas to Taylor Swift and her regulation agency. We supported the efforts of Taylor’s group to quash these inappropriate subpoenas directed to her counsel and we are going to proceed to face up for any third celebration 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 towards Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their publicity group. Within the countersuit, Baldoni claimed that Swift and Reynolds pressured him into accepting Vigorous’s rewrite of their movie, It Ends with Us.
On the time, Swift’s spokesperson launched a press release saying the singer “by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive choices, 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 title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as an alternative of specializing in the details of the case.”
Vigorous 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 Vigorous sued Baldoni for sexual harassment. Baldoni responded by submitting the aforementioned defamation go well with towards Vigorous and Reynolds.