Taylor Swift
Blake Tried To Strongarm Her For Public Assist …
Baldoni Lawyer Claims
Revealed
Blake Full of life‘s attorneys allegedly tried to drive Taylor Swift into publicly supporting Full of life in her beef with Justin Baldoni by threatening to launch Taylor’s non-public textual content messages if she did not play ball … a minimum of in keeping with Baldoni’s lawyer.
In new authorized docs obtained by TMZ, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman claims the subpoena he despatched to attorneys for Taylor was supposed to get data associated to doable witness tampering and proof spoliation.
Freedman claims he has it from a superb supply that Blake allegedly requested that Taylor delete their textual content messages.
What’s extra, Freedman claims one in every of Blake’s attorneys, Michael Gottlieb, contacted an legal professional who represents Taylor and demanded that Taylor launch a press release of assist for Blake, intimating that if Taylor refused to take action, non-public textual content messages of a private nature in Blake’s possession could be launched.
Justin’s lawyer additionally alleges one in every of Taylor’s reps addressed the “inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats” in a minimum of one written communication despatched to Blake’s legal professional, Gottlieb.
Freedman says it is these alleged communications that he is making an attempt to get his palms on through the subpoena … and he says it might be proof of “an try and intimidate and coerce a percipient witness on this litigation.”
For her half, Taylor’s camp has blasted the subpoena … claiming she was minimally concerned within the drama on the set of “It Ends With Us” … which sparked the nasty authorized warfare between Blake and Justin.
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As we first advised you … Blake and Taylor’s friendship was fractured after a textual content surfaced the place Blake advised Justin she was Khaleesi from “Recreation of Thrones” and husband Ryan Reynolds and Taylor had been her “dragons.”
Taylor was royally pissed over the textual content message, and sources near her pushed again on the notion she was ever one in every of Blake’s “dragons.”
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Blake is making an attempt to quash the Swift subpoena … however Freedman says it’s totally related to the case.
Michael Gottlieb tells TMZ … “That is categorically false. We unequivocally deny all of those so-called allegations, that are cowardly sourced to supposed nameless sources, and utterly untethered from actuality. That is what we’ve got come to anticipate from the Wayfarer events’ attorneys, who seem to like nothing greater than taking pictures first, with none proof, and with no take care of the folks they’re harming within the course of. We’ll imminently file motions with the courtroom to carry these attorneys accountable for his or her misconduct right here.”
