The Justin Baldoni and Blake Energetic battle over what went down on It Ends With Us and the alleged astroturfing that adopted is beginning to appear a glance so much just like the Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura case, at the least when it comes to ways and texts.
In a surprising letter immediately to the federal choose overseeing the $400 million and extra lawsuits between the IEWU stars, Ryan Reynolds, the New York Occasions, varied PR corporations, and Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios, the Jane the Virgin alum’s important lawyer accuses Energetic of threatening to disgrace her ‘Fortnight’ pal until Swift publicly provide robust assist. A declare that Energetic and Reynolds’ lawyer Micheal Gottieb initially stated was “fully false.” Now one other lawyer for the One other Easy Favor star is looking an try by Bryan Freedman “to launder scandalous and defamatory allegations about Ms. Energetic and opposing counsel into the press.”
In a blistering letter of their very own simply filed with the court docket and Decide Lewis J. Liman, Energetic and Reynolds’ Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips legal professional need the correspondence from the pugilistic Freedman struck from the docket — and which may not be the top of it.
“On behalf of our shopper, Blake Energetic, we respectfully transfer to strike the letter signed by Mr. Bryan Freedman and filed earlier immediately,” Manatt’s Esra Hudson exclaims. “That letter, which was not filed with any evidentiary assist of any sort, a lot much less something below oath, falsely accuses Ms. Energetic, and her counsel, of participating in ‘witness tampering and proof spoliation’ primarily based on an undisclosed nameless supply,” Hudson continues, after Freedman and his Baldoni crew have owned the media with Swift and Energetic catfight tales for the previous two hours.
“It ought to be pointless to reply to anonymously sourced, baseless, allegations recklessly leveled with none supporting proof,” the sanctions threatening letter provides. It’s value stating for the report, nonetheless, that every of the allegations within the Freedman Letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false.” Whereas there was silence from the beforehand subpoena served Swift’s facet amidst all this Wednesday, Energetic’s attorneys remind Decide Liman of his stern February 3 warning to all sides on this excessive profile matter that there could be penalties if he noticed the case “litigated within the press.”
Heading in the direction of the March 9, 2026 trial begin of this matter, that has solely simply been changed within the headlines by Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ongoing sex-trafficking trial going down in decrease Manhattan beginning this week, solely fools and horses wouldn’t say this matter hasn’t been litigated within the press for ages — and I don’t imply fellow defendant the Grey Woman.
Actually, Freedman is a talented practitioners of authorized fireworks that gentle up the sky and seize everybody’s consideration – immediately greater than ever as his communication with Decide Liman was picked up worldwide.
It’s not onerous to see why.
Freedman’s letter in wanting the Swift subpoena enforced says: Particularly, the Wayfarer Events’ counsel are knowledgeable and imagine, primarily based on data from a supply who is very more likely to have dependable data, that (i) Ms. Energetic requested that Taylor Swift delete their textual content messages; (ii) Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr, counsel for the Energetic Defendants, contacted a Venable legal professional who represents Ms. Swift and demanded that Ms. Swift launch an announcement of assist for Ms. Energetic, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to take action, non-public textual content messages of a private nature in Ms. Energetic’s possession could be launched. The Wayfarer Events’ counsel are additional knowledgeable and imagine {that a} consultant of Ms. Swift addressed these inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats in at the least one written communication transmitted to Mr. Gottlieb. It’s these communications that the Wayfarer Events search to acquire by the use of subpoena, as they’d proof an try to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness on this litigation.
Whereas there’s up to now no truly proof of Energetic robust arming one in all her supposed greatest and most well-known associates within the very method Diddy is accused on in his legal case, the very fact is IEWU soundtrack contributor Swift has been on the periphery of this multi-million greenback and repute defining case virtually from the leap. Not talked about when Energetic on December 20 filed a sexual harassment and retaliation grievance towards Energetic, his Wayfarer Studios, execs, and PR chiefs Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel with California’s Civil Rights Division. Swift was all however named dropped by Energetic as one in all her “Dragons,” together with hubby and Deadpool star Reynolds, in texts that had been launched by either side within the IEWU dispute. In no small gesture on the high of fame and cultural actual energy final summer season, Swift additionally present her pal’s edit of the Sony distributed and Baldoni directed home violence themed movie with some celebrity juice together with her ‘My Tears Ricochet’ tune.
Managing to straight keep out the Energetic-Baldoni fray (although not the tabloids’ speculations of the state of Energetic-Swift friendship) till just lately, the controversy antagonistic Swift was fast to slap down the subpoena Baldoni’s group served on her at first of this month. “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 a substitute of specializing in the details of the case,” the Eras Tour performer’s spokesperson informed Deadline on Could 9.
When that is all stated and finished, after the trial is completed, somebody goes to be left with fairly the repute, and I don’t imply Swift’s 2017 album.
