Taylor Swift
Blake Tried To Strongarm Her For Public Help …
Baldoni Lawyer Claims
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Blake Energetic‘s attorneys allegedly tried to pressure Taylor Swift into publicly supporting Energetic in her beef with Justin Baldoni by threatening to launch Taylor’s personal textual content messages if she did not play ball … not less than in keeping with Baldoni’s lawyer.
In new authorized docs obtained by TMZ, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman claims the subpoena he despatched to legal professionals for Taylor was supposed to get info associated to potential witness tampering and proof spoliation.
Freedman claims he has it from an excellent 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 an announcement of help for Blake, intimating that if Taylor refused to take action, personal textual content messages of a private nature in Blake’s possession can be launched.
Justin’s lawyer additionally alleges one in every of Taylor’s reps addressed the “inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats” in not less than 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 by way of the subpoena … and he says it could be proof of “an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in 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 informed you … Blake and Taylor’s friendship was fractured after a textual content surfaced the place Blake informed Justin she was Khaleesi from “Game of Thrones” and husband Ryan Reynolds and Taylor have 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 is very related to the case.
Michael Gottlieb tells TMZ … “This is categorically false. We unequivocally deny all of these so-called allegations, which are cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality. This is what we have come to expect from the Wayfarer parties’ lawyers, who appear to love nothing more than shooting first, without any evidence, and with no care for the people they are harming in the process. We will imminently file motions with the court to hold these attorneys accountable for their misconduct here.”
