Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni
Pictures by Raymond Hall/GC; Bryan Bedder/Getty pictures for Vital Voices Partnership GlobalA judge has issued this Blake Lively All cannot be cited Justin BaldoniText messages for your ongoing legal battle, Use weekly can confirm.
On Friday, February 28, the judge partially granted Lively’s application for Baldoni’s 41 -year -old Mobile Telephony Records several members of his production company Wayfarer Studios and his publicists. The court allows Lively, 37, to request telephone records of people who are not directly involved in the lawsuit.
However, the judge also rejected part of Lively’s request, more than two years of telephone records, saying that he was “too intrusive and disproportionate to the needs of the case.”
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman published a statement on his partial victory.
Justin Baldoni’s lawyers struck Blake Lively’s legal team as they are looking for telephone records in the middle of their ongoing legal drama. According to the court documents obtained by US Weekly, Mitchell Schuster sent a letter to the judge on Friday, February 14, representing Baldoni, 41, and his production company Wayfarer Studios. In the formalities, Schuster (…)
“The court stopped at the attempt by Mrs. Lively Lively to invade our clients’ privacy. This is a great victory,” Freedman said in a statement to a statement Us On Friday. “As much as the animated parts can try to turn this decision, the court saw their efforts for what they really are: a desperate fishing expedition to rescue their overwhelmed claims long after they were already saving our customers’ reputation New York Times. “”
Lively’s legal team also spoke of the sentence in a statement to Us.
Blake Lively (L) and Justin Baldoni
Gotham Pictures/GC/Getty Images“What is Bryan Freedman hiding? After promising to release all the “ receipts ”, Freedman ran into court to maintain the telephone records of who Baldoni, Heath, Sarowitz, Nathan, Wallace and Abel called during his retaliation campaign, ” he read a statement from a Lively spokesman. We send more specific applications, we can obtain the records we are looking for. Today we will do this, we send these applications directly to the defendants involved and look forward to seeing the records. “”
Baldoni and Lively’s legal drama began in December 2024 when the actress sued her Ends with us Posting and director By sexual harassment On the set. He also accused Baldoni and his crisis management team of orchestrating a scheme to damage his reputation.
Blake Lively is looking for Justin Baldoni’s telephone records to discover more evidence of his alleged frotis campaign against her. Lively’s lawyers sent appointments to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, requesting records for Baldoni, 41, as well as film producer Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, the co-founder of the Baldoni Wayfarer Studios production company, confirms Us Weekly. The (…)
Baldoni denied allegations and counted animated, her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand his publicist, Leslie Sloanelooking for $ 400 million in damage. Sloane, on the other hand, has requested to be retired from the demand. Baldoni also filed a lawsuit against The New York Timeswhich initially published Lively’s claims. The newspaper has defended its reports and Lively has denied all against -Contra -Baldoni’s consideration.
On Friday, News broke that Lively hired the Proc Shapiro crisis manager for his team. Shapiro is a former CIA employee.
“Lively’s litigation team retained Mr. Shapiro to advise the legal communications strategy for the demand for sexual harassment and ongoing retaliation that took place in the southern New York district,” Lively’s legal team confirmed to Us Weekly in a statement on Friday.
Lively and Baldoni have rejected mediation and are scheduled to go to trial in March 2026.