Taylor Swift ‘leaker’ UNMASKED: Insider who uncovered Blake Lively ‘danger’ is published… as somebody you’ll by no means be expecting

When Taylor Swift was once unceremoniously subpoenaed as a witness within the case between her former buddy Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni previous this month, it appeared the billionaire pop princess would have her day in courtroom.

But this week got here a reprieve: Baldoni’s felony crew – led via legal professional Bryan Freedman – dramatically reneged, retreating the subpoena for Swift.

Far from an embarrassment for Team Baldoni, then again, the Daily Mail understands that it was once merely the case that they would already were given what they have been after.

And that is as a result of, an unnamed insider in Swift’s inside circle allegedly equipped documented proof to Freedman and co detailing how Lively’s lawyers had ‘threatened to leak’ the actress’s non-public exchanges with Swift, in a failed try to coerce the singer into publicly siding along with her towards Baldoni.

Lively has denied the allegation – however that hasn’t stopped the fevered fan hypothesis over who precisely in Swift’s inside circle blew the whistle.

Now, in a in reality sensational escalation within the public struggle between the 2 girls, an within supply has completely published to the Daily Mail that the ‘leaker’ is none rather than Scott Swift – the singer’s 73-year-old father.

‘Scott Swift didn’t need his daughter to be dragged into this to any extent further and he voluntarily gave up this data as a part of a deal that would come with [Baldoni’s team] retreating their subpoena for Taylor,’ the supply defined.

The pop big name’s doting dad – who has performed a key position in development Swift’s billion-dollar empire as her monetary consultant – got here to his daughter’s rescue after she was once allegedly blackmailed via Lively’s legal professionals.

That ‘blackmail’ revelation seemed in a felony letter filed previous this month via Baldoni’s legal professionals, who alleged that Lively’s crew had tried to ‘coerce’ Swift to factor a public observation in improve of her.

The submitting claimed Lively’s attorney, Michael Gottlieb, had contacted Swift’s crew and demanded she ‘unencumber a observation of improve for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to take action, non-public textual content messages of a private nature in Ms. Lively’s ownership can be launched.’

Swift’s crew allegedly answered to Lively’s ‘beside the point and it sounds as if extortionate threats in a minimum of one written verbal exchange’ despatched to Gottlieb, in line with the letter.

‘It is the ones communications that [Baldoni’s team] seeks to procure by the use of subpoena, as they’d proof an try to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness on this litigation,’ the letter mentioned.

Scott reputedly did not take this alleged try to extort his 35-year-old daughter flippantly, and made up our minds to take issues into his personal palms via cooperating with Baldoni and Bryan Freedman so as to offer protection to Swift from to any extent further felony involvement.

A supply finds to the Daily Mail that Swift’s father Scott Swift, left, struck a maintain Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman after Lively’s legal professionals allegedly tried to ‘coerce’ Swift into publicly supporting the actress

Scott Swift ‘voluntarily gave up this data as a part of a deal that would come with Wayfarer retreating their subpoena for Taylor,’ the supply defined

The supply stated Scott ‘didn’t need his daughter to be dragged into this to any extent further’

‘Plain and easy – they attempted to extort Taylor via threatening to unencumber non-public details about her in order that she would improve a story that she was once no longer part of,’ our supply added.

In a observation to People mag, Gottlieb described the advice that Lively’s legal professionals had threatened Swift as ‘categorically false.’

Lively’s legal professionals later filed a movement asking the courtroom to strike the accusations from its docket as ‘baseless, needless, incorrect and abusive.’ The movement to disregard the letter was once granted.

However, this newest twist sheds additional gentle at the cave in of Swift and Lively’s once-close friendship, which has long past chilly amid the actress’s high-stakes lawsuit.

The drama started ultimate December when Lively, 37, accused Baldoni, her It Ends With Us co-star and director, of sexual harassment and coordinating a smear marketing campaign towards her.

Baldoni, 41, hit again in January, with a $400 million countersuit accusing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, of defamation. All events have denied the allegations.

But contained in Baldoni’s submitting have been screenshots of alleged textual content messages, through which Lively ceaselessly discussed Swift via identify.

In one now notorious and toe-curling trade, Lively perceived to confer with herself as the nature Khaleesi – from Game of Thrones – and to Swift as certainly one of her ‘dragons.’

Elsewhere in Baldoni’s submitting is the declare that Swift was once provide at a gathering convened via Lively at her New York penthouse to talk about It Ends With Us script adjustments.

Scott, affectionately nicknamed via enthusiasts as ‘Papa Swift,’ is ceaselessly credited with paving the way in which for his billionaire daughter’s monetary good fortune

Andrea, 67, and Scott, 73, have been married in 1989 however quietly cut up in 2011. They’re additionally folks to 33-year-old son Austin Swift

Sources on the subject of Swift insisted the singer had no wisdom of the assembly and easily grew to become as much as in finding it underway.

Nonetheless, the entire furor reportedly left Swift – who’s godmother to Lively’s 3 daughters – feeling ‘exploited’ and ‘used’ via her buddy of ten years.

Earlier this month, issues worsened when Swift was once formally subpoenaed as a witness to the impending trial, which is scheduled for March subsequent yr. 

At the time, a spokesperson for the singer fired again: ‘Taylor Swift by no means set foot at the set of this film, she was once no longer considering any casting or inventive choices, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes at the movie, she didn’t even see It Ends With Us till weeks after its public unencumber.’

This week, the subpoena was once withdrawn – and all because of the person enthusiasts affectionately know as ‘Papa Swift.’

Scott, a former stockbroker and fiscal consultant for Merrill Lynch, has lengthy been credited as paving the way in which for his daughter’s monetary good fortune.

A disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission lists him as connected to 10 firms affiliated together with his daughter, in line with Bloomberg. 

Last yr, he was once accused of assaulting a photographer who was once ‘ready’ for Swift’s arrival off a luxurious yacht in Sydney following the Australian leg of her Eras Tour.

In a observation to Daily Mail Australia on the time, a rep for Swift described the photographers as ‘competitive’ and her father later have shyed away from fees.

Scott is not the one member of Swift’s inside circle to shield the pop big name amid the felony drama.

Her boyfriend, NFL big name Travis Kelce, not too long ago unfollowed Ryan Reynolds on Instagram, whilst twiglet Gigi Hadid, any other of Swift’s closest pals, has reportedly ‘iced out’ Lively in harmony.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Taylor and Scott Swift for remark.