Taylor Swift Spokesperson Blasts Justin Baldoni Over Blake Lively Subpoena

“The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case,” the commentary reads.

It’s by no means the primary time that Baldoni’s staff has introduced Swift’s title up in reference to Lively. According to Lively’s preliminary felony submitting, the PR staff employed via Wayfarer supplied a “scenario planning document” that learn “our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want.”

In an e mail despatched to Wayfarer in a while sooner than the movie’s August 9, 2024 free up, a PR strategist wrote “We have seen the most innocuous issues turn giant due to socials or the hugest crises have no effect on social whatsoever. You just cannot tell at this stage. But, BL does have some of the same TS fanbase so we will be taking it extremely seriously.” (BL and TS are assumed to reference Lively and Swift, respectively.)

A spokesperson for Lively says that the Baldoni staff’s transfer to carry Swift into the case is some other try to punish Lively for talking out.

“Mr Baldoni, [Wayfarer Studios co-founder Steve Sarowitz], and team continue to turn a case of sexual harassment and retaliation into entertainment for the tabloids, going as far as suggesting that they sell tickets to a concert venue – Madison Square Garden – to witness Ms. Lively’s deposition, to subpoenaing Taylor Swift, a woman who has given a voice to millions the world over. This is a very serious legal matter, not Barnum & Bailey’s Circus,” the commentary reads.

“The defendants continue to publicly intimidate, bully, shame and attack women’s rights and reputations. Including in the past month seeking to strike down for all, a powerful California victims’ rights law, calling it ‘unconstitutional’. The disturbing actions by a billionaire, men who made their careers as ‘female allies’ and their team continue to show their true colors.”

The case is predicted to be heard in the USA District Court for the Southern District of New York on March 9, 2026, with Judge Lewis J. Liman presiding.