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On May 15, 2025, American columnist and blogger Perez Hilton gave his insights on Judge Lewis J. Liman's decision to grant Blake Lively's motion to dismiss a letter from Justin Baldoni's attorney the same day.
For the unversed, Baldoni's chief attorney, Bryan Freedman, filed a letter on May 14, 2025, claiming to have received information from a source likely to have "reliable information," as per People. In the legal letter, Freedman alleged that Blake's attorney, Michael Gottlieb, threatened Taylor Swift, adding:
"They demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively's possession would be made public."
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According to The New York Post, Lively's legal team filed a motion to dismiss Freedman's legal letter. The Another Simple Favor star's motion was approved hours after Gottlieb denied the allegations against him.
Perez, in his recent YouTube video, noted:
"Congratulations to Cruella Lively [Blake Lively]; she just scored a much-needed win in court."
On May 15, 2025, a representative for Lively told The New York Post:
"It took the court less than 24 hours to see through Mr. Freedman’s irrelevant, improper and inflammatory accusations, strike them, remove them from the court and warn Mr. Freedman that further misconduct may be met with sanctions."
Reflecting on Blake Lively's spokesperson's comments, Perez remarked:
"The judge said today that further misuse of the court's docket may result in sanctions, so Baldon's lawyer needs to be on his best behavior."
Exploring Bryan Freedman's new affidavit, detailing the source's claims about Blake Lively's attorney
After filing a legal letter to Judge Lewis Liman on May 14, Bryan Freedman reaffirmed his claims in a signed affidavit, elaborating on their source's claims.
As reported by People Magazine on May 15, 2025, Freedman claimed to have an hour-long conversation with a "person very closely linked to Taylor Swift" on February 14, 2025. Freedman claimed he had "several phone calls" with the source and got introduced to him through a "mutual friend," who told him that "the individual wanted to talk."
The source claimed that Lively's lawyer allegedly called Taylor's lawyer and "requested, on Ms. Lively's behalf, that Taylor Swift make a social media statement in support of Ms. Lively given her absence from the Super Bowl that year."
The anonymous source alleged that Lively's attorney stated, "if Ms. Swift failed to do so, Ms. Lively would release '10 years' of private texts with Ms. Swift."
In a statement to People Magazine (published on May 14), Lively's attorney, Michael Gottlieb, denied the claims made by Freedman in his legal letter filed on May 14. In his statement, Gottlieb remarked:
"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."
He called out Bryan Freedman for acting impulsively, "without any evidence," adding:
"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."
Meanwhile, the trial is scheduled for March 9, 2026, following the ongoing legal conflict between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
