Blake Lively is taking her legal battle with Justin Baldoni to the next level—now demanding access to his phone records. Lively and Ryan Reynolds have issued subpoenas to major phone carriers and a social media strategist, aiming to expose what they call a year-long smear campaign. But Baldoni’s team is firing back, calling the move an outrageous overreach.
With countersuits, defamation claims, and accusations flying, this It Ends With Us legal drama is only getting messier. Will the phone records change everything, or is this just the latest twist?
With countersuits, defamation claims, and accusations flying, this It Ends With Us legal drama is only getting messier. Will the phone records change everything, or is this just the latest twist?
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00:00Blake Lively is turning up the heat in her legal battle with It Ends With Us co-star
00:03Justin Baldoni, now demanding access to his phone records. Let's break it all down.
00:09E! News reports the Gossip Girl alum has officially filed a subpoena for Baldoni's
00:13phone records, according to a statement from her legal team. Lively's lawyers say the move
00:18is an effort to expose the people, tactics, and methods behind what they call a year-long
00:23smear campaign designed to destroy Lively's reputation and career. Deadline took to X
00:28to share that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have issued subpoenas to AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon,
00:34and alleged social media strategist Jed Wallace in response to Justin Baldoni and his attorney
00:40Brian Friedman's claims of transparency. Baldoni's legal team is pushing back. The director's lawyer,
00:46Brian Friedman, slammed the request, calling it an extraordinary overreach and claims Lively's
00:52lawyers are demanding every call, text, data log, and even real-time location information
00:58for the last two and a half years, according to E! News. Friedman told E! News this massive
01:04phishing expedition demonstrates that they are desperately seeking any factual basis
01:09for their provable false claims. They will find none. This latest twist is just one of
01:15the most recent chapters in the It Ends With Us legal drama. Back in December,
01:19Lively filed a formal complaint with the California Civil Rights Department,
01:23accusing Baldoni of retaliation after she alleged sexual harassment on set, which was first reported
01:29by the New York Times. Not long after, Baldoni hit back with a $400 million counter-suit against
01:35Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their publicists, along with a $250 million defamation lawsuit
01:41against the New York Times. While all sides are denying the allegations, one thing's for sure,
01:46this legal battle is far from over. So will these photo records reveal something game-changing,
01:51or is this just the latest twist in an already messy battle?
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