Blake Lively made an absolutely wild statement in her latest letter to the judge in the legal battle with Justin Baldoni!
As we previously reported, their legal teams have been squabbling over subpoenas the Gossip Girl alum filed earlier this month. She demanded Justin and his associates, including publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis management expert Melissa Nathan, hand over their phone records as she is looking for more “receipts” to “expose” the alleged smear campaign they started to ruin her reputation after she spoke up about being sexually harassed on the set of It Ends With Us.
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However, Justin has fought back against the request. His attorney slammed the subpoenas from Blake’s legal team, calling it “flagrantly overbroad,” “invasive,” and “far beyond what is appropriate (or even legal) in civil litigation.” The lawyer warned it could expose “real-time location information” and private communications unrelated to the case, including those with spouses, doctors, attorneys, and more. Perhaps even reveal conversations with mistresses and psychiatrists… Wait what!
According to a letter sent to Judge Lewis Liman on Monday about the subpoenas, Blake claimed that is something Justin’s team brought up! The actress claimed both parties had a meeting on February 20, during which they agreed that “removing any request for locational data from the Subpoenas” and “providing express language to clarify that the requests applied exclusively to non-content information” would ease his team’s worries. Yet his attorneys weren’t happy. They felt the subpoenas were still “overbroad.” The letter continued:
“Counsel for Ms. Lively expressly requested that the Wayfarer Parties identify any modifications that would allay their concerns with the Subpoenas’ putative overbreadth, but the only limitation that the Wayfarer Parties were able to identify was their demand that Ms. Lively limit her request to contacts with specific third-party telephone numbers identity in advance.”
Blake is not down for that, though! Her legal team noted that the limitation is “inappropriate given the purpose of the specific discovery sought, and the purpose of discovery generally.” Now here is where things get interesting! There is a footnote attached to that paragraph of the letter, claiming:
“To crystallize their positions as to the Subpoenas’ putative overbreadth, counsel for the Wayfarer Parties indicated that the Subpoenas, as issued, would problematically reveal whether Mr. Baldoni communicated with ‘five mistresses,’ or whether he had communications with ‘five psychiatrists.’”
Whoa! “Five mistresses!” Are they trying to suggest something happened that none of us know about?! Despite the phrase, there is no proof at the moment to support that Justin cheated on his wife Emily Baldoni (pictured above) and had all these mistresses. It sounds like his team was being sarcastic (we hope) and proposed a hypothetical scenario in the meeting, and she threw this tidbit in her letter to be shady!
Her legal team continued to argue that the subpoenas are not meant to reveal the identities of anyone, including his alleged mistresses, but are necessary to uncover much-needed evidence for her smear campaign claims:
“While a non-content subpoena would not reveal the identity of either ‘mistresses’ or ‘psychiatrists,’ it would reveal vitally important information about the phone numbers defendants contacted, and when they did so, each of which is highly relevant to Ms. Lively’s retaliation and defamation claims, as well as being entirely permissible in the course of ordinary discovery.”
Hmm. Check out that page of the letter (below):
This is Blake’s letter to the Judge, where she references Baldoni’s “mistresses” ???? https://t.co/kzlwN3J7II pic.twitter.com/TZqcpmF1bI
— Zack Peter (@justplainzack) February 25, 2025
What are YOUR reactions, Perezcious readers? Was Blake being shady? Let us know in the comments!
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