Justin Baldoni granted entry to Taylor Swift and Blake Vigorous’s non-public textual content messages
A federal choose denied Blake Vigorous’s request to maintain a few of her non-public textual content messages with Taylor Swift from Justin Baldoni, marking a significant authorized victory for the embattled “It Ends with Us” actor and director.
U.S. District Decide Lewis Liman deemed in a court docket submitting on Wednesday that Baldoni’s requests for some messages between Vigorous and Swift had been permissible.
Baldoni’s authorized staff will solely have entry to textual content messages about “It Ends with Us,” the choose dominated. Vigorous and Baldoni starred within the 2024 movie, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling romance novel “It Ends with Us” which is on the heart of their ongoing authorized battle.
“Provided that Vigorous has represented that Swift had information of complaints or discussions concerning the working surroundings on the movie, amongst different points, the requests for messages with Swift relating to the movie and this motion are moderately tailor-made to find data that might show or disprove Vigorous’s harassment and retaliation claims,” the choose wrote.
A consultant for Vigorous denounced the choose’s resolution.
“Baldoni’s need to pull Taylor Swift into this has been fixed relationship again to August 2024 … a method to affect the ‘TS fanbase,'” the spokesperson mentioned.
“We are going to proceed to name out Baldoni’s relentless efforts to take advantage of Ms Swift’s recognition, which from day one has been nothing greater than a distraction from the intense sexual harassment and retaliation accusations he and the Wayfarer events are dealing with,” the spokesperson added, referring to the movie’s manufacturing firm.
Representatives for Swift and Baldoni didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
Vigorous sued Baldoni and others related to the movie final yr, alleging that Baldoni sexually harassed her and launched a public relations smear marketing campaign to destroy her status. Baldoni has denied the allegations.
Days later, Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios countersued Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds and The New York Occasions — which reported particulars of the allegations — for defamation. That swimsuit, which requested damages of $400 million, was dismissed in court docket final week.
Swift, who’s the godmother of considered one of Vigorous’s youngsters and has regularly been seen in public with Vigorous, was dragged into the swimsuit final month.
Baldoni’s legal professional tried to subpoena her as a possible witness within the March 2026 trial. Swift’s tune, “My Tears Ricochet,” was featured within the movie’s soundtrack, however she didn’t have a task within the manufacturing of the film.
“Provided that her involvement was licensing a tune for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as an alternative of specializing in the information of the case,” a spokesperson for Swift mentioned on the time.
Baldoni’s request to subpoena Swift was dropped days later.
Swift and Vigorous haven’t been photographed collectively for the reason that authorized battle started final yr, nor has the pop star commented on the case publicly.