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Justin Baldoni’s Lawyers Accuse Blake Lively’s Lawyers of Extorting Taylor Swift

Justin Baldoni's lawyers accused Blake Lively’s legal team of attempting to extort a public statement out of Taylor Swift.

Freedman claimed that a rep for Swift “addressed these inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats,” which reflect an alleged pattern of intimidating and coercing witnesses by Lively’s legal team, the letter stated. Swift’s law firm, Venable, previously called the subpoena an “ abuse of the discovery process,” meant to distract from the case.” “Venable had nothing to do with the film at issue or any of the claims or defenses asserted in the underlying lawsuit,” wrote the firm in a motion on Monday.

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