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REVEALED: Blake Lively's 'super shady' legal tactic that set off war with Justin Baldoni before he even had a clue


Blake Lively quietly filed a clandestine lawsuit months before her legal war with Justin Baldoni became public, in an apparent plot to seize damning texts from his publicist, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Blake Lively quietly filed a clandestine lawsuit months before her legal war with It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni became public, in an apparent plot to seize damning text messages from his publicist. Jones did not object to the subpoena and turned over a trove of private messages between Jennifer Abel, a former staffer at her PR agency who continued working with Baldoni, and crisis management guru Melissa Nathan. Hudson was backed by Los Angeles-based attorney Lincoln Bandlow, who said it is 'not unusual' to file a lawsuit against unnamed defendants if the plaintiff doesn't know their names yet, for example in defamation cases against anonymous social media users.

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