Taylor Swift is officially out of the courtroom chaos between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, after being dropped from the lawsuit.
In a dramatic turn no one saw coming, Baldoni’s legal team withdrew the subpoena that had originally pulled Swift into the messy, high-profile legal feud involving alleged harassment, defamation, and extortion. The news, confirmed by Lively’s spokesperson on May 22, marks a sharp reversal after weeks of heated back-and-forth that even saw Swift’s name trending across social media for reasons she never asked for.
“We’re pleased Baldoni’s lawyers withdrew their harassing subpoenas to Taylor Swift and her law firm,” Lively’s rep said in a statement. “We supported Taylor’s team in quashing these inappropriate subpoenas, and we’ll continue to stand up for third parties who are unjustly dragged into this process.”
The statement didn’t stop there. Lively’s team made it clear they believed the subpoena was never about facts — just headlines.
“The Baldoni and Wayfarer team have tried to use Taylor Swift’s celebrity as a distraction,” the rep continued. “From the start, the plan was to make Taylor the center of a case she had nothing to do with — all to create tabloid clickbait. When faced with explaining themselves in court, they folded.”
Earlier this month, Baldoni’s lawyers had subpoenaed Swift, alleging she was part of a pressure campaign involving Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds. In one wild claim, they said Lively had threatened to leak personal texts between herself and Swift unless Swift issued a public show of support. Lively’s attorney Mike Gottlieb called the allegations “categorically false.”
To make things even messier, Baldoni’s team included references to Swift’s music and presence in earlier filings, claiming she “praised” Lively’s rewrite of It Ends With Us — allegedly signaling to Baldoni that he had no choice but to comply.
But Swift’s camp was having none of it.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on set, had no involvement in casting, production, scoring, editing — nothing,” her rep said in a fiery statement. “She licensed a single song — ‘My Tears Ricochet’ — along with 19 other artists. That’s it. The subpoena was never about facts. It was about using her name.”
The court appeared to agree — at least partially. On May 15, Judge Lewis J. Liman struck Baldoni’s letter alleging text-based threats from the record, calling it “improper” and “irrelevant.”
With the subpoena now officially dropped, Taylor Swift can bow out of a trial that’s still packed with drama. Meanwhile, the legal war between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is far from over.
Lively, 37, filed a bombshell lawsuit in December 2024, accusing Baldoni, her It Ends With Us co-star and director, of sexual harassment, unprofessional conduct, and retaliation. Baldoni countersued in January, alleging defamation and extortion, even dragging in Reynolds and Swift as part of what he called a “smear campaign.”
The trial is set for March 2026, and if the early motions are any indication, things are going to get way messier before they get resolved.
For now, Swift can focus on her vacation mode with Travis and avoid getting caught in the courtroom spotlight. But if one thing’s clear from this saga, it’s that celebrity friendships aren’t off-limits in legal warfare — even if you’re Taylor Swift.
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