Details from over a decade of friendship, relationships, and private confidences, including matters possibly related to mental wellness, celebrity privacy law, and emotional trauma.
It also claims Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb had contacted Swift’s attorney and demanded “that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that,
If Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.”
In response, Swift’s reps purportedly addressed Lively’s “inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats in at least one written communication” sent to Gottlieb, according to Freedman.
“It is those communications that [Baldoni’s team] seeks to obtain by way of subpoena, as they would evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in this litigation,” the letter states.
Legal experts have noted that these actions could intersect with medical malpractice deposition strategy if any health-related discussions are included in texts.
