Blake Lively is seeking Justin Baldoni’s phone records to uncover further evidence of his alleged smear campaign against her.
Lively’s lawyers sent subpoenas to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, requesting records for Baldoni, 41, as well as film producer Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, the cofounder of Baldoni’s production company Wayfarer Studios, Variety reported on Wednesday, February 12.
The actress’ legal team also seeks the records of Baldoni’s publicists Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan.
“Phone records belonging to all of the individual defendants will expose the full web of individuals who were involved in the smear campaign against Ms. Lively,” a Lively representative said Wednesday in a statement, per Variety. “Such records will provide critical and irrefutable evidence not only about who, but also about when, where, and how their retaliation plan came together and operated.”
In response, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, told the outlet that Lively, 37, had reportedly requested “every single call, text, data log, and even real-time location information” from the past two and a half years.
“This massive fishing expedition demonstrates that they are desperately seeking any factual basis for their provably false claims,” Freedman said. “They will find none.”
Lively’s public battle with Baldoni — who starred alongside her in the film It Ends With Us and served as director — began in December 2024 when she sued him for sexual harassment on the set. The actress subpoenaed thousands of pages of texts, emails and documents, which were posted by The New York Times in its blockbuster coverage of Lively’s complaint. She also accused Baldoni and his crisis management team of orchestrating a scheme to sabotage her reputation in an effort to bury her harassment claims.
Baldoni denied the allegations and countersued Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, seeking $400 million in damages. (Lively’s legal team slammed Baldoni’s “desperate” strategy in a statement at the time, claiming the lawsuit is an attempt to “shift the narrative” onto her and “does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint.”)
Lively’s lawyers sent additional subpoenas to the internet providers AOL and Cloudflare, and to crisis consultant Jed Wallace, whom Lively accused of participating in efforts to take her down. (Wallace sued Lively earlier this month, denying the allegations.)
“Ms. Lively has initiated discovery that will expose the people, tactics and methods that have worked to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ her reputation and family over the past year,” her lawyers, Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, said in a statement Wednesday, per Variety.
Meanwhile, the outlet cited a representative for Lively as saying, “We look forward to investigating more about Jed Wallace’s entire business model and what else he was doing to distract from the very real sexual harassment and retaliation claims made by Ms. Lively. We are delighted to be able to start discovery on it.”
Lively and Baldoni are set to go to trial in March 2026, though when their attorneys attended a court hearing on February 3, federal judge Lewis J. Liman stated that the actors’ trial date could be moved up if their legal drama continues to be “litigated in the press.”
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