Blake Lively dropped the subpoenas her legal team fired off demanding information on three small-time content creators who covered her legal battle with Justin Baldoni, Us Weekly can exclusively report.
According to court documents obtained by Us, on July 26, Lively, 37, informed the court of her decision days after the YouTube creators begged the court for help.
Lively accuses Baldoni, who directed and costarred with her in It Ends With Us, of sexual harassment and retaliation in her federal lawsuit. He denied the accusations he hired a crisis PR team to smear her after she raised complaints about alleged on-set incidents.
In a letter to the judge, Lively’s team explained, “Based on the Third-Parties’ representations made in meet and confers, public statements, and/or information provided in their moving papers, there is no further information required from the Subpoenas as to these specific Third-Parties at this time.”
A judge has ruled that Blake Lively cannot subpoena all of Justin Baldoni’s text messages for their ongoing legal battle, Us Weekly can confirm. On Friday, February 28, the judge partially granted Lively’s request for the cell phone records of Baldoni, 41, multiple members of his production company Wayfarer Studios and his publicists. The court […]
Her legal team added, “Ms. Lively has therefore withdrawn the Subpoenas as to them.”
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Lively’s lawyers said the subpoenas were issued as part of the “discovery process aimed at gathering information to link [Baldoni] and the other defendants’ activities to sources through YouTube and X content creator accounts.”
The letter said Lively’s team withdrew the subpoenas sent to Google and X demanding information on YouTubers Kassidy O’Connell, McKenzie Folks and Lauren Neidigh.
Lively only dismissed the subpoenas for several content creators but is still working to uncover information on various other YouTubers and third-party content creators. Her legal team pointed to an alleged text sent by a member of Baldoni’s team which they argue proves Baldoni’s PR team planned an “untraceable” digital campaign against Lively for her speaking out against his alleged on-set behavior.
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As Us previously reported, earlier this month, O’Connell, Neidigh, and other creators wrote letters to the judge presiding over Lively’s case.
O’Connell argued, “There is no evidence or sound legal basis whatsoever to have issued this subpoena in the first place.”
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“[Lively] has been gratuitously allowed to extend her witch hunt for discovery, in which she has no evidence to support,” O’Connell added. Another creator named Lauren Neidigh claimed the subpoena issued by Lively to Google was “unduly burdensome” and said it was meant to “harass” and “intimidate.”
The subpoenas asked Google to turn over information about the creators’ accounts, including credit card and bank account information for some.
Lively’s team released a statement that argued the subpoenas were a normal part of litigation.
Justin Baldoni’s lawyers slammed Blake Lively’s legal team as they are seeking phone records amid their ongoing legal drama. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, a letter was sent to the judge on Friday, February 14, by Mitchell Schuster, who represents Baldoni, 41, and his production company Wayfarer Studios. In the paperwork, Schuster […]
A rep for Lively told Us, “Subpoenas are not accusations of wrongdoing. They are tools for gathering admissible evidence in federal court. There is no silencing of content creators, they are obviously making their views known. This is a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and a number of other Wayfarer defendants and we are simply seeking information to aid in our fact gathering.”
“Remember [Baldoni’s crisis PR rep’s] own words: to shield Justin Baldoni from the possibility that Blake Lively might publicly reveal he sexually harassed her and others, [Baldoni’s rep] planned an ‘untraceable’ media campaign designed to ‘bury’ Ms. Lively,” the rep added. “The subpoenas to social media companies are one piece of the puzzle to connect the evidentiary dots of a campaign that was designed to leave no fingerprints.”
As Us previously reported, Lively’s deposition in the legal battle has been postponed. She will not be questioned by Baldoni’s lawyers on July 31.
Lively and Baldoni, 41, are scheduled to face off at a trial starting on March 9, 2026.
