Two weeks in the past Taylor Swift was subpoenaed to testify in her longtime pal Blake Energetic’s lawsuit in opposition to Justin Baldoni, the director of her film It Ends With Us. Energetic is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and a supposed on-line smear marketing campaign waged in opposition to Energetic after the harassment allegations got here out. Confirming the subpoena, a rep for Swift famous that she “by no means set foot on the set of this film, was not aware of its creation in any manner, “and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the largest tour in historical past.” She did, nonetheless, hang around with Blake Energetic through the making of the film; the photograph above exhibits them collectively on the Tremendous Bowl in February 2024.
It appears Swift is getting out of this one. Baldoni’s workforce, which was accountable for subpoenaing Swift, has dropped the subpoena, Folks experiences. A rep for Energetic tells the magazine that they’re “happy” that Baldoni’s facet have “withdrawn their harassing subpoenas to Taylor Swift and her regulation agency.” Staff Energetic’s assertion continues:
We supported the efforts of Taylor’s workforce to quash these inappropriate subpoenas directed to her counsel, and we are going to proceed to face up for any third celebration who’s unjustly harassed or threatened within the course of.
The Baldoni and Wayfarer workforce have tried to place Taylor Swift, a girl who has been an inspiration for tens of thousands and thousands throughout the globe, on the middle of this case since day one. Exploiting Taylor Swift’s celeb was the unique plan in Melissa Nathan’s state of affairs planning doc, and it continues to at the present time. Confronted with having to justify themselves in federal court docket, they folded. Sooner or later they are going to run out of distractions from the precise claims of sexual harassment and retaliation they’re going through.
Simply final evening on Everyone’s Reside, John Mulaney requested his future self (Peter Gallagher) what occurs within the Baldoni case: “Did Blake actually inform Taylor, ‘You gotta stick up for me’?” I assume we’ll by no means know.
John Mulaney meets his future self who appears to be like a LOT like Peter Gallagher. #EverybodysLive pic.twitter.com/a6FJ3xHohc
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In different Swift information, Web page Six is reporting a rumor that Shamrock Capital, which purchased the grasp recordings for her first six albums from Scooter Braun (sparking all these vengeful Taylor’s Model re-recordings), is taken with promoting them again to Swift, and Braun is reportedly encouraging them to do it. That will be nice information as a result of possibly then all of the Swift playlists on the streaming providers would swap the originals again in. Ain’t no one wish to hear “Love Story (Taylor’s Model)” as a substitute of the unique.
