Taylor Swift’s Group Calls Subpoena in Energetic- Balboni Case ‘Clickbait’

Taylor Swift is the most recent huge identify to look in Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni’s contentious authorized scuffle.

TMZ reported on Friday that Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, subpoenaed Swift as a witness within the case associated to “It Ends With Us,” a 2024 romance movie starring Baldoni and Energetic.

Though the movie did effectively on the world field workplace, its success has been overshadowed by the behind-the-scenes rift between its main stars. Along with appearing, Baldoni directed the movie, and Energetic was billed as a producer.

In response to the subpoena, a spokesperson mentioned Swift had minimal involvement within the movie past licensing her music “My Tears Ricochet.”

“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive selections, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see ‘It Ends With Us’ till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the most important tour in historical past,” the spokesperson advised Good Morning America.

The spokesperson mentioned the choice to subpoena one of many world’s greatest pop stars was made to create “tabloid clickbait.”

“The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing the usage of one music, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ Provided that her involvement was licensing a music for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s identify to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the details of the case,” the spokesperson mentioned.

Representatives for Swift, Energetic, and Baldoni didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.

Energetic and Baldoni have countersued one another

Up to now, neither Energetic nor Baldoni has backed down of their authorized battle.

Following the August 2024 premiere of “It Ends With Us,” based mostly on Colleen Hoover’s eponymous e-book, Energetic filed a grievance with the California Civil Rights Division accusing Baldoni of sexually harassing her and making a “hostile work surroundings that had practically derailed manufacturing of the Movie.”

The grievance additionally accused Baldoni and his crew of trying to break Energetic’s public status. The grievance, formalized right into a lawsuit final December, talked about Swift by identify.

Baldoni sued The New York Occasions for libel final December after the outlet revealed an article about Energetic’s accusations. One month later, Baldoni accused Energetic and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of taking on the movie and trying to harm his status in a $400 million lawsuit. Each Energetic and Reynolds have requested for Baldoni’s lawsuit to be dismissed.