Blake Livelys lawyer accused of threatening to release Taylor Swift texts in It Ends With Us legal war

A simple favor.Blake Lively’s lead attorney, Mike Gottlieb, allegedly threatened to release Taylor Swift’s private text messages if the singer didn’t publicly support the star in her “It Ends With Us” legal battle.Justin Baldoni’s legal team laid bare the bombshell allegations in a shocking new court filing obtained by The Post; however, Gottlieb shot down the accusations, calling them “categorically false.”Last week, Swift was dragged into Lively’s ongoing feud with Baldoni when the superstar singer was subpoenaed as a witness in the legal war.In a letter to the judge on Wednesday, Baldoni’s lawyers explained why they want to talk to Swift, particularly, after Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, attempted to quash the subpoena.“The Lively Defendants’ insistence that the Subpoena seeks irrelevant information is wrong,” Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s attorney, wrote in the latest legal doc.Freedman also claimed that he received a tip from an anonymous source who alleged that Lively “requested that Taylor Swift delete their text messages,” per the filing.Freedman argued that the source “is highly likely to have reliable information,” which he believes could help the case.In the legal letter, Freedman also claimed that Lively’s lawyer allegedly contacted an attorney at Venable, the firm that represents the “Bad Blood” singer, “and demanded that Ms.

Swift release a statement of support for Ms.Lively,” while also “intimating that if Ms.

Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms.Lively’s possession would be released.”According to Freeman, via the filing, he was told that one of Swift’s representatives “addressed these inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats” in at least one written communication with Gottlieb.“It is those communications that the Wayfarer Parties seek to obtain,” the letter stated, adding that alleged communication could be possible evidence of “an a...