Man Attempting to Help Taylor Swift in Justin Baldoni Case Arrested at Travis Kelce’s Home
Amid Blake Titillating and Justin Baldoni’s upright fight, and the Jane the Virgin alum’s try and salvage Taylor Swift to testify, a man used to be arrested for trespassing outside Travis Kelce’s Kansas house.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are at the center of a police incident.
A 48-one year-frail job server used to be arrested outside of the Kansas City Chiefs broad name's house after allegedly attempting to support Swift with deposition papers in terms of Justin Baldoni and Blake Titillating's upright fight, extra than one outlets file.
In response to a Leawood Police Department offense file bought by E! News, the intruder used to be arrested upright after 2 a.m. on Sept. 15. The actual person, who used to be charged with misdemeanor prison trespassing, used to be later released after posting bond.
In response to Huge name, who used to be first to file the incident, the man is due back in court docket on Oct. 15.
E! News has reached out to reps for Swift, Baldoni and Titillating for commentary.
Sooner than the incident, Swift used to be reported to possess agreed to sit down for a deposition in Titillating and Baldoni's upright case over their 2024 film It Ends With Us, per paperwork bought by Us Weekly Sept. 12.
But in a court docket letter submitted later that day and bought by E! News, a attorney for the singer—whose song “My Tears Ricochet” used to be featured in the film and its trailer—clarified that she “did no longer conform to a deposition” earlier than noting that she would possibly per chance be available between Oct. 20 and Oct. 25 “if she is compelled into a deposition.”
A mediate went on to rule that Swift would indirectly no longer be deposed, per extra than one outlets.
E! News has reached out to Baldoni’s accumulate for commentary but has no longer heard back. Titillating’s accumulate had no commentary.
Meanwhile, Baldoni has expanded his upright team earlier than the case’s March 2026 birth up date. The Jane the Virgin alum employed prison defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro—who previously worked on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense team at some stage in his sex trafficking trial earlier this one year—to indicate him in the continuing dispute, per court docket details bought by Other folks Sept. 18.
E! News reached out to Shapiro, alongside with Baldoni’s accumulate, for commentary at the time but did no longer heard back.
For additional shrimp print on the It Ends With Us upright saga, support reading.
Dec. 20, 2024: Blake Titillating Files CRD Criticism Against Justin Baldoni and His Wayfarer Mates
Four months after the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's e book It Ends With Us debuted in theaters, Blake Titillating filed a California Civil Rights Department (CRD) criticism against her costar Justin Baldoni and his associates on Dec. 20, per The Contemporary York Times.
Within the criticism bought by E! News, Baldoni, his manufacturing firm Wayfarer Studios (Wayfarer), its CEO Jamey Heath, its cofounder Steve Sarowitz, Baldoni's publicist Jennifer Abel, her firm RWA Communications, disaster communications specialist Melissa Nathan, her firm The Company Community PR LLC (TAG), contractor Jed Wallace and his firm Avenue Kinfolk Inc. had been listed as defendants.
Titillating alleged in her criticism that Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates “launched into an advanced press and digital conception in retaliation” for her voicing her concerns about purported misconduct on put—alongside with her announcing she and varied solid and crew individuals “skilled invasive, unwelcome, unprofessional and sexually defective habits” by Baldoni and Heath.
The actress added the alleged campaign against her caused “good harm” to her in my opinion and professionally.
The accusations listed in the criticism consist of sexual harassment; retaliation; failure to analyze, forestall and/or therapy harassment; aiding and abetting harassment and retaliation; breach of contract; intentional infliction of emotional harm; negligence; false mild invasion of privacy and interference with doable economic advantage.
Dec. 21, 2024: The Contemporary York Times Publishes File Regarding the Alleged Smear Advertising campaign Against Titillating
Day after recently to come, The Contemporary York Times published a file about a retaliatory smear campaign Baldoni and his associates allegedly waged against Titillating—citing her CRD criticism. In its article, the outlet quoted messages despatched from Baldoni and his team—including publicist Abel and disaster communications specialist Nathan—that had been section of her criticism. Readers also can scroll thru the court docket paperwork on The Contemporary York Times' web yell.
“I am hoping that my upright motion helps pull back the curtain on these injurious retaliatory ways to harm of us that focus on up about misconduct,” Titillating told the outlet, “and helps provide protection to others who would possibly per chance be focused.”
Dec. 21, 2024: Baldoni and Wayfarer’s Attorney Responds to Titillating’s CRD Criticism
After news of Titillating’s criticism broke, Bryan Freedman—the attorney for Baldoni, Wayfarer and its representatives—slammed Titillating’s allegations.
“It’s low that Ms. Titillating and her representatives would create such extreme and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as but one other determined try and ‘repair’ her detrimental popularity which used to be garnered from her own remarks and actions at some stage in the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that had been seen publicly, in valid time and unedited, which allowed for the gain to generate their very own views and opinions,” he said in an announcement on The Contemporary York Times web yell. “These claims are fully false, fallacious and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly harm and rehash a epic in the media.”
Freedman also defended Wayfarer’s resolution to hire a disaster supervisor, announcing this used to be completed earlier than the advertising campaign of the film.
“The representatives of Wayfarer Studios quiet did nothing proactive nor retaliated, and most efficient responded to incoming media inquiries to be constructive balanced and correct reporting and monitored social task,” he later added. “What is pointedly missing from the cherry-picked correspondence is the evidence that there were no proactive measures taken with media or otherwise; upright interior direct planning and deepest correspondence to strategize which is standard working job with public household professionals.”
Dec. 21, 2024: Baldoni Is Dropped by Talent Company
Talent company William Morris Endeavor (WME) dropped Baldoni after The Contemporary York Times’ article used to be published on Dec. 21, Ari Emanuel, CEO of the company’s father or mother firm Endeavor, confirmed to the outlet.
Alternatively, WME denied that Titillating's husband Ryan Reynolds used to be responsible for the company's parting of ways with Baldoni, which the It Ends With Us director later alleged in his lawsuit filed against The Contemporary York Times (extra on that beneath).
“In Baldoni’s filing there’s a claim that Reynolds compelled Baldoni’s agent at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere. That is no longer valid,” WME—which also represents Reynolds and Titillating—said in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter Jan. 1. “Baldoni’s outmoded advertising consultant used to be no longer at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere nor used to be there any stress from Reynolds or Titillating at any time to drop Baldoni as a consumer.”
Dec. 21, 2024: It Ends With Us Forged Members and Extra Stars React to Titillating’s Allegations Against Baldoni
Within the days following Titillating's CRD filing and The Contemporary York Times article, several famend figures shared their reactions to her allegations against Baldoni—including It Ends With Us creator Hoover.
“@blakelively, you too can were nothing but true, kind, supportive and affected person for the reason that day we met,” she wrote on Instagram Tales Dec. 21, linking out to The Contemporary York Times. “Thanks for being precisely the human that you just’re. On no epic replace. On no epic wilt.”
Jenny Slate, who completed the sister of Baldoni's persona Ryle, also famend she stood with Titillating.
“As Blake Titillating’s castmate and pal, I order my support as she takes motion against those reported to possess deliberate and completed an attack on her popularity,” Slate said in a Dec. 23 assertion to At present. “Blake is a pacesetter, precise pal and a depended on source of emotional support for me and so many who know and esteem her.”
“What has been revealed about the attack on Blake is terribly sunless, stressful, and wholly threatening,” she added. “I commend my pal, I esteem her bravery, and I stand by her facet.”
As effectively as, Brandon Sklenar—a esteem hobby for Titillating's persona Lily Bloom—shared a screenshot of the criticism published to The Contemporary York Times' web yell and linked out to the outlet writing, “For the esteem of God read this.”
Plus, Titillating's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars The US Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn wrote they “stand alongside with her in unity.”
Dec. 23, 2024: Baldoni and Heath's Cohost on The Man Sufficient Podcast Leaves Masks
Liz Plank also announced her departure from The Man Sufficient Podcast, which she cohosted with Baldoni and Heath, on Dec. 23.
“I'm writing to you at the present time to let that I even possess had my representatives inform Wayfarer that I usually are no longer co-web hosting The Man Sufficient podcast,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Thanks for trusting me with your hearts and reports, for holding house for mine, and for making this demonstrate what it used to be. I will miss you, the listeners, so vital. I esteem what this community created collectively with every fiber of my being, and that's because of you.”
While Plank did no longer give a motive for her exit from the podcast, it came days after Titillating's criticism against Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates.
“As this chapter closed for me, I remain committed to the values we've constructed collectively,” the creator endured in her message to her followers. “Thanks for being here, for trusting me, and for being by my facet for the final four years. We all deserve greater, and I know that collectively, we are able to develop it.”
She added, “I will possess extra to fragment soon as I proceed to job every little thing that has took put. Within the duration in-between, I will proceed to support all americans who calls out injustice and holds the folk standing in their come responsible.”
Dec. 24, 2024: Baldoni's Ragged Publicist Sues Him, Abel, Nathan and Wayfarer
Baldoni's outmoded publicist Stephanie Jones and her company Jonesworks LLC filed a lawsuit against him, his firm Wayfarer, his fresh publicist Abel and disaster communications specialist Nathan in Contemporary York Dec. 24.
“Defendants Abel and Nathan secretly conspired for months to publicly and privately attack Jones and Jonesworks, to breach extra than one contracts and induce contractual breaches, and to take purchasers and enterprise possibilities,” the lawsuit bought by NBC Contemporary reads. “At the back of Jones’s back, they secretly coordinated with Baldoni and Wayfarer to enforce an aggressive media smear campaign against Baldoni’s film co-broad name, and then used the disaster as a chance to force a wedge between Jones and Baldoni, and to publicly pin blame for this smear campaign on Jones—when Jones had no knowledge or involvement in it.”
Per Abel's LinkedIn profile, she worked at Jonesworks till final summer. The lawsuit alleges Abel and Nathan “proceed to level the finger falsely at Jones now that their very own misconduct is coming to mild,” and “defame and attack” her in the enterprise.
As for Baldoni and Wayfarer, who usually are no longer any longer Jonesworks purchasers, the suit alleges they “repudiated their contractual duties with Jonesworks and rebuffed Jones’s efforts to resolve this dispute privately in arbitration.”
E! News reached out to the defendants for commentary.
Titillating's attorneys told Fluctuate in a Dec. 23 half that they bought the texts featured in The Contemporary York Times article thru a subpoena to Jonesworks. Freedman—who represents Nathan and Abel as effectively as to Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates—added to the outlet none of his purchasers had been subpoenaed over this topic and that he intended to sue Jones for releasing messages from Abel’s phone to Titillating’s attorneys.
Dec. 31, 2024: Baldoni, Wayfarer & Others Sue The Contemporary York Times
Baldoni, Wayfarer, Heath, Sarowitz, Nathan, TAG, Abel, RWA Communications, Wallace and Avenue Kinfolk filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Contemporary York Times Dec. 31.
Within the suit bought by E!, The Contemporary York Times used to be accused of libel, false mild invasion of privacy, promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract for its article about a retaliatory smear campaign the plaintiffs allegedly conducted against Titillating after she voiced concerns about purported misconduct on put.
Saying the file used to be “false” and in accordance with Titillating’s CRD criticism, the plaintiffs denied the accusations and alleged messages cited in the article and criticism had been taken out of context.
“No topic its claim to possess 'reviewed these alongside with varied paperwork[,]' the Times relied nearly fully on Titillating’s unverified and self-serving epic,” the lawsuit said, “lifting it nearly verbatim whereas pushing apart an abundance of evidence that contradicted her claims and exposed her valid motives.”
They alleged “it used to be Titillating, no longer Plaintiffs, who engaged in a calculated smear campaign.” She denied this.
The Contemporary York Times said it deliberate to “vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”
“The position of an self ample news organization is to expend the info where they lead,” it said to E!. “Our chronicle used to be meticulously and responsibly reported. It used to be in accordance with a evaluation of hundreds of pages of customary paperwork, including the textual yell material messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article.”
Dec. 31, 2024: Titillating Files Lawsuit Against Baldoni and Wayfarer Mates
That identical day, Titillating filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer, Heath, Sarowitz, manufacturing entity It Ends With Us Movie LLC, Nathan, Nathan's firm TAG and Abel in Contemporary York.
In response to the court docket paperwork bought by E! News, she is suing the defendants for sexual harassment; retaliation; failure to analyze, forestall and/or therapy harassment; aiding and abetting harassment and retaliation; breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional harm, negligence infliction of emotional harm and false mild invasion of privacy.
The allegations in the lawsuit had been first detailed in the CRD criticism Titillating filed earlier that month.
As for Titillating's response to the lawsuit Baldoni and his associates filed against The Contemporary York Times—which did no longer list her a defendant—her attorneys famend in an announcement to E! that “nothing in this lawsuit adjustments anything else about the claims” in her CRD and federal complaints.
“This lawsuit is in accordance with the obviously false premise that Ms. Titillating’s administrative criticism against Wayfarer and others used to be a ruse in accordance with a vary 'to no longer file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer,' and that 'litigation used to be no longer at all her closing aim,'” they endured. “As demonstrated by the federal criticism filed by Ms. Titillating earlier at the present time, that body of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is pretend.”
Jan. 2, 2025: Baldoni's Attorney Expresses Intent to Sue Titillating
In Baldoni and his associates' lawsuit against The Contemporary York Times, the plaintiffs expressed that they “need to no longer completed.”
“There are varied immoral actors fervent,” the court docket paperwork said, “and create no mistake—that is maybe no longer the final lawsuit.”
In a Jan. 2 interview with NBC News, Baldoni and Wayfarer's attorney Freedman said they “fully” deliberate to sue Titillating.
Jan. 7, 2025: Baldoni's Attorney Calls Out Deadpool & Wolverine
The headlines about Baldoni and Titillating didn't stop there.
To illustrate, social media customers speculated that her husband Reynolds trolled Baldoni in his film Deadpool & Wolverine thru the persona Nicepool.
Reynolds has no longer publicly commented on the rumors; on the other hand, Baldoni's attorney Freedman shared his response.
“What I create of that is that in case your wife is sexually pressured, you don't create stress-free of Justin Baldoni,” Freedman said at some stage in an interview on The Megyn Kelly Masks posted to YouTube Jan 7. “You don't create stress-free of the direct. You take it very severely. You file HR complaints. You elevate the direct and to boot you apply a upright job. What you don't enact is mock the actual person and switch it into a funny chronicle.”
Meanwhile, Titillating's attorneys said there were extra “attacks” against her since her lawsuit.
“Ms. Titillating’s federal litigation earlier than the Southern District of Contemporary York involves extreme claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, backed by concrete info,” her legal professionals said in a Jan. 7 assertion to E! News. “That is no longer a 'feud' coming up from 'ingenious differences' or a 'he said/she said' direct. As alleged in Ms. Titillating’s criticism, and as we are able to imprint in litigation, Wayfarer and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms. Titillating for simply attempting to provide protection to herself and others on a film put. And their response to the lawsuit has been to birth extra attacks against Ms. Titillating since her filing.”
“While we fight thru the upright job, we scuttle all americans to endure in mind that sexual harassment and retaliation are unlawful in every put of enterprise and in every enterprise,” they added. “A conventional tactic to distract from allegations of this kind of misconduct is to 'blame the sufferer' by suggesting that they invited the habits, introduced it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, or even lied. One more traditional tactic is to reverse the sufferer and culprit, and recommend that the culprit is de facto the sufferer.”
Titillating's legal professionals said “these ideas normalize and trivialize allegations of extreme misconduct.” They also famend “media statements need to no longer a defense” to her claims and that they'll prosecute her claims in court docket.
In response, Baldoni's attorney Freedman told E!, “It’s painfully ironic that Blake Titillating is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when her own team orchestrated this vicious attack by sending the Contemporary York Times grossly edited paperwork old to even filing the criticism.”
“We are releasing all of the evidence which is able to illustrate a sample of bullying and threats to take over the film,” he added. “None of this would possibly occasionally come as a shock because consistent alongside with her previous habits Blake Titillating used varied folk to communicate those threats and bully her come to salvage no topic she essential. We’ve the whole receipts and additional.”
Jan. 16, 2025: Baldoni, Wayfarer, Nathan & Abel File Lawsuit Against Titillating, Reynolds & Others
Baldoni, Heath, Wayfarer, publicist Abel, disaster dialog specialist Nathan and manufacturing entity It Ends With Us Movie LLC filed a lawsuit against Titillating, Reynolds, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane's firm Imaginative and prescient PR in Contemporary York Jan. 16.
In response to the suit bought by E! News, the plaintiffs accused the whole defendants of civil extortion, defamation and false mild invasion of privacy. As for Titillating and Reynolds particularly, she used to be accused of breach of implied covenant of true faith and lovely dealing, and they had been both accused of intentional interference with contractual household and economic advantage as effectively as negligent interference with doable economic advantage.
Within the suit, the plaintiffs denied Titillating's allegations of sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign against her. They also accused her of seizing administration of It Ends With Us and working with Reynolds, Sloane, Jones and others to “tar and feather Plaintiffs in the click” after she obtained backlash for her advertising of the film. (Titillating said in her filings she promoted the film in accordance with Sony's advertising conception.)
Plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit the defendants worked with The Contemporary York Times “to put out a blockbuster news file as devastating as it used to be false.” The outlet stood by its file.
In section of an announcement to E!, Freedman said, “Blake Titillating used to be either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth.”
Jan. 16, 2025: Titillating's Legal professionals Slam Baldoni's “Determined” Lawsuit
Titillating's upright team called his lawsuit “one other chapter in the abuser playbook,” announcing in an announcement to E! News, “That is an age-frail chronicle: A girl speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser makes an try to expose the tables on the sufferer. That is what consultants call DARVO. Inform. Assault. Reverse Victim Culprit.”
She extra accused him of retaliating once she made allegations against him, announcing Baldoni is attempting to shift the epic that Titillating “seized ingenious administration and alienated the solid from Mr. Baldoni.”
“The evidence will demonstrate,” it endured, “that the solid and others had their very own detrimental experiences with Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer. The evidence would possibly even demonstrate that Sony asked Ms. Titillating to oversee Sony’s sever of the film, which they then selected for distribution and used to be a convincing success.”
Her team went on to slam Baldoni's response to her allegations of harassment.
“Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she essential it, it’s her fault. Their justification for why this took put to her: scrutinize what she used to be wearing,” her legal professionals added. “Briefly, whereas the sufferer specializes in the abuse, the abuser specializes in the sufferer. The approach of attacking the woman is determined, it doesn’t refute the evidence in Ms. Titillating’s criticism, and this also can unbiased fail.”
Jan. 21, 2025: At the back of-the-Scenes Pictures of It Ends With Us Launched
Baldoni's upright counsel released in the back of-the-scenes photographs from the filming of It Ends With Us, announcing that the actor's actions in the video “clearly refute Ms. Titillating’s characterization” of him.
“The scene in query used to be designed to illustrate the 2 characters falling in esteem and longing to be shut to 1 one more,” Baldoni's attorneys said in an announcement. “Each and every actors are clearly behaving effectively at some stage in the scope of the scene and with mutual admire and professionalism.”
Alternatively, Titillating's upright team believes the video “corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Titillating described” in her lawsuit and that “every moment of this used to be improvised by Mr. Baldoni with out a dialogue or consent in come.”
“The video shows Ms. Titillating leaning away and repeatedly inquiring for the characters to upright focus on,” they told E! News in an announcement. “Any lady who has been inappropriately touched in the put of enterprise will acknowledge Ms. Titillating’s discomfort.”
Jan. 22, 2025: Titillating and Reynolds Be taught about Gag Say on Baldoni's Attorney
The couple issued a letter to the mediate overseeing their case, asking for that Freedman—the high of Baldoni's counsel—be positioned beneath a gag tell amid their upright court docket cases to “steer certain of snide habits.”
Jan. 27, 2025: Baldoni's 2 AM Articulate Memo to Titillating Published
A seven-minute order memo Baldoni allegedly despatched to Titillating at some stage in It Ends With Us' manufacturing used to be published online. In it, the director regarded to reference the film's rooftop scene Titillating had rewritten and how the adjustments had been equipped to him at some stage in an alleged meeting with Reynolds and their pal Taylor Swift.
“We must all possess associates esteem that excluding for the truth that they're two of primarily the most ingenious folk on this planet,” he told Titillating. “The three of you guys collectively, it's good.”
Within the recording, Baldoni also apparently apologized to the actress for his lukewarm reception to her script, announcing, “I f–ked up. One part it’s good to uncover out about me is that I will admit and tell regret when I fail.”
Jan. 27, 2025: Titillating vs. Baldoni Trial Space
One month after Titillating filed a proper lawsuit against Baldoni, a court docket date used to be put for March 9, 2026.
Jan. 31, 2025: Baldoni Adds The Contemporary York Times to $400 Million Lawsuit
Baldoni’s team amended his Jan. 16 counterclaim to the U.S. District Court against Titillating, Reynolds, Sloane and Sloane's PR firm Imaginative and prescient PR, Inc. to consist of The Contemporary York Times, per paperwork bought by E! News.
Within the amended chronicle, Baldoni accused Titillating and her team of spending months “colluding” and “feeding falsehoods to the Contemporary York Times.”
The filing alleged that the newspaper “cherry picked” and adjusted communications stripped of essential context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”
Feb. 2, 2025: Baldoni’s Personnel Launches a Net put
Baldoni created a web yell with details regarding his lawsuit against Titillating that contained his amended criticism and a “timeline of relevant events.” Among the details in the latter chronicle used to be alleged screenshots of texts exchanged between Titillating, Reynolds and Baldoni.
The online web yell’s birth came one month after Freedman said his team deliberate to release “each textual yell material message between the 2.”
“We desire the truth to be accessible,” Baldoni’s attorney told NBC News in a Jan. 2 interview. “We desire the paperwork to be accessible. We desire folk to create their decision in accordance with receipts.”
Feb. 18, 2025: Titillating Files Her Relish Amended Criticism
Titillating’s attorneys filed an amended criticism claiming that two varied females who worked on It Ends With Us had come forward feeling awful by Baldoni’s habits on put.
“Ms. Titillating used to be no longer on my own in complaining about Mr. Baldoni,” the criticism, bought by E! News, claimed. “The experiences of Ms. Titillating and others had been documented at the time they took place starting in Would possibly per chance per chance well per chance also of 2023. Importantly, and contrary to the whole epic Defendants possess invented, Mr. Baldoni acknowledged the complaints in writing at the time. He knew that females varied than Ms. Titillating also had been awful and had complained about his habits.”
The amended criticism did no longer name the 2 witnesses, whom Titillating said would testify, as a result of “unhealthy climate of threats, harassment, and intimidation fueled by the Defendants’ retaliation campaign.”
In an announcement to E!, Freedman accused the criticism of being stuffed with “unsubstantial hearsay” and alleged that the unidentified persons had been “clearly no longer entertaining to come forward or publicly support her claims.”
Feb. 20, 2025: Titillating and Reynolds' Publicist Asks to Be Dropped From Lawsuit
After Baldoni accused Sloane of propagating “malicious reports” that portrayed him as “a sexual predator” as effectively as orchestrating a “smear campaign” beneath Titillating’s direction, Sloane filed a motional of dismissal from the lawsuit.
Within the paperwork bought by E! News, Sloane’s attorney alleged that there used to be no “basis” for the accusations made against their client and that she used to be simply “dragged” into the lawsuit as a “smoke and mirrors exercise to distract from” Titillating's accusations.
Feb. 28, 2025: Titillating Hires CIA Alum
Titillating introduced onboard CIA's outmoded Deputy Chief of Workers Nick Shapiro to “repeat on the upright communications approach for the continuing sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit occurring in the Southern District of Contemporary York,” a member from her litigation team Willkie Farr & Gallagher told Fluctuate on Feb. 28.
Shapiro—who worked for the CIA from 2013 to 2015 beneath the Obama administration—went on to turn into Visa’s vice president of global security and communications and then Airbnb’s global head of disaster administration. After three years at the condominium firm, he founded his own consulting firm, tenth Avenue Consulting LLC.
Feb. 28, 2025: The Contemporary York Times Files Circulation to Exit the Lawsuit
The Contemporary York Times filed a motion to push apart itself from the $400 million lawsuit that also involves Titillating, Baldoni, Sloane and Sloane's firm in paperwork bought by E! News.
The newspaper argued in the filing that Baldoni’s team used to be telling a “one-sided story that has garnered hundreds of headlines” but that “The Times doesn’t belong in this dispute.”
The Contemporary York Times' attorneys also famend that the $250 million lawsuit Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates had in the origin filed against The Contemporary York Times used to be brushed off after The Contemporary York Times used to be added to the $400 million lawsuit, per court docket paperwork bought by Time restrict.
March 4, 2025: Desire in Baldoni’s $400 Million Lawsuit Pauses Discovery
Following The Contemporary York Times motion for dismissal, U.S. District Desire Lewis J. Liman granted the newspaper's query for take care of of discovery, per paperwork bought by E! News.
The filing, which requested that the mediate like a flash end events from having to alternate details or paperwork, used to be granted as the mediate looked over The Contemporary York Times' Feb. 28 motion.
Liman famend in the March 4 chronicle that the The Contemporary York Times equipped “good grounds” and “a real showing that its motion to push apart is likely to be triumphant on the deserves.”
The mediate added that he didn't mediate Baldoni’s team would possibly per chance be “unfairly prejudiced by a take care of whereas the Court decides the pending motion.”
In an announcement to E! News, a Contemporary York Times spokesperson addressed the replace, writing, “We enjoy the court docket’s resolution at the present time, which acknowledges the crucial First Modification values at stake here. The court docket has stopped Mr. Baldoni from burdening The Times with discovery requests in a case that must no longer at all were introduced against.”
Would possibly per chance per chance well per chance also 2025: Baldoni's Personnel Makes an try to Subpeona Taylor Swift
After Baldoni accused Titillating of the expend of her friendship with Swift as leverage for added ingenious administration over It Ends With Us, with his upright team attempting for to subpeona the singer, a accumulate for the singer fired back.
“Taylor Swift no longer at all put foot on the put of this film,” the spokesperson told E! News in a Would possibly per chance per chance well per chance also 9 assertion. “She used to be no longer obsessed on any casting or ingenious choices, she did no longer get hang of the film, she no longer at all seen an edit or made any notes on the film.”
“The connection Taylor had to this film used to be permitting the expend of 1 song, 'My Tears Ricochet,'” Swift's advertising consultant endured. “Provided that her involvement used to be licensing a song for the film, which 19 varied artists also did, this chronicle subpoena is designed to expend Taylor Swift’s name to draw public hobby by increasing tabloid clickbait as an different of specializing in the info of the case.”
Baldoni's attorneys withdrew their query later that month, per Titillating's upright team.
June 9, 2025: Baldoni's Countersuit Against Titillating & Reynolds Pushed apart
A mediate granted a motion to push apart the countersuit against Titillating, Reynolds, their publicist Sloane, Sloane's firm Imaginative and prescient PR and The Contemporary York Times, announcing that Baldoni and his upright team did no longer imprint their allegations of defamation or civil extortion.
“Indulge in so many others, I've felt the agonize of a retaliatory lawsuit, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us,” Titillating shared on Instagram Tales after the dismissal. “While the suit against me used to be defeated, so many don't possess the sources to fight back.”
She added, “With esteem and gratitude for the a kind of who stood by me. Many of you I know. Many of you I don't. But I will no longer at all stop appreciating or advocating for you.”
Meanwhile, Baldoni's attorney told E! News in an announcement that Titillating's “predictable declaration of victory is pretend.”
“This case is set false accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation and a nonexistent smear campaign,” the attorney said, “which Ms. Titillating’s own team with ease describes as ‘untraceable’ because they are able to not imprint what no longer at all took put.”
July 31, 2025: Blake Titillating Deposed
Titillating sat down for a deposition at her attorneys' Contemporary York put of enterprise. Despite the actual fact that media experiences surfaced claiming that it used to be a “face-to-face showdown” between Titillating and Baldoni, her attorneys later filed a motion slamming the so-called epic that she “essential a colossal contingent of folk alongside with her to testify.”
The true fact, per Titillating's counsel, used to be that Baldoni used to be in the room alongside varied defendants named in her lawsuit as effectively as their respective upright representation.
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