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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively\u2019s legal battle<\/a> has gotten even thornier. In legal documents reviewed by the Cut, Isabela Ferrer \u2014 the actress who played a younger version of Lively\u2019s character in It Ends With Us \u2014 accused Baldoni and his legal team of \u201charassing\u201d her. Baldoni\u2019s team doesn\u2019t see it that way, claiming in filings of their own that they are just trying to receive communication that they believe to be important to their defense in the sexual-harassment<\/a> case Lively filed against Baldoni late last year.<\/p>\n On August 12, Baldoni\u2019s team filed a motion<\/a> requesting that they be allowed to serve Ferrer a subpoena by alternative means after they were unable to reach her through her attorney or via process servers. Baldoni is seeking to subpoena Ferrer for \u201cdocuments that she either neglected to produce or were not requested\u201d when Lively subpoenaed the actress back in February. As part of their submission, Baldoni\u2019s lawyers included affidavits of due diligence from two different process servers but failed to redact either of the addresses they believed to be associated with Ferrer.<\/p>\n In a new motion<\/a> filed on August 17, Ferrer\u2019s lawyer, Sanford Michelman, claims that Baldoni\u2019s\u00a0 attempt to subpoena Ferrer is \u201cyet another attempt by Justin Baldoni and his affiliated entities to harass non-party Isabela Ferrer and draw her deeper into litigation and disputes that she has done her best to avoid.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the filing, Ferrer received \u201cpersonal threats and hateful statements\u201d over social media following the publication of an article in Us Weekly<\/a> about Baldoni\u2019s motion. Examples of said messages<\/a> include one person calling her a \u201cfake-ass crackhead\u201d and another saying that \u201cBlake the snake is gonna ruin your career before it even began.\u201d<\/p>\n All of this can be traced back to February, when Lively\u2019s lawyers subpoenaed Ferrer for any and all communications that might pertain to her harassment suit against Baldoni. As a result, Ferrer\u2019s lawyers invoked an indemnity clause in her It Ends With Us contract, which required Baldoni\u2019s Wayfarer Studios to cover her legal fees. In their latest filing, Ferrer\u2019s team claims that after she invoked the clause, the LLC behind It Ends With Us \u201cdemanded that Ms. Ferrer confirm that she will \u2018surrender control [of her response] to Wayfarer.\u2019\u201d Her lawyers claim this was the Baldoni team seeking \u201cto respond for Ms. Ferrer however they wanted, not actually allowing Ms. Ferrer to provide the documents that reveal the true facts.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferrer was allegedly unwilling to let the company dictate her response to the subpoena, which led to a \u201cprotracted dispute\u201d over Wayfarer\u2019s indemnity obligations, one that was only settled earlier in August. Since the beginning of that dispute, Baldoni has \u201ctried to manipulate, threaten, control, and otherwise act inappropriately towards Ms. Ferrer,\u201d according to Michelman. He even claimed that Baldoni\u2019s team has \u201cgone as far as citing a phony case, which Ms. Ferrer\u2019s counsel discovered as an AI hallucination, to support a frivolous legal position.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferrer\u2019s lawyers claim that Baldoni\u2019s subpoena would not provide anything that was not covered by Lively\u2019s. \u201cBaldoni made no effort to tailor the subpoena towards the production of new or different materials, demonstrating that the real aim of the Baldoni Subpoena, as well as the pending Motion, is to harass Ms. Ferrer,\u201d Michelman wrote. He requested that Judge Lewis J. Liman not only deny Baldoni\u2019s motion, but that he \u201cimpose appropriate sanctions against Baldoni.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, Baldoni\u2019s legal team has a different opinion. Per People<\/a>, Baldoni claimed in a motion filed August 18 that Ferrer\u2019s \u201copposition is primarily an inappropriate attack upon Mr. Baldoni and his counsel relating to matters not before the Court and irrelevant\u201d to whether she should be served a subpoena.<\/p>\n They then floated the idea that Lively \u201cshould not be permitted to obtain discovery from\u201d Ferrer, while Ferrer and her team \u201cfrustrate all effort by the Wayfarer Parties to obtain the discovery critical to the preparation of their defense.\u201d Baldoni\u2019s lawyers also asked the court to consider asking both sides to avoid using \u201cany communication to, from or concerning Ms. Ferrer, or any testimony from her, in any manner in this action\u201d to \u201csatisfy Ms. Ferrer\u2019s apparent desire to avoid involvement in the litigation and trial.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not the first time that Baldoni\u2019s search for text messages has garnered headlines. In June, Judge Liman denied a motion from Lively<\/a>, which would have kept her text messages with Taylor Swift<\/a> out of Baldoni\u2019s grasp. Ultimately, it was determined that the texts specifically pertaining to It Ends With Us were fair game.<\/p>\n Lively and Baldoni are scheduled to head to trial in March 2026.<\/p>\n The Cut has reached out to representatives for Ferrer and Baldoni and will update this post if we hear back.<\/p>\n Stay in touch.<\/p>\n Get the Cut newsletter delivered daily<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n