{"id":20400,"date":"2025-09-13T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20400\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:24:03","slug":"perez-hilton-speaks-out-after-blake-lively-drops-her-subpoena-against-him-amid-legal-battle-with-justin-baldoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20400\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez Hilton Speaks Out After Blake Lively Drops Her Subpoena Against Him Amid Legal Battle With Justin Baldoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

The legal battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively<\/a> is still ongoing, and as it continues, other people are being pulled into and out of it. This includes Perez Hilton. This summer, he\u2019s been fighting a subpoena that the Gossip Girl<\/a> star\u2019s team issued. Now, it\u2019s been dropped, and he\u2019s spoken out about it.<\/p>\n

Perez Hilton has been clear in his opposition to this subpoena, and now, it\u2019s been dropped. According to court documents obtained by Page Six<\/a>, Lively put in the request not long after the ACLU of Nevada started representing Hilton. Reacting to this choice, the writer said:<\/p>\n

I am certain with every fiber of my being that if the ACLU of Nevada had not agreed to represent me and had they not called her lawyers yesterday to inform them of that, Blake would absolutely still be pursuing the subpoena! They withdrew today \u2014 after yesterday\u2019s call.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Back in July, Hilton was subpoenaed, and in August, around the one-year anniversary of It Ends With Us theatrical release<\/a>, a judge issued a ruling about letters he had filed that stopped him from using \u201cdisrespectful\u201d and \u201cintemperate\u201d language, among other things, in his filings. The blogger said he\u2019d follow the order, and for a long time, he was representing himself.<\/p>\n

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This all happened because Lively alleged that Hilton and Justin Baldoni colluded to work on a smear campaign against her. Hilton explained in an interview with Page Six before the hearing that \u201cnobody told [him] to write anything negative about her,\u201d and that \u201cnobody paid\u201d him to do it. He also criticized the subpoena overall, saying:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not being sued, I did nothing wrong, and the subpoena is burdensome, it is too broad, and it is seeking my journalistic sources and work product, which is all privileged, protected information. <\/p>\n

Now, this subpoena has been dropped. However, the legal battle between Lively and Baldoni is nowhere near over, with a trial set in March of 2026.<\/p>\n

Hilton, notably, isn\u2019t the only big name involved in this ongoing situation. Megyn Kelly didn\u2019t hold back<\/a> as she spoke about the actress attempting to subpoena her. Meanwhile, the actress who played the young version of Livley\u2019s character in It Ends With Us, Isabela Ferrer, was subpoenaed<\/a> by both legal teams involved with this case.<\/p>\n

On top of all that, there\u2019s also been a bunch of back and forth about whether Taylor Swift will be involved<\/a>, and how she reportedly feels about it. The latest reports, via the BBC<\/a>, state that she did not agree to be deposed.<\/p>\n

Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News<\/p>\n

As this situation continues, we\u2019ll keep you updated on who gets looped into this legal situation. It\u2019s worth noting that Baldoni\u2019s lawsuits were dismissed<\/a> earlier this summer, and the director and Lively have a court date set, as I mentioned, for early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legal battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively is still ongoing, and as it continues, other people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-20400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}