Breaking News: Blake Lively’s Lawyers Fight Back Against Taylor Swift Blackmail Accusation: ‘Unequivocally and Demonstrably False’…see more

According to Freedman’s letter, filed with the court and Judge Lewis J. Liman on Wednesday, “Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr, counsel for the Lively Defendants, contacted a Venable attorney who represents Ms.

Swift and demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.”

Freedman’s accusation is impossible to independently verify since it is solely based on information from an unnamed “source who is highly likely to have reliable information.” No other sources in support of the claim were provided in Freedman’s filing.

In a statement shared with Variety, Gottlieb slammed the accusation as “categorically false” and “cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality.”

“This is what we have come to expect from the Wayfarer parties’ lawyers, who appear to love nothing more than shooting first, without any evidence, and with no care for the people they are harming in the process,” Gottlieb said.

“We will imminently file motions with the court to hold these attorneys accountable for their misconduct here.”