Blake Lively Subpoenas Justin Baldoni’s Phone Records to ‘Expose’ Alleged Smear Campaign

Blake Lively’s lawyers are seeking the phone records of Justin Baldoni and his associates to “expose” the alleged smear campaign they claim the It Ends with Us director launched against her.

Lively, 37, accused Baldoni, 41, and others of sexual harassment and launching an alleged retaliatory public smear campaign in a December complaint. In January, Baldoni responded with a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloan’s PR firm alleging several claims, including civil extortion and defamation. The case, Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al., is scheduled to go to trial on March 9, 2026.

Lively filed subpoenas to “expose the people, tactics, and methods that have worked to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ her reputation and family over the past year,” her lawyers, Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, said in a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday, Feb. 12.

In response to the subpoenas, Freedman told PEOPLE they are an “ordinary part of the litigation process,” but said what Lively’s lawyers are seeking is “extraordinary.”

“They are asking for every single call, text, data log, and even real-time location information for the past 2.5 years, regardless of the sender, recipient, or subject matter,” Freedman’s statement read. “This massive fishing expedition demonstrates that they are desperately seeking any factual basis for their provably false claims. They will find none.”

Subpoenas were sent to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile for phone records belonging to Baldoni, publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis management expert Melissa Nathan to “expose the full web of individuals who were involved in the smear campaign against” Lively, a spokesperson for the actress said. Her spokesperson claims the records could “provide critical and irrefutable evidence not only about who, but also about when, where, and how their retaliation plan came together and operated.”

Subpoenas were also sent to Cloudflare, Inc. and AOL for Internet records to “show the involvement of different persons who might be playing key roles in digital retaliation,” according to the spokesperson.

Jed Wallace also received a subpoena, according to Lively’s spokesperson. In her December civil rights complaint, Lively’s lawyers alleged that Baldoni’s PR team hired Wallace of the crisis-management firm Street Relations, Inc. to assist in the alleged smear campaign. Wallace and his firm filed a $7 million defamation lawsuit against Lively earlier this month.

Lively’s spokesperson said her team are looking “forward to investigating more about Jed Wallace’s entire business model and what else he was doing to distract from the very real sexual harassment and retaliation claims made by Ms. Lively.”

Lively’s lawyers say they will “now receive all of the ‘receipts,'” including messages they say were not included on a website Baldoni’s lawyer, BryanFreedman, launched on Feb. 1. The site was simply titled “Lawsuit Info” and has a link to the amended version of the complaint Baldoni filed against Lively on Jan. 16.