Blake Lively sent subpoenas to cell carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon as she looks for more ‘receipts’ amid her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

The It Ends With Us star, 37, is seeking proof that Baldoni — who directed and co-starred with her in the romantic drama — orchestrated a smear campaign against her.

Her lawyers also sent subpoenas to two internet providers, Cloudflare and AOL, as well as to Jed Wallace, a crisis consultant accused of launching a ‘digital army’ against the actress on Baldoni’s behalf. 

Wallace has denied the allegations and filed a $7 million defamation suit against Lively. 

‘Ms. Lively has initiated discovery that will expose the people, tactics, and methods that have worked to “destroy” and “bury” her reputation and family over the past year,’ her attorneys, Esra Hudson and Michael Gottlieb, shared with Deadline on Wednesday.

‘We will now receive all of the “receipts” that, unsurprisingly, are nowhere to be found on Mr. Freedman’s website, and like Ms. Lively, those “receipts” will have their day in court,’ they added, in reference to Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, and the website thelawsuitinfo.com, outlining Baldoni’s version of events.

Blake Lively, 37, sent subpoenas to cell carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon as she looks for more ‘receipts’ amid her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni

The It Ends With Us star, 37, is seeking proof that Baldoni — who directed and co-starred with her in the romantic drama — orchestrated a smear campaign against her

Speaking of well-known PR guru, Jed, Lively’s spokesperson stated, ‘We look 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.

‘We are delighted to be able to start discovery on it,’ the spokesperson added.

Her rep also noted that Wallace’s involvement was detailed in messages the team had already obtained, where Baldoni’s team allegedly gloated about how easily the public was swayed to dislike her. 

In December 2024, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and launching a smear campaign against her.

The New York Times published text messages Lively cited as evidence. Baldoni responded by claiming the published messages were incomplete and released what he alleged were the full exchanges in a lawsuit against the NYT in early January.

Further messages were included in a subsequent lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds.

Earlier this month, the filmmaker published a website that his legal team alleged had all of the ‘receipts’ for his and Lively’s court battle.

Lively alleges that Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios hired Crisis PR chief Melissa Nathan to discredit any accusations she might make about his behavior on the set of It Ends With Us. 

‘Ms. Lively has initiated discovery that will expose the people, tactics, and methods that have worked to “destroy” and “bury” her reputation and family over the past year,’ her attorneys shared with Deadline on Wednesday

‘We will now receive all of the “receipts” that, unsurprisingly, are nowhere to be found on Mr. Freedman’s website, and like Ms. Lively, those “receipts” will have their day in court,’ they added, in reference to Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, and their website

The referenced website (pictured above) contains legal documents that share Baldoni’s side of the story

Her TAG firm allegedly then employed Wallace to run an online smear campaign against Lively, damaging her reputation and the launch of her new product line. 

Nathan and publicist Jennifer Abel acknowledged planning a strategy for their client, but claim they never implemented it because public opinion turned against Lively organically.

The texts included in Lively’s original complaint appear to show the moment-to-moment breakdown of how Baldoni and his PR team discussed her.

His publicity team, according to a strategy document for Baldoni that Lively filed with her complaint, identified ‘several potential scenarios at play here which we should be prepared for, should [Lively] and her team make her grievances public’.

Many of the text messages are between the women, including one exchange in which Nathan states that she can ‘bury anyone’. The message was sent in reply to Abel’s text which says that Baldoni, ‘wants to feel like she [Lively] can be buried’.

‘Of course – but you know when we send over documents we can’t send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble,’ Nathan responds, adding, ‘We can’t write we will destroy her’.

She followed up the message with another which reads, ‘Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands.’

‘You know we can bury anyone but I can’t write that to him. I will be very tough.’

Her lawyers also sent subpoenas to two internet providers, Cloudflare and AOL, as well as to Jed Wallace, a crisis consultant accused of helping Baldoni create a smear campaign against her. Wallace has denied the allegations and filed a $7 million defamation suit against Lively

In her complaint filed with the California Civil Rights Department on December 20, Lively named Wallace and his company Street Relations as a defendant 

Her filing described Wallace as an independent public relations contractor who allegedly ‘weaponized a digital army’ to create and promote negative content about her 

Meanwhile, Baldoni appeared to have suggested that it would be beneficial if they could orchestrate a targeted social media campaign.

He sent a message showing a screenshot of a Twitter thread about allegations of bullying against Hailey Bieber with the caption: ‘This is what we would need’.

Baldoni — who served as director and starred as Ryle Kincaid, the partner of Lively’s character Lily Bloom in It Ends With Us — has refuted the claims of orchestrating a smear campaign through his lawyer.

‘It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film,’ he said.

‘Interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.’

At the beginning of the month Baldoni launched his own website dedicated to defending himself against Lively’s sexual harassment allegations.

In an attempt to share his side of the story, the actor, who is seeking to offer transparency to the public amid his legal battle, shared a website containing his amended complaint and a timeline of relevant events related to the case.

The decision to publish the site on Saturday comes after the star amended his $400 million suit accusing Lively of giving The New York Times advance access to her sexual harassment complaint.

His attorney told DailyMail.com that Baldoni’s amended his lawsuit due ‘to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light.’

‘This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to purely egotistical reasons Ms. Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications,’ Freedman continued.

He concluded: ‘The ongoing public interest in this case online has ironically shed light on the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and how heavily Ms. Lively and her representatives were not only deeply involved in the attempted take down and smear campaign of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it.’

Baldoni, Lively, and Reynolds are scheduled to go to trial in New York on March 29, 2026.