Blake Lively drags Taylor Swift back into legal controversy just as wedding prep with Travis Kelce intensifies

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Blake Lively has named Taylor Swift as a potential witness in her legal battle. This move comes as Swift prepares for her wedding to Travis Kelce. Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni involves claims of sexual harassment and retaliation. The court filings could bring Swift into the public eye during a private time. Lively seeks significant damages in her case.

Blake Lively takes another blow at Taylor Swift as she prepares for her wedding with Travis Kelce and this time it’s not a rumor, it’s in black-and-white legal filings. Newly unsealed disclosure documents show Lively is officially listing Swift as a potential witness in her escalating sexual harassment and retaliation case against Justin Baldoni, just as Swift is quietly finalizing her next chapter, the one insiders refer to as her “wife era.” The timing feels surgical. While Swift is trying to secure silence, privacy, and control heading into a possible 2026 wedding, Lively’s lawyers are pushing her name into court paperwork that will inevitably generate massive headlines. The optics are harsh: Swift is trying to lock down romance, while Lively is locking down receipts.

Blake Lively’s damages stretch into the hundreds of millions and naming Taylor Swift amplifies the threat

The filings outline Lively’s claim that Baldoni’s alleged misconduct and pre-release smear tactics resulted in catastrophic financial losses.

The numbers aren’t vague. They’re specific, spreadsheet-style and they are enormous.Lively is seeking punitive damages of “not less than three times the amount of Ms. Lively’s actual damages.” And those actual damages are projected to hit roughly $161 million. Once punitive multipliers and legal fees are factored in, the case could climb toward half-a-billion dollars. But the real thunderbolt comes from the witness list.

Lively’s team asserts that Swift, who contributed to the IEWU soundtrack, could have key knowledge regarding “the parties alleged conduct; complaints or discussions about the work environment or conduct on the set of the Film; the production editing, cut, and creative process associated with the Film; publicity surrounding the Film; the retaliation campaign alleged by Ms. Lively and resulting damages suffered.

”And that single paragraph is what’s setting off sirens in pop culture circles. Because even if Swift never appears in court, Lively just ensured Swift is now tethered to this legal war in public consciousness. Right in the middle of her most closely guarded wedding year.