Source who leaked Blake Lively's alleged threat to expose Taylor Swift private texts revealed

Scott Swift, father of global pop icon Taylor Swift, has been identified as the individual who informed Justin Baldoni's legal team that actress Blake Lively allegedly threatened to leak private text messages unless Taylor ed her publicly in a high-profile legal feud.

The revelation surfaced through a report by the Daily Mail, which stated that Scott voluntarily provided the information to Baldoni's team. The move reportedly aimed to shield his daughter from deeper legal entanglement in the ongoing lawsuit between Baldoni and Lively, stemming from their work on the movie It Ends With Us.

"Scott Swift did not want his daughter to be dragged into this any further and he voluntarily gave up this information as part of a deal that would include [Baldoni's team] withdrawing their subpoena for Taylor," an unnamed source told Daily Mail.

The insider's aligns with earlier legal filings made by Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, who disclosed that Blake Lively's attorney, Michael Gottlieb, allegedly approached Taylor Swift's legal firm, Venable, with a demand.

Gottlieb was accused of insisting that Swift issue a public show of for Lively, or face the release of private text messages believed to be in Lively's possession. The legal filing also claimed that Lively urged Swift to delete their text exchanges.

Gottlieb responded to the accusations by firmly denying them in a statement to Page Six, calling the claims "cowardly" and "completely untethered from reality."

Subpoena dropped after alleged insider intervention

Though Freedman initially did not name his source, he stated in a sworn affidavit that he had spent an hour on the phone with a "person very closely linked" to Taylor Swift.

According to Daily Mail, that person was Scott Swift. The report also claimed that the details Scott shared were pivotal in prompting Baldoni's legal team to drop the subpoena against the singer.

A source told Daily Mail that it appeared Lively's legal team had attempted to pressure Taylor into taking a side by threatening to reveal sensitive personal information.

"It seemed Lively's team tried to extort Taylor by threatening to release private information about her so that she would a narrative that she was not a part of," the insider said.

The decision to withdraw the subpoena comes after a judge ruled that the allegations about the threats were inissible in court, describing them as "improper" and "irrelevant" to the case.

Despite that ruling, the documents filed by Freedman had already made waves, as he accused Lively of using her influence - with from Swift and Ryan Reynolds - to steer creative decisions on It Ends With Us and manipulate Baldoni's role in the production.

Freedman's complaint described the situation as one in which Baldoni "was not just dealing with Lively. He was also facing Lively's 'dragons,' two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him."

Swift's camp has denied all involvement in the film or its creative process. Her representative previously told Page Six, "Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history."

Meanwhile, in a gesture of loyalty, Swift's boyfriend Travis Kelce unfollowed Ryan Reynolds - Blake Lively's husband - on Instagram amid the controversy. Reps for all parties involved have declined to comment further.

Although Taylor Swift has been cleared of any formal involvement, her father's decision to come forward highlights the deepening rift between once-close friends and the high stakes at play in a Hollywood dispute that continues to evolve.