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A YouTuber wrote a fiery letter demanding a protective order against Blake Lively after the Gossip Girl alum attempted to subpoena her as part of her legal battle with Justin Baldoni, Us Weekly can exclusively report.
On Monday, July 28, content creator Lauren Neidigh, who has the username LethalLauren904, slammed the recent subpoenas that Lively, 37, and her legal team fired off to Google and X in an attempt to gain information.
Despite the subpoena against her being dropped, as Us first reported, Neidigh said she felt it was necessary to write the judge.
Neidigh claimed she tried to talk to Lively’s lawyers, but they were “largely unresponsive.” She said they could not explain why her banking information was relevant to the case.
“[Lively’s] Subpoena targeted creators who have expressed unfavorable opinions about her online. The Subpoena was not supported by any evidence. It served to intimidate, harass, chill constitutionally protected free speech, and threaten the safety and privacy of non-parties who are not involved in this litigation,” she said.
She said while Lively dropped the subpoena, the actress left the door open to reissue it in the future.
She said leaving it open-ended imposed, “an undue burden on [her] and [served] to harass and intimidate [her] for her lawful expression of her unfavorable opinions of [Lively] online,” she argued.
Neidigh said due to the “ongoing threat” of Lively making “further abusive discovery requests” for her personal information and private data to “intimidate [her] for her lawful expression,” she requested a protective order prohibiting Lively from issuing any further subpoenas over her information. She also asked for sanctions.
As Us first reported, the subpoenas sought information on several creators’ accounts, including banking information on some of them.
Neidigh, along with creators Kassidy O’Connell and others, opposed the subpoenas. They argued Lively had no authority to obtain their private information.
At the time, a rep for Lively told Us the subpoenas were not “accusations of wrongdoing” and were simply “tools for gathering admissible evidence in federal court.”
The rep added, “There is no silencing of content creators, they are obviously making their views known. This is a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and a number of other Wayfarer defendants and we are simply seeking information to aid in our fact gathering.”
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“Remember [Baldoni’s crisis PR rep’s] own words: to shield Justin Baldoni from the possibility that Blake Lively might publicly reveal he sexually harassed her and others, [Baldoni’s rep] planned an ‘untraceable’ media campaign designed to ‘bury’ Ms. Lively,” the rep continued. “The subpoenas to social media companies are one piece of the puzzle to connect the evidentiary dots of a campaign that was designed to leave no fingerprints.”
A couple of days later, Lively dropped her investigation into Neidigh, O’Connell and a third creator. However, she is still in the process of gathering information on other creators who spoke about her legal battle with Baldoni, 41. She believes Baldoni, who costarred and directed her in the 2024 film It Ends With Us, hired a crisis PR team to smear her in retaliation for her complaining about his onset behavior.
Baldoni denied the accusations. He claimed Lively seized control of the film after production wrapped and iced him out of promotional events. Lively is scheduled to be deposed in the next couple of weeks ahead of the trial scheduled for March 9, 2026.
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