Blake Lively has withdrawn the Perez Hilton subpoena in a lawsuit against Justin Bardoni.
Court documents obtained on page 6 show that Hilton (who represented himself in this matter) filed a lively request on Friday shortly after he held it to represent the Nevada ACLU.
Hilton told us according to the decision. “If Nevada ACLU didn’t agree to represent me, if I hadn’t called her lawyer yesterday, then Blake would still be pursuing a subpoena!
Lively representatives did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Hilton, who founded a gossip website for celebrities of the same name in 2004, was summoned to Lively in July.
The 38-year-old actress, co-star in “It’s End with Us” and claimed she conspired with director Bardoni (who she advocates for sexual harassment and retaliation).
“No one told me to write something negative to me. No one paid me to write something negative to me. No one gave me any point of talking to me,” the 47-year-old said ahead of his first hearing that he felt “fatigue,” “relief,” “cautious optimism,” and “skilled optimism.”
“It really feels like a real life David vs. Goliath case. David is Justin Bardoni, and in this example, me and Goliath are Blake’s vibrant, her A-list, very powerful and very well-known, very wealthy husband (Ryan Reynolds), who use their power and money to oppose Justin Bardoni and return my opposition to me.
He said he was “not sued,” calling the subpoena “burdened” and “too broad,” claiming that he threatened his “journalistic sources and working products” and his “privileged and protected information,” and that he “had nothing wrong.”
After filing the allegations he cried out, Lively filed a cross-motion to force him, claiming that Hilton “does not hold himself back as an independent journalist, and that he does not intend to follow any of the doctrines of independent journalism.”
But according to Hilton, “it’s wrong” because digital journalists “have the same rights to grant protection and privileges as traditional journalists.”
He said, “It’s a misrepresentation of the law and I believe that’s what I’m going to argue in court.”
Of the negatives he shares about the “Gossip Girl” star, Hilton said:
“And they can’t accept that — “people may not like me because of what I said or what I filed in court” — that inability to do so led us to this point now. ”
Regarding Bardoni, 41, he denied the live claim. He rebutted her and Reynolds for his honor and fear, but his lawsuit was thrown out about what Hilton described as “technical.”
Vibrant and Bardoni are expected to testify in March 2026 when her case was attempted.
