Blake Lively subpoenas Google for journalists’ account information

Actor Blake Lively subpoenaed Google on July 3, 2025, in federal district court in New York, New York, for account information of three journalists who publish content on YouTube.

In December 2024, Lively sued actor Justin Baldoni, his company Wayfarer Studios and various associates for sexual harassment, retaliation and breach of contract. She alleges that the defendants launched a retaliatory publicity campaign during the release of the movie “It Ends With Us,” in which the two actors costarred and which Baldoni directed.

The campaign’s goal, according to the complaint, was to prevent Lively from speaking out about harassment and other misconduct by Baldoni and the CEO of Wayfarer on the set of the film.

In January, Baldoni filed his own claims against Lively, accusing her of extortion and defamation. Those claims were dismissed in June.

In July 2025, Lively demanded that Google produce YouTube and GooglePay account information for Andy Signore of the channel Popcorned Planet, Katie Paulson of Without A Crystal Ball and Kjersti Flaa of FlaawsomeTalk, who identify as journalists and cover entertainment and pop culture.

Lively requested contact and payment information and IP addresses — numeric designations that identify computers’ locations on the internet — used from May 1, 2024, to the present, for 16 content creators in total.

Signore, Paulson and Flaa have extensively covered the legal fight between Lively and Baldoni on their social media channels.

Lively argues that the defendants coordinated with content creators to distribute “negative and derogatory content” about her, and that the content creators whom she targeted through the Google subpoena appeared on a list produced by one of the defendants — a public relations firm that worked with Baldoni.

The list was compiled in response to a request from Lively that the firm identify content creators with whom it had communicated about her.

But on July 26, Lively began to withdraw the Google subpoena as to specific creators, telling the court that after conferring with some of them and reading their public statements and various motions to quash the subpoena, “there is no further information required from the Subpoenas as to these specific Third-Parties at this time.”

The accounts for which the subpoena was withdrawn included Paulson, per an email she posted to Instagram, and Flaa, per a notice she filed with the court.

On July 31, Signore filed a motion to quash the subpoena, arguing that the information sought was irrelevant, and its disclosure might subject him to online harassment.

On Aug. 4, the Google subpoena was withdrawn as to Signore.

Signore has also been subpoenaed directly for communications with the defendants; that subpoena is still pending.

Lively’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment from the Tracker.