Salma Hayek kept a low-profile as she stepped out in NYC on Friday shortly after gushing over her close bond with Blake Lively.
The Frida actress, 58, grabbed dinner with the Gossip Girl alum, 37, earlier this week on Tuesday amid Lively’s shock fall out with BFF Taylor Swift.
Last week, the Grammy winner was subpoenaed over the actress’s lawsuit with Justin Baldoni – and it was later alleged that Blake threatened to release private messages from the performer unless she sided with her.
Just days after Hayek was spotted hanging out with Lively, the star gave insight into their ‘close’ friendship while attending the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party.
Salma put on a stylish display during her latest solo outing while donning a pair of black trousers as well as a black leather vest.
She additionally opted for a white blouse underneath and layered the look with a chic black blazer.
Salma Hayek, 58, kept a low-profile as she stepped out in NYC on Friday shortly after gushing over her close bond with Blake Lively
The Frida actress grabbed dinner with the Gossip Girl alum, 37, earlier this week on Tuesday (seen above) amid Lively’s shock fall out with BFF Taylor Swift
The From Dusk Till Dawn actress carried a large white purse and allowed her dark locks to flow down in light waves past her shoulders.
For a finishing touch, Hayek accessorized the ensemble with a pair of silver earrings and fashionable black shades.
Earlier in the week, the beauty was seen strolling side-by-side with Blake as well as her sister Robyn as they grabbed a bite to eat at RH Rooftop Restaurant in the Big Apple.
The trio flashed cheerful smiles as they held a lighthearted conversation before entering the eatery.
Salma sported a denim dress as well as a pair of tan-heeled boots and a colorful scarf that was wrapped around her neck.
Two days later, the actress turned heads while making an appearance at the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party in NYC.
While walking the red carpet, the star opened up about her friendship with Lively – whom she previously worked with on the 2012 crime thriller Savages.
Hayek explained to E! News that she has known both Blake and husband Ryan Reynolds for ‘a very long time’ and is also ‘close’ to their four children.
Salma put on a stylish display during her latest solo outing while donning a pair of black trousers as well as a black leather vest
She additionally opted for a white blouse underneath and layered the look with a chic black blazer
For a finishing touch, Hayek accessorized the ensemble with a pair of silver earrings and fashionable black shades
Earlier in the week, the beauty was seen strolling side-by-side with Blake as well as her sister Robyn as they grabbed a bite to eat at RH Rooftop Restaurant in the Big Apple
Two days later, the actress turned heads while making an appearance at the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party in NYC (seen above)
‘I got a chance to go play with them. They got to see the tía Salma,’ she told the outlet, and revealed that the kids can also ‘speak some Spanish.’
Along with working with Lively, Salma has starred alongside Reynolds in The Hitman’s Bodyguard and its sequel.
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Back in 2017, Hayek also shared kind words to Blake during her speech at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon.
‘I still have never met anybody that, at such an early stage in their life, had such a sense of self, so much courage.’
She continued, ‘I saw her take on one of the biggest bullies in this industry that everybody feared.
‘She has a great sense of family. She has a great sense of honorability, fantastic values. She has a great sense of fashion, sense of humor. She is the ultimate mother – even to me.’
Lively’s 10-year friendship with Taylor Swift has come to a halt after the singer was subpoenaed in the actress’s publicized legal drama with It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni.
An insider told DailyMail.com this week that the performer has distanced herself away from Blake due to feeling like she had been ‘exploited.’
‘I still have never met anybody that, at such an early stage in their life, had such a sense of self, so much courage,’ Hayek said of Blake back in 2017; the pair seen in 2012 in Venice
An insider told DailyMail.com this week that Taylor has distanced herself away from Blake due to feeling like she had been ‘exploited’; seen in 2024 in Las Vegas
Gigi Hadid – who is known for being close pals with both Taylor and Blake – has also opted to distance herself from the lawsuit.
A source recently told Us Weekly, ‘Gigi has always had a closer friendship with Taylor and stands by her. She has been a very loyal friend to Taylor, and they have been best friends for a decade now.’
However, the insider explained that the model ‘hasn’t necessarily chosen sides’ while adding that Blake and Gigi ‘really haven’t been as close in almost a year.’
‘As Taylor has started to distance herself from Blake, Gigi has done the same. The shift wasn’t abrupt, but gradual and organic change in dynamics.’
The source continued, ‘They haven’t been in touch much this year and it does have everything to do with the lawsuit.’
Last week, the Bad Blood songstress was officially subpoenaed in Lively’s lawsuit when she was sent a legal notice by Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman as a witness.
Swift’s team slammed the subpoena as they argued that she was not very involved in the drama on set of 2024 film It Ends With Us.
A rep for Taylor gave a blistering response to DailyMail.com which read: ‘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.’
Gigi Hadid – who is known for being close pals with both Taylor and Blake – has also opted to distance herself from the lawsuit
A rep for Taylor gave a blistering response to DailyMail.com which read: ‘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…’; seen in 2024 in Vancouver
The rep noted that the only involvement Taylor had in the film was the use of one of her tracks titled My Tears Ricochet which was off of her 2020 album Folklore.
The statement concluded: ‘Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.’
Blake later shared her response to Swift being subpoenaed.
Her own legal team slammed Baldoni’s lawyers for issuing the subpoena to the Grammy winner and also clapped back at the suggestion that tickets be sold to Lively’s deposition, per People.
But the latest twist that Blake allegedly threatened to leak Taylor’s text messages sheds further light on the collapse of their once-close friendship, which has gone cold amid the actress’s high-stakes lawsuit.
Since then, both Swift and Lively have been subpoenaed for communications about the case, despite the superstar’s attempts to distance herself from the furor.
In the letter to the judge obtained by DailyMail.com, Baldoni’s legal team, led by Bryan Freedman, hit back at Lively’s ‘wrong’ claims that the proposed subpoena to Swift ‘seeks irrelevant documents.’
Freedman argued that it aims to obtain information ‘relating to witness tampering and evidence spoliation,’ specifically that Lively had attempted ‘coerce’ Swift into publicly siding with her.
According to the letter, Baldoni’s attorneys received information that ‘(i) Ms. Lively requested that Taylor Swift delete their text messages’ – which, according to inside sources, may have contained details from over a decade of friendship, relationships, and private confidences.
In the letter to the judge obtained by DailyMail.com, Baldoni’s legal team, led by Bryan Freedman, hit back at Lively’s ‘wrong’ claims that the proposed subpoena to Swift ‘seeks irrelevant documents’; seen in 2023 in L.A.
Attention has also turned to who else could be subpoenaed in the case, with Reynolds odds-on to have his communications scrutinized by Baldoni’s team; Ryan seen in April in NYC
It also claims Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb had contacted Swift’s attorney and demanded ‘that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released.’
In response, Swift’s reps purportedly addressed Lively’s ‘inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats in at least one written communication’ sent to Gottlieb, according to Freedman.
‘It is those communications that [Baldoni’s team] seeks to obtain by way of subpoena, as they would evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in this litigation’, the letter states.
Explosives text messages from Baldoni’s complaint revealed Lively had referred to the superstar singer and her husband, as ‘my dragons’ in a bid to intimidate him over ill-fated flick It Ends With Us.
Attention has also turned to who else could be subpoenaed in the case, with Reynolds odds-on to have his communications scrutinized by Baldoni’s team.
Swift is reportedly furious over being dragged into the case and has not been photographed with Lively for months.
Her boyfriend Travis Kelce unfollowed Ryan Reynolds in yet another sign that relations between the two couples have cooled.
It is understood that Swift has been ‘completely floored’ by the legal escalation and is now ‘very upset.’
But things soured in December when Lively sued Baldoni, her costar and director in the It Ends With Us movie adaptation of the popular Colleen Hoover novel
But things soured in December when Lively sued Baldoni, her costar and director in the It Ends With Us movie adaptation of the popular Colleen Hoover novel.
The following month, when Baldoni filed a countersuit accusing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds of defamation, Swift was dragged into the mix.
Contained in Baldoni’s filing were screenshots of text messages and emails that named Swift. Baldoni also claimed that Swift was present at a pivotal meeting about the movie, held by Lively and Reynolds at their New York penthouse.
For her part, a source close to Swift has said she simply arrived to find the meeting underway and had no involvement.