Taylor Swift Has Agreed to Be Deposed in Blake Lively Lawsuit, Justin Baldoni Says

Taylor Swift has agreed to beryllium for a deposition successful Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s bitter ineligible feud implicit the movie It Ends With Us, Baldoni’s campy claims successful caller tribunal filings.

Baldoni has been saying for months that Swift’s relationship with Lively makes her a cardinal witnesser successful the lawsuit, successful which Lively alleges Baldoni sexually harassed her connected the acceptable of It Ends With Us and past orchestrated a retaliatory smear run aft she complained.

In June, the national justice overseeing the ineligible conflict granted Baldoni’s request to entree Swift and Lively’s substance messages arsenic portion of the papers find process. Now, Baldoni wants to depose Swift.

The existent find docket has each depositions concluding by the extremity of September, successful anticipation of a March 2026 proceedings date. But lawyers for Baldoni and his accumulation company, Wayfarer Studios, privation an hold truthful they tin question Swift during the week of Oct. 20 — saying successful a Thursday (Sept. 11) tribunal filing that the popular superstar “has agreed to look for deposition” but cannot bash truthful immoderate earlier due to the fact that of “preexisting nonrecreational obligations.”

Swift is notably successful the midst of rolling retired her highly anticipated twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl, which arrives connected Oct. 3. Swift’s reps person not confirmed whether she has so agreed to look for a deposition, and they antecedently slammed Baldoni for “creating tabloid clickbait” by dragging the prima into the lawsuit contempt her minimal engagement successful It Ends With Us.

Lively’s lawyers person likewise lambasted Baldoni for involving Swift successful the litigation, penning successful a Friday (Sept. 12) tribunal effect that the strategy is designed “to make a media spectacle.”

The Lively squad is against extending the find cutoff to question Swift, saying it’s Baldoni’s ain responsibility for waiting until this week to interaction the singer’s counsel astir scheduling her deposition.

“The Wayfarer defendants’ deficiency of diligence, and disrespect for Ms. Swift’s privateness and schedule, is astounding,” wrote Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb. “Ms. Swift is idiosyncratic whose calendar should beryllium presumed to beryllium packed with nonrecreational obligations for months successful advance. At immoderate constituent implicit the past six months, the Wayfarer defendants could person noticed a deposition, served a subpoena and negotiated an agreeable clip and spot for this deposition. But they did not.”

Judge Lewis J. Liman has not yet ruled connected Baldoni’s find hold request.

The fiery ineligible conflict betwixt Lively and Baldoni has been successful afloat unit since past December, erstwhile the histrion brought intersexual harassment and retaliation claims against her It Ends With Us co-star and director.

Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and countersued Lively and her interior ellipse for defamation, though Judge Liman aboriginal dismissed Baldoni’s counterclaims arsenic legally invalid. Now, lone Lively’s o...