{"id":7801,"date":"2025-09-13T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-didnt-ok-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-deposition\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:35:52","slug":"taylor-swift-didnt-ok-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-didnt-ok-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Didn’t OK Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Lawsuit Deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tUPDATE (Sept. 12)<\/strong>: In an order Friday evening, Judge Lewis J. Liman denied Justin Baldoni\u2019s request to depose Taylor Swift after the current discovery deadline, stating that Baldoni\u2019s team \u201cfailed to demonstrate appropriate diligence\u201d after only recently reaching out to Swift\u2019s camp about scheduling the deposition. This means Baldoni has lost his shot at deposing Swift, foreclosing what could have been an intense court battle over whether the pop star would be forced to sit for questioning.<\/p>\n

\n\tPREVIOUSLY: <\/strong>Taylor Swift\u2018s lawyers say the pop superstar has not agreed to sit for a deposition in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni\u2019s bitter legal feud over the movie It Ends With Us<\/em>, refuting claims from Baldoni\u2019s camp that the star had consented to the sit-down.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaldoni\u2019s attorneys wrote in a request for a discovery schedule extension on Thursday (Sept. 11) that Swift \u201chas agreed to appear for deposition\u201d but cannot do so earlier than Oct. 20 because of \u201cpreexisting professional obligations\u201d \u2014 presumably referring to the rollout of her highly anticipated twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>, which arrives on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Swift\u2019s longtime attorney Douglas Baldridge<\/strong> says in a Friday (Sept. 12) court filing that this is false.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes,\u201d wrote Baldridge.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaldoni has been saying for months that Swift\u2019s friendship with Lively makes her a key witness in the lawsuit, in which Lively alleges Baldoni sexually harassed her on the set of It Ends With Us <\/em>and then orchestrated a retaliatory smear campaign after she complained.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn June, the federal judge overseeing the legal battle granted Baldoni\u2019s request to access Swift and Lively\u2019s text messages as part of the document discovery process. Now, Baldoni wants to depose Swift.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe current discovery schedule has all depositions concluding by the end of September, in anticipation of a March 2026 trial date. But lawyers for Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, asked for an extension on Thursday for the Swift deposition.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s reps have previously slammed Baldoni for \u201ccreating tabloid clickbait\u201d by dragging the star into the case despite her minimal involvement in It Ends With Us.<\/em> Baldridge reiterated this position in his letter to the court on Friday, writing, \u201cSince the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLively\u2019s lawyers have similarly lambasted Baldoni for involving Swift in the litigation, writing in their own Friday court response that the strategy is designed \u201cto generate a media spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Lively team is against extending the discovery cutoff to question Swift, saying it\u2019s Baldoni\u2019s own fault for waiting until this week to contact the singer\u2019s counsel about scheduling her deposition.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Wayfarer defendants\u2019 lack of diligence, and disrespect for Ms. Swift\u2019s privacy and schedule, is astounding,\u201d wrote Lively\u2019s lawyer Michael Gottlieb<\/strong>. \u201cMs. Swift is someone whose calendar should be presumed to be packed with professional obligations for months in advance. At any point over the past six months, the Wayfarer defendants could have noticed a deposition, served a subpoena and negotiated an agreeable time and place for this deposition. But they did not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Lewis J. Liman has not yet ruled on Baldoni\u2019s discovery extension request.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fiery legal battle between Lively and Baldoni has been in full force since last December, when the actress brought sexual harassment and retaliation claims against her It Ends With Us <\/em>co-star and director.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaldoni vehemently denied the allegations and countersued Lively and her inner circle for defamation, though Judge Liman later dismissed Baldoni\u2019s counterclaims as legally invalid. Now, only Lively\u2019s original allegations are headed toward trial this coming spring.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Baldoni team has sought to involve Swift since the early days of the case, writing in court filings that Lively weaponized the \u201cinfluential and wealthy celebrities\u201d in her orbit to gain leverage over him while making It Ends With Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story was updated on Sept. 12 at 2:27 p.m. ET to reflect that Swift has not agreed to a deposition.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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