{"id":60564,"date":"2025-09-13T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60564\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:03:08","slug":"taylor-swift-to-sit-for-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60564\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift to sit for Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 12 (UPI) — Taylor Swift<\/a> has agreed to sit for a deposition in the legal battle between actress Blake Lively<\/a> and actor and producer Justin Baldoni, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

Swift has agreed to the request from Baldoni’s legal team but is not available<\/a> until Oct. 20, which falls beyond the Sept. 30 deadline imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis J. Liman.\n<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Baldoni have asked for an extension from<\/a> Oct. 20 to Oct. 25 to depose Swift, who will be unavailable because of “pre-existing professional obligations.”<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old pop icon is releasing her 12th album<\/a> The Life of Showgirl on Oct. 3 and is “unable to do so [attend a deposition]” before the court-imposed deadline at the end of the month.\n<\/p>\n

Liman has yet to rule on the extension request.<\/p>\n

Lively, 38, is suing Baldoni, her co-star in the film<\/a> adaptation of Colleen Hooover’s romantic novel It Ends With Us, for alleged sexual harassment on the movie set. Lively also contends the 41-year-old and his fellow Wayfarer Studios producers launched a smear campaign against her following the accusations.\n<\/p>\n

Baldoni filed a countersuit but the judge dismissed those claims<\/a> this past June.<\/p>\n

Lively has already given a deposition in the case, while Baldoni has yet to be deposed.<\/p>\n

Swift was not involved in the film, although one of her songs was used. She was, however, close friends with Lively and her husband, Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At issue in Swift’s deposition will likely be anything the pair said or wrote about conditions on the film set.<\/p>\n

Baldoni’s legal team at one point tried to subpoena Swift, a move that was not well received by the pop star’s team. The filing was later withdrawn.<\/p>\n

In the most recent court filing, Lively’s legal team told the judge they expect Baldoni’s lawyers to ask for a 30-day extension to the court proceedings, beyond the Sept. 30 deadline.<\/p>\n

“Ms. Lively misleadingly implies the Wayfarer Parties seek a blanket thirty-day extension of the discovery cut-off date,” Baldoni’s lawyer wrote in the filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“In fact, the Wayfarer Parties requested an agreement solely to take the deposition of Taylor Swift during the week of October 20-25.”<\/p>\n

The trial is slated to begin next March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 12 (UPI) — Taylor Swift has agreed to sit for a deposition in the legal battle between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[8150,434,18,117,19,17,36304,2277,973,7,3070],"class_list":{"0":"post-60564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-law-and-crime","15":"tag-ryan-reynolds","16":"tag-taylor-swift","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}