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ARTICLE VIEW:
Taylor Swift will not be deposed in Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively
case, judge rules
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, Dan Heching, CNN
Updated:
8:32 PM EDT, Fri September 12, 2025
Source: CNN
The judge overseeing has denied a request from Baldoni’s legal team
for an extension to depose Taylor Swift, according to a ruling,
obtained by CNN.
Baldoni’s legal team had requested an extension to the end of
October, in order to be able to depose Swift.
“The only justification they have provided for the extension is their
assertion that Swift’s preexisting professional obligations now
prevent her from appearing for a deposition prior to October 20,
2025,” Judge Lewis Liman wrote in his ruling on Friday evening,
regarding the Baldoni parties.
In his ruling, Judge Liman indicated that Baldoni’s legal team waited
until the eleventh hour to request an extension to depose Swift.
“Discovery has been ongoing in this case for approximately six
months,” the judge wrote. “They have offered no evidence that they
have served a renewed subpoena on Swift… Having failed to demonstrate
appropriate diligence, the requested extension is denied.”
CNN has reached out to Baldoni and Lively’s representatives for
comment on the judge’s ruling.
On Thursday, Baldoni’s attorneys said in a court filing that Swift
had agreed to be deposed in the ongoing civil litigation between “It
Ends With Us” co-stars Lively and Baldoni. But Swift’s attorneys
disputed that she ever agreed to sit for a deposition.
In a letter to the court from Baldoni’s legal team, they wrote that
Swift has agreed to be deposed in the case but was unable to do so
prior to October 20, due to prior professional commitments. (Swift’s
12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is set to be released
on October 3.)
But in a letter to the court in response, dated earlier on Friday and
obtained by CNN, an attorney for Swift said she had not agreed to be
deposed and would only do so if required by the court.
“Since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained
that my client has no material role in this action,” an attorney for
Swift wrote.
“Further, my 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,” Swift’s filing states. “We take no role
in those disputes.”
CNN has reached out to a representative for Swift for further comment.
In a separate court document, also dated Friday and obtained by CNN,
Lively’s attorneys suggested Baldoni’s legal team was seeking media
attention for the case by referencing Swift.
“The Wayfarer Defendants have repeatedly sought to bring Ms. Swift
into this litigation to fuel their relentless media strategy. In this
latest effort, the Wayfarer Defendants assert—though, notably,
without evidence—that Ms. Swift has supposedly ‘agreed’ to sit
for a deposition sometime between October 20-25,” the filing from
Lively’s legal team states. “The Wayfarer Defendants do not appear
to have contacted Ms. Swift’s counsel regarding a date or location
about the deposition until earlier this week. In this respect, the
Wayfarer Defendants’ lack of diligence, and disrespect for Ms.
Swift’s privacy and schedule, is astounding.”
While Baldoni’s suit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds was
dismissed, Lively is still pursuing her claims of sexual harassment and
retaliation against Baldoni.
Swift – a longtime friend of Lively’s – was first mentioned in
connection to the dispute when text exchanges were revealed to include
the name “Taylor” as part of .
One of the text messages appeared to show an exchange between Baldoni
and Lively about the script for a scene in “It Ends With Us”: “I
really love what you did. It really does help a lot. Makes it so much
more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan
and Taylor),” Baldoni wrote with a wink emoji. “You really are a
talent across the board. Really excited and grateful to do this
together.”
Swift received a subpoena in the case in May that was subsequently
withdrawn.
“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,” a
spokesperson for Swift said at the time.
“The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one
song, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ 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,” the spokesperson added.
Trial in the case is set for next spring in federal court in New York.
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