By Elizabeth Wagmeister, Dan Heching, NCS
(NCS) — Taylor Swift will be deposed in the continuing civil litigation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, in accordance to a court docket submitting submitted by Baldoni’s attorneys.
Swift has agreed to be deposed in the case however is unable to accomplish that prior to October 20, due prior skilled commitments, a letter from Baldoni’s legal group, filed with the court docket and obtained Friday by NCS, states.
NCS has reached out to representatives for Swift, Baldoni and Lively for remark.
While Baldoni’s go well with in opposition to Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds was dismissed, Lively remains to be pursuing her claims of sexual harassment and retaliation in opposition to her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star.
Swift – a longtime buddy of Lively’s – was first talked about in connection to the dispute when textual content exchanges had been revealed to embody the title “Taylor” as a part of Baldoni’s since-dismissed countersuit.
One of the textual content messages included in Baldoni’s go well with seems to present an alternate between Baldoni and Lively in regards to the script for the movie: “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 acquired a subpeona in the case in May.
“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 stated on 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 about for subsequent spring in federal court docket in New York.
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