Taylor Swift is set to give evidence under oath in the extraordinary court case between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, it can be revealed today.
Newly filed court documents obtained by The Daily Mail show that the popstar has been asked to take part in a deposition after the release of her new album next month.
Earlier this year a judge ruled Mr Baldoni could have text messages between Swift and Lively that pertain to 'It Ends With Us.
Now the singer is set to be deposed in the week beginning October 20 - but only if Justin's legal team can persuade a judge to a deadline extension.
The Gossip Girl actress is suing Baldoni over allegations of sexual harassment and fostering a toxic work environment - accusations he has furiously denied. His counter-suit for civil extortion and defamation has been dismissed.
Ms Swift, who is godmother to one of Blake and Ryan Reynolds' children, has been unwillingly dragged into Lively's ugly legal battle with actor and director Baldoni.
A source recently told the Daily Mail that newly-engaged Swift had been ghosting Lively's repeat attempts to 'reach out' with texts, voicemails and emails.
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively are said to have fallen out over the Justin Baldoni case with Taylor expected to be deposed next month if Justin can get permission from a judge
Justin Baldoni has texts between the former friends but wants the chance to question Swift
Taylor Swift's announcement of her engagement to Travis Kelce on Tuesday was met with a torrent of public well wishes from her A-list friends - but there was no public acknowledgement from Blake.
And now Justin Baldoni's legal team has claimed that Taylor has been asked to a deposition being scheduled for just over a month's time.
As a result they opposed a motion setting a deadline on when they can gather evidence.
'Ms. Lively misleadingly implies the Wayfarer Parties seek a blanket thirty-day extension of the discovery cut-off date', Baldoni's lawyer Ellyn S. Garofalo wrote to judge Lewis J. Liman.
'In fact, the Wayfarer Parties requested an agreement solely to take the deposition of Taylor Swift during the week of October 20-25 due to Ms. Swift's preexisting professional obligations.'
The pair saw their decade-long friendship spectacularly collapse earlier this year.
Last month an insider reveals that Lively, 38, has finally accepted that the relationship is over - at least for a while.
Back in June, a source told the Daily Mail that Swift had been ghosting Lively's repeat attempts to 'reach out' with 'texts, voicemails and even emails begging to mend what they once had'.
Now, Lively has given up trying.
'Blake didn't reach out [following the engagement announcement] and isn't going to,' an inside source told the Mail, adding: 'This isn't the time.'
'What would be the point of reaching out now?' the source said. 'It really makes no sense. [Lively] has bigger fish to fry.'
But one person was notably absent. Blake Lively, Swift's one-time BBF and to whose daughters Swift is godmother
Brutally, the actress apparently now 'doesn't talk about Taylor at all' and doesn't find it helpful to think about what could have been.
'This is something that we would've talked about in the past, like what was going to happen, if she was going to be in the wedding, what that would look like. All of that. But now, it’s just silence,' the source said. 'There’s no ‘will she or won’t she’ about Blake being in the wedding, because she just won’t. She knows that, and I don’t think she particularly wants to talk about that.'
It came days after it emerged Mr Baldoni is facing further scrutiny as another individual has come forward with claims of harassment.
In a sworn declaration, filed by Blake Lively's lawyer earlier this week, the individual, whose name has been redacted, alleged they endured 'repeated, negative interactions with Mr. Baldoni and his associates, including verbal abuse by Mr. Baldoni.'
The unnamed person further claimed that Baldoni was 'not permitted on set during the majority of production as a result of those experiences.'
The individual also said they requested that Baldoni 'not be involved in marketing or public relations efforts.'
A source told TMZ that the individual is 'likely to testify against Justin in Lively's trial.'
Although the declaration does not concern It Ends with Us, the accuser stated they previously collaborated with Baldoni on a different project connected to his company, Wayfarer Studios.
The filing also references Baldoni's business partner, Wayfarer co-founder Steve Sarowitz, noting that the accuser had been contacted by Sarowitz's assistant to arrange a meeting though no specific topic for the discussion was identified.
The documents, filed September 4, 2025, were submitted under penalty of perjury.
The Daily Mail has reached out for comment from Baldoni's representatives but have not heard back at this time.
The fresh allegations surfaced just as Lively filed a sweeping new motion seeking attorney's fees, treble damages, and punitive damages against Baldoni's company Wayfarer Studios and its executives.
In the 30-page filing in federal court, Lively's lawyers argue that Wayfarer's defamation lawsuit against her was 'baseless from the start' and amounted to a retaliatory attack after she reported harassment and retaliation.
The motion accuses the company of attempting to 'damage her credibility and conceal their own unlawful acts' by flooding the public docket with redacted exhibits and character attacks.
Lively's team argues the conduct fits squarely into what California Civil Code Section 47.1 was designed to prevent -- retaliatory lawsuits against those who come forward with harassment complaints.
Under that statute, Lively is asking the court to impose severe penalties, including treble damages and punitive damages, and to recognize her as the 'prevailing defendant' entitled to recover legal fees.
The motion also cites alleged threats made by Sarowitz, who was described as vowing to spend $100 million to ruin the lives of Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
According to the filing, Sarowitz allegedly declared at one point: 'I will protect the studio like Israel protected itself from Hamas. There were 39,000 dead bodies. There will be two dead bodies when I'm done. Minimum. Not dead, but 'you're dead to me.' So that kind of dead. But dead to a lot of people'
Baldoni and Lively has been embroiled in a legal battle for months.
In December 2024, the actress sued Justin for allegedly sexually harassing her on set -- claims he denied - before he and Wayfarer Studios fired back with a defamation suit against Blake, her publicist Leslie Sloane and husband Ryan Reynolds.
Justin also waged war with The New York Times, filing a $250million lawsuit against the publication over its bombshell tell-all on Lively’s sexual harassment claims against her former co-star on December 31, 2024.
The New York Times denied the allegations.
On June 9, however, it was learned that a judge dismissed Baldoni’s lawsuit in a major setback for the actor’s hopes for a blockbuster win over the millionaire actress.
Judge Lewis J Liman dismissed Baldoni’s suit alleging defamation and extortion on the basis that all Lively’s allegations were made within privileged court papers.
The judge said in the order obtained by DailyMail.com: ‘The Wayfarer Parties have not alleged that Lively is responsible for any statements other than the statements in her CRD complaint, which are privileged.’
The judge ruled: ‘The Times reviewed the available evidence and reported, perhaps in a dramatized manner, what it believed to have happened. The Times had no obvious motive to favor Lively’s version of events.’
He dismissed the lawsuit against The New York Times as well.