Justin Baldoni’s lawyer could subpoena Taylor Swift in Blake Lively legal feud

Justin Baldoni could resistance Taylor Swift adjacent further into his conflict with her bestie Blake Lively, with his lawyer saying they whitethorn take to subpoena the popstar to springiness a deposition.

“I don’t cognize that we’re going to depose Taylor Swift oregon not. I deliberation that’s astir apt going to beryllium a game-time decision,” lawyer Bryan Freedman told TMZ connected Wednesday’s occurrence of the “Two Angry Men” podcast. “I tin archer you this: Anybody that reasonably has accusation that tin supply grounds successful this lawsuit is going to beryllium deposed.”

The ineligible play started erstwhile Lively sued Baldoni successful December, accusing him of intersexual harassment connected the acceptable of “It Ends With Us,” followed by a smear run meant to destruct her reputation.

Swift was archetypal brought into the messiness connected Jan. 16 erstwhile Baldoni filed a antagonistic suit against Lively, her hubby Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane. Among the allegations, including defamation and civilian extortion, Baldoni claims Lively leveraged her celebrity “dragons” to unit him into making changes to the movie helium directed.

While Swift herself is not being sued, Baldoni cites the singer’s attendance astatine a contentious gathering implicit rewrites to the script. He claims Lively enlisted Swift and her superstar powerfulness arsenic a means to nonstop a connection that helium “needed to comply” with Lively’s demands.

Freedman says that fixed Swift was “there for that meeting,” it’s precise imaginable they could telephone her to beryllium deposed.

But according to TMZ ineligible analysts Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos, it’s improbable Lively and Reynolds would privation to impact their A-list pal successful the highly nationalist ineligible proceedings. The menace of Swift being deposed could beryllium utilized arsenic a bargaining spot to unit a colony successful the lawsuit before going to proceedings adjacent year, the analysts contend.

“I deliberation they are going to bash everything they tin to debar going to court,” Levin said Wednesday. “The past happening they privation is to person their friend, the biggest prima successful the satellite now, sitting connected a basal being grilled by Bryan Freedman.”

“We’ll spot if they tin effort to debar a deposition,” Freedman replied.

How Swift would execute successful the courtroom play is anyone’s guess, but the “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” vocalist is known to beryllium up for a ineligible fight. In 2015, she sued DJ David Mueller for intersexual battle regarding a 2013 incidental successful which helium groped her during an lawsuit astatine his Denver vigor station.

The lawsuit went to proceedings successful 2017, with Swift claiming triumph and a symbolic $1 payout from Mueller.