A process server was arrested outside Travis Kelce’s home after allegedly trying to deliver deposition papers to Taylor Swift on behalf of Justin Baldoni‘s legal team, connected to the It Ends With Us director and actor’s ongoing dispute with Blake Lively.
PEOPLE has confirmed the man, identified as Justin Lee Fisher, 48, was arrested in the early morning hours of Sept. 15 after being suspected of climbing over a fence at the Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s gated estate in Leawood, Kansas.
Swift and Kelce, both 35, were believed to be at home during the incident. Fisher was reportedly charged with “jumping the fence onto a private residence in a private neighborhood.”
Details of the arrest were not fully disclosed in the one-page police report, which allegedly stated in bold, “This information is restricted as to use and dissemination,” according to the Kansas City Star, which first reported the story.
On Sept. 13, PEOPLE reported that Swift is unlikely to be deposed in the legal battle.
Lewis J. Liman, the U.S. District judge presiding over the case, rejected Baldoni’s request for a 30-day extension to the Sept. 30 discovery deadline. Lively, however, was granted an extension until Oct. 10.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, had asked for more time to question Swift, claiming in a Sept. 11 letter to Judge Liman that she was willing to sit for a deposition. He wrote that the singer “has agreed to appear for deposition, but couldn’t until Oct. 20 due to her preexisting professional obligations.”
Swift’s attorney quickly disputed that assertion in a letter the same day, making clear she had not agreed to testify.
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“My client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into one, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule could allow it during the week of October 20 if the parties resolved their disputes. We take no role in those disputes,” the attorney stated.
Lively filed suit last December against Baldoni, her It Ends With Us costar and director, along with his Wayfarer Studios colleagues, publicist, and crisis PR team. She accused them of sexual harassment and launching a retaliatory smear campaign after she came forward — allegations they deny.
Swift’s name surfaced in the case when Baldoni filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of defamation and extortion. Judge Liman dismissed that suit in June.
In those filings, Baldoni claimed he was pressured into accepting one of Lively’s suggested rewrites for the film during a meeting at Lively and Reynolds’s New York City penthouse, where Swift was also present.
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During a later text exchange with Baldoni, Lively allegedly made a Game of Thrones reference, calling Reynolds and Swift her “dragons.”
Baldoni’s legal team also subpoenaed Swift in May, a move her representative condemned.
“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 headlining the biggest tour in history,” her rep said in a statement to PEOPLE.
That subpoena was withdrawn later the same month.
