A process server was arrested outside Travis Kelce’s home after allegedly trying to serve Taylor Swift deposition papers on behalf of Justin Baldoni’s lawyers, connected to the It Ends With Us director and actor’s legal dispute with Blake Lively.
PEOPLE can confirm the man, identified as Justin Lee Fisher, 48, was taken into custody in the early hours of Sept. 15 after allegedly jumping a fence into the Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s gated Leawood, Kansas estate.
The newly engaged couple, both 35, were believed to be home at the time. Fisher was reportedly charged with “jumping the fence onto a private residence in a private neighborhood.”
Details of the incident were missing from the one-page police report, which reportedly stated in bold letters, “This information is restricted as to use and dissemination,” according to Star, the first outlet to report the news.
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On Sept. 13, PEOPLE reported that Swift is unlikely to be deposed in the legal battle.
U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman, overseeing the case, denied Baldoni’s request for a 30-day extension of the discovery cut-off date, Sept. 30, though Lively’s extension request to Oct. 10 was granted.
Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, had sought additional time to depose Swift, claiming in a Sept. 11 letter to Judge Liman that the “Bad Blood” singer “has agreed to appear for deposition, but couldn’t until Oct. 20 due to her preexisting professional obligations.”
However, Swift — who is releasing her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Oct. 3 — did not agree to a deposition. Her attorney responded the same day, stating, “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. We take no role in those disputes.”
Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, her It Ends With Us co-star and director, along with his Wayfarer Studios colleagues, publicist, and crisis PR team last December. She alleged that she faced sexual harassment and was targeted by a retaliatory smear campaign after speaking up, claims that Baldoni and his team deny.
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Swift — whose song “My Tears Ricochet” is featured in the film — was first mentioned in the case when Baldoni filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, alleging defamation and extortion. Judge Liman dismissed that suit in June.
In court documents, Baldoni claimed he was pressured into accepting one of Lively’s suggested rewrites for the movie during a meeting with Swift and Reynolds, after being “summoned” to Lively and Reynolds’s New York City penthouse.
During a text exchange with Baldoni following the meeting, Lively allegedly referenced HBO’s Game of Thrones and called Reynolds and Swift her “dragons.”
Baldoni’s lawyers also subpoenaed Swift in May, a move her representatives criticized at the time.
“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,” Swift’s rep said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.
The subpoena was withdrawn later that month.