Man Arrested Trying to Serve Taylor Swift Deposition Papers from Justin Baldoni

It’s unclear how Fisher became contracted by Baldoni’s team to deliver the deposition papers, but their choice of messenger might just be the most ironic development in this case yet. As Star reported, Fisher was employed as a cop for the Fort Scott, Kansas, Police Department from 2013 to 2021. After 2021, he became a part-time “law enforcement officer.” However, Fisher’s license was revoked for five years after a “domestic incident” that involved him and his wife on April 21, 2023, according to the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training consent decree. A former cop with a “domestic incident” on his record trespassing on private property to deliver deposition paperwork on behalf of a man accused of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment? The jokes write themselves.

Furthermore, Swift has denied giving a deposition in the case as recently as September 12, but indicated she would participate only if she were “forced.”

“As counsel for the parties know, since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action,” her attorney Douglas Baldridge wrote to the presiding judge, Lewis Liman, in a letter. “Further, 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.”

News of the arrest comes less than a week after Baldoni brought on some rather dubious additional counsel. On Monday, according to a court document obtained by Page Six, Baldoni’s camp informed the New York federal court that “Alexandra A.E. Shapiro of Shapiro Arato Bach LLP hereby appears as counsel for” Baldoni—as well as his co-defendants, publicists Melissa Nathan, Jennifer Abel, and Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath. Shapiro is widely regarded as a heavyweight in her field, representing Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.

Earlier this month, People also Blake Lively’s accusations against Baldoni.

In a sworn declaration obtained by the magazine, an individual whose name has been redacted said they “had repeated, negative interactions with Mr. Baldoni and his associates, including verbal abuse by Mr. Baldoni.” The individual reportedly worked with Baldoni on a project that wasn’t It Ends with Us, and, from the sounds of it, it didn’t go well. In the redacted document, the individual “requested that he [Baldoni] not be involved” in said unnamed project’s marketing or PR. They also cite a meeting with Steve Sarowitz, the co-founder and co-chairman of Baldoni’s production company, Wayfarer Studios.

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