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Liam Gallagher spotted in London pub, after claiming to be too ill to give child support deposition in New York
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 27 November 2014
The child support dispute between Liam Gallagher and Liza Ghorbani continues, with both sides attempting to reach a settlement. Or at least they will be when Gallagher is well enough to travel to New York to give a deposition.
As previously reported, Ghorbani sued Gallagher for $3 million last year. The pair met after Ghorbani interviewed the singer for The New York Times in 2012, beginning an affair which resulted in the birth of the child and, more recently, Gallagher’s divorce from Nicole Appleton. Court proceedings were then adjourned in May this year to allow for settlement negotiations to continue.
Gallagher was due to appear in New York to give a deposition to Ghorbani’s lawyer Ira Garr last week, but called off the visit claiming that he was too ill to fly. Though the New York Post has since pulled a photograph off Facebook seemingly showing the former Oasis frontman sitting in a pub “watching what appeared to be a football match” on Saturday. “The following day he was seen scowling under a hat as he went to pick up groceries”, the paper notes.
Whether or not this proves that Gallagher was, in fact, well enough to fly to New York is debatable, not least because we don’t know when he was meant to be flying (it could have been earlier in the week when he may well have been under the weather). Either way, the singer’s lawyer has confirmed that the deposition will now take place on Monday. Though regardless, it’s a PR win for Ghorbani.
Garr told the New York Post: “Gallagher was supposed to be deposed last Friday, but his attorney filed an emergency application to the court because he was too ill to travel. It appears he has no great desire to be deposed”.
Further putting the boot in, he added: “The fact that he hasn’t even seen the child is a great source of disappointment to the mother”.
Gallagher’s lawyer Raoul Felder said that despite the delay, all was moving ahead in the proper manner, saying: “We have exchanged financial information with Liza’s attorneys. It was vetted by accountants and was perfectly appropriate”.
Last month Gallagher announced that his post-Oasis band Beady Eye is “no more”, making way for him to focus on this case, and for guitarist Andy Bell to reform Ride.
