Justin Baldoni’s Ex-Publicist Slams Claim She ‘Leaked’ Texts To Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni‘s former publicist Stephanie Jones has hit again at claims she “leaked” textual content messages to Blake Lively that allegedly confirmed his group orchestrating a detrimental PR marketing campaign towards her.

Baldoni just lately added Jones as a defendant in his $400 million countersuit towards Full of life, however the PR professional says she was legally certain to show within the texts.

Blake Full of life has additionally just lately accused Justin Baldoni of utilizing “scorched earth” ways in an try to silence her.

Baldoni’s former publicist, Stephanie Jones, has denied “leaking” textual content messages to Blake Full of life that purportedly confirmed his group coordinating a smear marketing campaign towards the actress.

In a brand new authorized doc filed on Thursday, Jones, whose firm Jonesworks PR represented Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios all through the manufacturing of “It Ends With Us,” accused the actor of “openly” breaching his contract and slammed his claims that she was in on defaming him.

Baldoni added Jones as a defendant in his $400 million lawsuit towards Full of life, claiming she “maliciously” turned over a telephone containing delicate messages to the “Gossip Lady” star.

In one of many purported texts, Baldoni’s different publicist and Jones’s former consumer, Melissa Nathan, wrote, “We are able to bury anybody.”

Nonetheless, Jones has now mentioned she was legally obligated to show over the texts to Full of life after being served a subpoena in October.

In line with the Daily Mail, the purported subpoena ordered Jones to provide a variety of paperwork and conversations regarding Full of life and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, noting that something exterior that may be punishable as contempt of courtroom.

Elsewhere in her submitting, Jones claimed that Baldoni and her former accomplice, Jennifer Abel, had violated their contracts together with her by allegedly conspiring with Nathan.

In an announcement launched to the Day by day Mail, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, insisted that Jones “violated” the phrases of her working relationship with the actor.

“It’s simple that Stephanie Jones initiated this catastrophic sequence of occasions by violating probably the most fundamental of privateness rights, in addition to any remaining belief her purchasers held,” Freedman mentioned.

“No stranger to stirring up disaster situations for departing purchasers, Ms. Jones maliciously turned over communications from the telephone she wrongfully took from her personal accomplice to her cohort [Lively’s publicist] Leslie Sloane, instantly after Ms. Jones was terminated for trigger by Wayfarer resulting from her personal wrongful conduct,” he added.

In the meantime, Jones’s legal professional, Kristin Tahler, claimed in an announcement that Abel, Nathan, and Baldoni tried to “destroy” her consumer’s enterprise by “bullying distortion and outright disparagement.”

“Ms. Jones’ lawsuit is predicated completely on details and concrete proof. That swimsuit clearly exhibits that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to steal reams of confidential paperwork, purchasers, and workers and finally try to destroy the enterprise that Ms. Jones spent a long time constructing,” Tahler mentioned.

The assertion continued, “Abel, Nathan, Baldoni, and their co-defendants tried to realize these outcomes by means of bullying distortion and outright disparagement. These details are backed up by dozens of messages offered within the swimsuit we filed month in the past and can’t be credibly disputed.”

“Having no details or proof, we see a well-recognized playbook — smear our consumer, culminating within the work of fiction masquerading because the counterclaims that have been filed Thursday,” she added.

In the meantime, Full of life has slammed Baldoni for using “scorched earth” ways in an try to silence her over her sexual harassment lawsuit towards him.

Her legal professionals claimed in an announcement to Us Weekly that Baldoni is making an attempt to “tear down” California legal guidelines that have been put in place to guard victims from being sued “into oblivion” by their perpetrators.

“Mr. Baldoni has gone from monetizing a model dedicated to believing and supporting ladies to main the cost to tear down the very legislation that protects ladies who come ahead about sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination,” they wrote.

“California’s sexual harassment privilege, AB 933, was enacted to cease perpetrators of sexual harassment from abusing defamation lawsuits to sue their accusers into oblivion,” the assertion continued.

“The chilling message scorched earth litigation sends to victims is keep silent or be destroyed,” Full of life’s group mentioned.