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 adverse PR marketing campaign in opposition to her.

Baldoni lately added Jones as a defendant in his $400 million countersuit in opposition to Vigorous, however the PR knowledgeable says she was legally sure to show within the texts.

Blake Vigorous has additionally lately accused Justin Baldoni of utilizing “scorched earth” techniques in an try and silence her.

Baldoni’s former publicist, Stephanie Jones, has denied “leaking” textual content messages to Blake Vigorous that purportedly confirmed his group coordinating a smear marketing campaign in opposition to 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 “overtly” 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 in opposition to Vigorous, claiming she “maliciously” turned over a telephone containing delicate messages to the “Gossip Woman” star.

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

Nevertheless, Jones has now stated she was legally obligated to show over the texts to Vigorous after being served a subpoena in October.

In keeping with the Daily Mail, the purported subpoena ordered Jones to supply a variety of paperwork and conversations regarding Vigorous and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, noting that something exterior that will be punishable as contempt of court docket.

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

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

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

“No stranger to stirring up disaster eventualities for departing shoppers, Ms. Jones maliciously turned over communications from the telephone she wrongfully took from her personal associate to her cohort [Lively’s publicist] Leslie Sloane, instantly after Ms. Jones was terminated for trigger by Wayfarer as a result of 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 solely on information and concrete proof. That swimsuit clearly reveals that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to steal reams of confidential paperwork, shoppers, and workers and ultimately try and destroy the enterprise that Ms. Jones spent a long time constructing,” Tahler stated.

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

“Having no information 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, Vigorous has slammed Baldoni for using “scorched earth” techniques in an try and silence her over her sexual harassment lawsuit in opposition to him.

Her attorneys 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 girls, to main the cost to tear down the very legislation that protects girls 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,” Vigorous’s group stated.