Justin Baldoni takes litigation against her former publicist Stephanie Jones and accuses her of triggering the legal battle between him and Blake Lively.
Baldoni filed the trial in the federal court in New York on March 21 against the founder of the PR company Jonesworks.
In his filing, It ends with us Director has accused Jones of violating client confidentiality by sharing private conversation, which was then used as central evidence in a separate trial that lively filed against him.
“It is undeniable that Stephanie Jones began this catastrophic sequence of events by violating the most basic of privacy, as well as any remaining confidence that her clients had,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said in a statement to People Magazine regarding the recent complaint.
The recent trial is the sixth that is attached to It ends with us Production that began with lively defendant Baldoni, producer Jamey Heath and Wayfarer-Medfifter Steve Sarowitz, who claimed sexual harassment and a smear campaign launched to hurt her reputation.
The New York Times Later, it claimed it had reviewed “Thousands of Pages of Text Messages and E emails that she obtained through a subpoena.”
Baldoni has claimed that Jones got his hands on the text messages after seizing Abel’s phone when she informed Jones that she was traveling to start her own company. Abel was told that Jonesworks would have reason to sue if she did not allow Jones to access her personal laptop.
“Jones [had] the contents of Abel’s phone turned to Lively and her team – without a subpoena – so they could cut and dice her communication to construct a false tale of the source of Lively’s bad advertising, “Baldoni’s complaint read.
“By turning these materials into lively, Jones fully knew that blowback would not only seek out Abel, but also her clients, Wayfares and Baldoni. As a result of Jones’ malicious scheme, Abel’s life has turned upside down. continued her complaints.
It is relevant to mention that Jones was the first to file a lawsuit against Baldoni and Abel in December.
Baldoni then hit back at Lively New York Times By suing them for defamation and libel in separate litigation before counting Jones in March.
