Justin Baldoni’s PR Rep Files Suit Against Ex-Boss in Blake Lively Legal Drama

Justin Baldoni‘s PR rep Jennifer Abel is firing again at her former boss, Stephanie Jones, together with her personal lawsuit … next being sued by way of SJ in December.

Abel has leased Baldoni’s powerhouse attorney Bryan Freedman, who accuses Stephanie of triggering the entire felony drama between Justin and Blake Vigorous involving their movie, “It Ends with Us.”

Freedman filed the counterclaims on Abel’s behalf in opposition to Jones — who’s the CEO of the PR corporate Jonesworks, which nonetheless represents Justin.

In a remark, Freedman tells GWN … “It is undeniable that Stephanie Jones initiated this catastrophic sequence of events by violating the most basic of privacy rights, as well as any remaining trust her clients held.”

Freedman says Stephanie is “no stranger to stirring up crisis scenarios for departing clients,” accusing her of maliciously turning over “communications from the phone she wrongfully took from her own partner to her cohort Leslie Sloane, immediately after Jones was terminated for cause by Wayfarer due to her own wrongful behavior.” Leslie, in fact, is Blake’s PR rep, who has additionally been sued by way of Baldoni.

Freedman is going on to mention Vigorous “walked right into Ms. Jones’ ploy of bitter revenge against her most-trusted employee at the expense of her own long-term client.”

The legal professional ended with … “We will not stop until our clients are cleared of all wrongdoing and compensated for the vast damages that they have incurred.”

Within the unused court docket doctors, filed Thursday, Abel responds to Jones’ lawsuit in opposition to her, Baldoni, and Baldoni’s PR catastrophe supervisor Melissa Nathan … Abel makes a host of counterclaims, together with invasion of privateness, fake shiny and intentional infliction of emotional misery.

As you realize … Baldoni has filed a couple of primary complaints in fresh months — together with the immense $400 million lawsuit he and his manufacturing corporate, Wayfarer Studios, filed in opposition to Blake, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloane.

Within the swimsuit, Baldoni claims the 3 began a smear marketing campaign in opposition to him to pull keep an eye on of the film “It Ends with Us.”

Vigorous filed swimsuit first in opposition to Baldoni in December, claiming he sexually careworn her at the film prepared and upcoming launched into a centered smear marketing campaign in opposition to her within the media.

Kristin Tahler, spouse at Quinn Emmanuel, who’s representing Jones, tells GWN … “Ms. Jones’ lawsuit is primarily based solely on info and urban proof. That swimsuit obviously displays that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to scouse borrow reams of unrevealed paperwork, purchasers and body of workers and in the end try to ruin the trade that Ms. Jones spent many years development.”

She continues, “Abel, Nathan, Baldoni and their co-defendants tried to succeed in those results thru bullying distortion and outright disparagement. Those info are sponsored up by way of dozens of messages equipped within the swimsuit we filed occasion in the past and can’t be credibly disputed.