Justin Baldoni
PR Rep Information Counterclaims In opposition to Ex-Boss
… Calls Out ‘Bitter Revenge’ Ploy
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Justin Baldoni‘s PR rep Jennifer Abel is firing again at her former boss, Stephanie Jones, along with her personal lawsuit … after being sued by SJ in December.
Abel has employed Baldoni’s powerhouse lawyer Bryan Freedman, who accuses Stephanie of triggering the entire authorized drama between Justin and Blake Full of life involving their movie, “It Ends with Us.”
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Freedman filed the counterclaims on Abel’s behalf towards Jones — who’s the CEO of the PR firm Jonesworks, which nonetheless represents Justin.
In an announcement, Freedman tells TMZ … “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 says Stephanie is “no stranger to stirring up disaster situations for departing shoppers,” accusing her of maliciously turning over “communications from the telephone she wrongfully took from her personal associate to her cohort Leslie Sloane, instantly after Jones was terminated for trigger by Wayfarer because of her personal wrongful conduct.” Leslie, in fact, is Blake’s PR rep, who has additionally been sued by Baldoni.
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Freedman goes on to say Full of life “walked proper into Ms. Jones’ ploy of bitter revenge towards her most-trusted worker on the expense of her personal long-term consumer.”
The lawyer ended with … “We won’t cease till our shoppers are cleared of all wrongdoing and compensated for the huge damages that they’ve incurred.”
Within the new court docket docs, filed Thursday, Abel responds to Jones’ lawsuit towards her, Baldoni, and Baldoni’s PR disaster supervisor Melissa Nathan … Abel makes a bunch of counterclaims, together with invasion of privateness, false mild and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
As you realize … Baldoni has filed just a few main lawsuits in latest months — together with the huge $400 million lawsuit he and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios, filed towards Blake, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloane.
Within the swimsuit, Baldoni claims the three began a smear marketing campaign towards him to take management of the film “It Ends with Us.”
Full of life filed swimsuit first towards Baldoni in December, claiming he sexually harassed her on the film set and later launched into a focused smear marketing campaign towards her within the media.
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Kristin Tahler, associate at Quinn Emmanuel, who’s representing Jones, tells TMZ … “Ms. Jones’ lawsuit is predicated completely on information and concrete proof. That swimsuit clearly exhibits that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to steal reams of confidential paperwork, shoppers and employees and ultimately try to destroy the enterprise that Ms. Jones spent a long time constructing.”
She continues, “Abel, Nathan, Baldoni and their co-defendants tried to realize these outcomes by means of 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.
Tahler concludes with … “Having no information or proof, we see a well-known playbook — smear our consumer, culminating within the work of fiction masquerading because the counterclaims that have been filed yesterday.”
