Justin Baldoni‘s former publicist Stephanie Jones has hit again at claims she “leaked” textual content messages to Blake Vigorous that allegedly confirmed his group orchestrating a adverse PR marketing campaign in opposition to her.
Baldoni just lately added Jones as a defendant in his $400 million countersuit in opposition to Vigorous, however the PR skilled says she was legally certain to show within the texts.
Blake Vigorous has additionally just lately accused Justin Baldoni of utilizing “scorched earth” ways in an try and silence her.
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Justin Baldoni’s Former Publicist Claims She Was Legally Obligated To Share Texts With Blake Vigorous
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 cellphone 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.”
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Nevertheless, Jones has now stated she was legally obligated to show over the texts to Vigorous after being served a subpoena in October.
Based on the Day by day 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 courtroom.
Elsewhere in her submitting, Jones claimed that Baldoni and her former companion, Jennifer Abel, had violated their contracts along with her by allegedly conspiring with Nathan.
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Justin Baldoni’s Lawyer Claims Stephanie Jones ‘Violated’ Their Working Relationship
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 plain that Stephanie Jones initiated this catastrophic sequence of occasions by violating probably the most primary of privateness rights, in addition to any remaining belief her shoppers held,” Freedman stated.
“No stranger to stirring up disaster situations for departing shoppers, Ms. Jones maliciously turned over communications from the cellphone she wrongfully took from her personal companion 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.
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Stephanie Jones’s Lawyer Accuses The Actor Of ‘Bullying Distortion’
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 relies fully on info and concrete proof. That swimsuit clearly exhibits 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 realize these outcomes by means of bullying distortion and outright disparagement. These info are backed up by dozens of messages supplied within the swimsuit we filed month in the past and can’t be credibly disputed.”
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“Having no info or proof, we see a well-recognized playbook — smear our consumer, culminating within the work of fiction masquerading because the counterclaims that had been filed Thursday,” she added.
Blake Vigorous Claims Justin Baldoni Is Utilizing ‘Scorched Earth’ Ways In opposition to Her
In the meantime, Vigorous has slammed Baldoni for using “scorched earth” ways 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 had 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.
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“The chilling message scorched earth litigation sends to victims is keep silent or be destroyed,” Vigorous’s group stated.
