Justin Baldoni
PR Rep Recordsdata 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, together 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 Vigorous 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 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, after all, is Blake’s PR rep, who has additionally been sued by Baldoni.
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Freedman goes on to say 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 lawyer 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 new courtroom 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 recognize … Baldoni has filed a couple of main lawsuits in latest months — together with the large $400 million lawsuit he and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios, filed towards Blake, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloane.
Within the go well with, Baldoni claims the three began a smear marketing campaign towards him to take management of the film “It Ends with Us.”
Vigorous filed go well with 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, accomplice at Quinn Emmanuel, who’s representing Jones, tells TMZ … “Ms. Jones’ lawsuit relies solely on details and concrete proof. That go well with clearly exhibits that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to steal reams of confidential paperwork, shoppers and employees and finally try to destroy the enterprise that Ms. Jones spent many years constructing.”
She continues, “Abel, Nathan, Baldoni and their co-defendants tried to realize these outcomes by means of bullying distortion and outright disparagement. These details are backed up by dozens of messages offered within the go well with we filed month in the past and can’t be credibly disputed.
Tahler concludes with … “Having no facts or evidence, we see a familiar playbook — smear our client, culminating in the work of fiction masquerading as the counterclaims that were filed yesterday.”
