Justin Baldoni is working on his former publisherist, Stephanie Jones It ends with usCo-star, Blake Lively.
Baldoni is currently enveloped in a fire storm with Lively, who sued the actor and director-with crisis-PR-driver Melissa Nathan, producer Jamey Heath, co-founder of Wayfarer, Steve Sarowitz-in December 2024 on allegations of sexual harassment and a coordinated campaign to her reputation.
The lawsuit landed amid rumors of a feud that started while the couple shot the adjustment of the novel of Colleen Hoover, and was fueled because it looked to avoid each other during the promotional tour.
Shortly thereafter, Jones filed a case against Baldoni for breach of contract and linked her dismissal to the alleged smear campaign against Lively.
The Publisist claimed that she fired her former employee Jennifer Abel last summer after she learned that she was stealing business documents in an effort to start her own business.
When Abel returned her company’s phone to Jones, Jones claimed that his text messages and e -mails related to Abel’s work with Baldoni and his studio Wayfarer discovered, at what stage that she apparently realized that Abel was involved in a retribution against Lively.
Baldoni and Abel are suing Jones now, accusing her of violating the confidentiality of clients by sharing private communications that later became central evidence in Lively’s lawsuit.
“It is unmistakable that Stephanie Jones began this catastrophic succession of events by violating the most basic privacy rights, as well as any remaining confidence her clients held,” Baldoni’s Advocate Bryan Freedman said in a statement People.
‘No stranger to generating crisiscenarios for departing clients, Ms. Jones maliciously transferred communication from the phone she wrongly took from her own partner to her cohort [Lively’s personal publicist] Leslie Sloane, immediately after Jones ended Wayfarer because of her own wrongful behavior. ‘
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Jones ‘lawyer said in a statement to the publication:’ Ms. Jones’ lawsuit is based entirely on facts and concrete evidence. It clearly shows that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to steal the confidential documents, clients and staff and eventually destroy the business that Ms Jones spent to build decades.
“Abel, Nathan, Baldoni and their co -accused have tried to achieve these outcomes through bullying, distortion and direct difference. These facts are backed by dozens of messages we submitted months ago and cannot be believable.
“With no facts or evidence, we see a well -known playbook – lubricate our client, and culminate on the work of fiction that mannered the against -claims submitted yesterday.”
The latest lawsuit is the sixth linked to the production of It ends with us, which was released in bad reviews in August last year.
Baldoni has the New York Times For $ 250 million in January on the report on Lively’s allegations against him, and accused the publication of slander and false-light invasion of privacy. The newspaper defended its reporting and said it was planning to “defend powerfully” against the lawsuit.
The former Jane the virgin Star Dan Lively and her husband, actor and producer Ryan Reynolds, opposed $ 400m and accused them of trying to “destroy” his reputation and career.
Reynolds’ advocates this week filed a motion to reject Baldoni’s lawsuit against him and said he could not sue “hurt feelings”.
In January, a federal judge in New York told both parties to prepare for a trial in March 2026.
