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 … 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 Lively 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 firm Jonesworks, which nonetheless represents Justin.

In a press release, Freedman tells TMZ … “It’s simple that Stephanie Jones initiated this catastrophic sequence of occasions by violating essentially the most primary of privateness rights, in addition to any remaining belief her purchasers held.”

Freedman says Stephanie is “no stranger to stirring up disaster eventualities for departing purchasers,” accusing her of maliciously turning over “communications from the telephone she wrongfully took from her personal accomplice to her cohort Leslie Sloane, instantly after Jones was terminated for trigger by Wayfarer on account of her personal wrongful conduct.” Leslie, after all, is Blake’s PR rep, who has additionally been sued by Baldoni.

Freedman goes on to say Lively “walked proper into Ms. Jones’ ploy of bitter revenge in opposition to her most-trusted worker on the expense of her personal long-term consumer.”

The lawyer ended with … “We is not going to cease till our purchasers 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 in opposition to 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 already know … Baldoni has filed just a few main lawsuits in latest months — together with the large $400 million lawsuit he and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios, filed in opposition to Blake, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloane.

Within the swimsuit, Baldoni claims the three began a smear marketing campaign in opposition to him to take management of the film “It Ends with Us.”

Lively filed swimsuit first in opposition to Baldoni in December, claiming he sexually harassed her on the film set and later launched into a focused smear marketing campaign in opposition to her in the media.

Kristin Tahler, accomplice at Quinn Emmanuel, who’s representing Jones, tells TMZ … “Ms. Jones’ lawsuit relies completely on information and concrete proof. That swimsuit clearly reveals that Jen Abel conspired with Melissa Nathan and others to steal reams of confidential paperwork, purchasers and workers and finally try and destroy the enterprise that Ms. Jones spent many years constructing.”

She continues, “Abel, Nathan, Baldoni and their co-defendants tried to attain these outcomes via bullying distortion and outright disparagement. These information are backed up by dozens of messages supplied in the swimsuit we filed month in the past and can’t be credibly disputed.