Justin Baldoni‘s ex-publicist needs it recognized she was not a part of the alleged plot to smear Blake Full of life — and, in actual fact, she’s now suing the ladies Blake accused … claiming they tried to destroy her repute, too.
This is the deal … Stephanie Jones is an enormous deal celeb publicist, who reps of us like Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Venus Williams and Baldoni … up till this 12 months, anyway. Within the lawsuit she simply filed, Jones says her ex-employee Jennifer Abel was assigned to deal with Baldoni’s publicity, and it was Abel’s choice to rent Melissa Nathan, a disaster PR specialist, when the “It Ends With Us” feud was beginning to erupt.
Bear in mind, as TMZ first reported, Jennifer and Melissa are the two publicists Blake is accusing of launching the smear marketing campaign.
Now, within the new docs obtained by TMZ, Stephanie says Jennifer and Melissa’s actual objective was, “tearing down Jones’ repute to take her shoppers and enrich themselves upon Abel’s deliberate departure from” Jones’ PR agency.
Her lawsuit contains alleged textual content messages between the ladies … one among which, reveals Melissa telling Jennifer, “I do know. And as soon as you’re gone — we can be on accounts collectively and make actually good cash and be joyful.”
There are others discussing Jennifer leaving Jones’ agency and stealing Baldoni as a shopper.
Within the go well with, Stephanie stresses her ex-employee, Jennifer, did not even like Baldoni. One alleged textual content she despatched stated, “I am unable to stand him. He is so pompous. … you are not that essential and no one provides a s**t how onerous your life is.”
Jennifer additionally allegedly texted that Baldoni wanted to be taken down a notch. In projecting “It Ends With Us” may bomb on the field workplace, she wrote … “He must be humbled. When this film flops, he’ll attempt to blame each particular person round him for it.”
However, Stephanie claims Jennifer and Melissa additionally had their knives out for her — within the go well with, she says they labored media contacts to plant adverse tales about her. Particularly, she cites one article headlined, “Who’s Afraid of Stephanie Jones?”
There are different texts the place Jennifer is clearly excited concerning the plan to screw her boss. As an example, she allegedly texted Melissa, “We’re going to battle … I really feel so alive hahahahah.” And Melissa replied, telling Jennifer she was leaving Stephanie’s firm “with a BANG.”
In line with the go well with, Stephanie found Jennifer’s plot in August — as a result of she allegedly downloaded confidential firm paperwork — and fired her. It seems Stephanie discovered all these textual content messages by way of a sweep of Jennifer’s gadgets after she bought canned.
Stephanie is suing Justin, Jennifer, Melissa and Justin’s firm, Wayfarer Studios, for defamation, breach of contract and extra. She needs the court docket to award unspecified damages she believes her firm has suffered.
Her lawyer Kristin Tahler tells TMZ … “For moths, this group has gaslit and disparaged Stephanie Jones and her firm for monetary acquire, to settle private scores and most not too long ago to distract from their disgraceful smearing of Blake Full of life.” She provides, Stephanie is suing merely to “recuperate the repute she has labored a long time to ascertain.”