It’s Friday afternoon. The sun is shining. The weekend hovers on the horizon with good times ahead. It’s been a quiet week, all considered, with no additional legal mishegoss from the ongoing It Ends With Us lawsuit pile-on and then … wait … no … Justin Baldoni and Jennifer Abel, his current publicist, are suing his former publicist Stephanie Jones in the midst of also suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and the New York Times. Have these guys run out of all the possible lawsuit permutations by now? This has been going on for nearly three months. What is one more lawsuit going to do exactly?
Per Variety, Baldoni set his sights on Jones, with his lawyer, Bryan Freedman, claiming that she leaked private communications to Leslie Sloane, Lively’s PR. During the premiere of It Ends With Us last summer, Jones was working with Abel at her company Jonesworks, the two of them collaborating on Baldoni’s behalf. Abel announced to Jones that she was leaving the firm to start her own company in August of 2024, which Baldoni’s newest legal complaint alleges led Jones to turn on him. When Abel quit her job, Jonesworks demanded she turn over all her computer data. “In turning over these materials to Lively, Jones knew full well that the blowback would engulf not only Abel but also her clients, Wayfarer, and Baldoni,” the complaint alleges.
So, to follow the logical thread here, just in case you’re lost with all the Spider-Man-pointing meme going on here: The new complaint alleges that Baldoni’s team hired Jones and Abel, fired Jones, then Jones went to Sloane with confidential texts, who then took those texts to Lively and the Times. One starts to wonder how many lawsuits will be enough to satisfy anyone involved anymore. Better get at least one more in there, just to be safe.
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Another week, another It Ends With Us lawsuit.
