Breaking Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni legal war takes new twist with claims of ‘psychic readings’ and ‘mental breakdowns’ EnglishHeadline

Justin Baldoni’s authorized battle with Blake Vigorous has taken a weird new twist, with attorneys launching 14 new claims towards his embattled former publicist, Stephanie Jones, on Thursday.

Baldoni’s, 41, film firm, Wayfarer, and his publicist for the movie It Ends With Us, Jennifer Abel, each filed new claims together with a violation of the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act, breach of contract, defamation, and fraud towards Jones.

They accused Jones of snooping on Abel’s personal messages all the best way till January this yr, and plotting a ‘flagrant abuse of course of’ with Vigorous, 37, to generate a subpoena from a ‘sham lawsuit’ to cowl up Jones allegedly leaking messages to Vigorous.

Abel’s new submitting additionally accused Jones of constructing ‘weird’ claims about Abel to her workers based mostly on supposed data from ‘psychic readings.’

‘In a single occasion, Jones introduced to Abel’s subordinates that she had realized by psychic readings that Abel was an alcoholic and a playing addict.’ 

Abel added that the declare had ‘no foundation in actuality’, and as an alternative ‘raised alarm about whether or not Jones was within the midst of a psychological breakdown.’

Justin Baldoni’s, 41, authorized battle with Blake Vigorous, 37, has taken a weird new twist, with attorneys launching 14 new claims towards his embattled former publicist Stephanie Jones

Abel’s courtroom doc stated: ‘Though Jones had at all times been risky, she now gave the impression to be actively unraveling.’

‘On a distinct event, Jones introduced, once more per her psychic, that Abel would quickly be pregnant with twins, humiliating and infuriating Abel, who—Jones knew—had struggled with fertility points,’ the submitting stated.

Jones’ attorneys shot again, calling the brand new claims ‘simply distraction and noise’ and ‘a number of debunked conspiracy theories’, in a scathing assertion to DailyMail.com. 

The 2 bombshell paperwork filed in New York federal courtroom totaled a mixed 125 pages. 

The identical evening the paperwork have been filed, Vigorous attended the TIME100 all-star gala in New York Metropolis, following her controversial inclusion on the publication’s Most Influential Individuals listing. She was joined by her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, on the occasion.

She sparked a livid response from Megyn Kelly, who informed DailyMail.com Blake ‘should not be right here.’

Megyn accused her of ‘bastardiz[ing] Me Too allegations’ in her quest to sue Baldoni for sexual harassment, which he has denied.

The newest filings within the authorized conflict have been made in Jones’ lawsuit towards Abel.

After Vigorous and Baldoni’s authorized battle exploded into the courts in December, Jones sued her former staffer Abel in January claiming that Abel plotted behind her again to steal Baldoni as a consumer, and falsely pinned an alleged smear marketing campaign towards Vigorous on Jones.

Trial-watchers have been anticipating a run-of-the mill submitting this night: a boilerplate denial of Jones’ claims.

However as an alternative, Baldoni and Abel’s lawyer Bryan Freedman went on the offensive.

Abel’s submitting accused Jones of stealing her private information from her Jonesworks PR agency firm telephone when she introduced she was quitting in July 2024.

Baldoni’s film firm Wayfarer and his publicist for the movie It Ends With Us, Jennifer Abel, each filed new claims together with a violation of the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act, breach of contract, defamation, and fraud towards Jones (pictured)

Abel’s new submitting accuses Jones of ‘weird’ claims to workers, based mostly on ‘psychic readings,’ together with false accusations about Abel (pictured) being ‘an alcoholic and a playing addict’, which Abel says brought about alarm about Jones being ‘within the midst of a psychological breakdown’ 

They accused Jones of snooping on Abel’s personal messages all the best way till January this yr, and plotting a ‘flagrant abuse of course of’ with Vigorous to generate a subpoena from a ‘sham lawsuit’ to cowl up Jones allegedly leaking messages to Vigorous

She claimed Jones had illicit entry to all her private texts by her iCloud account – till as lately as January this yr.

Abel claimed the alleged snooping amounted to a ‘violation of the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act’, ‘violations of Saved Communications Act’ and ‘violations of the Federal Wiretap Act’.

The claws have been out within the submitting, with Abel giving a damning description of Jones’ office.

She claimed morale at Jonesworks was ‘Abysmal’, that it ‘had a poisonous office tradition’, and workers ‘consistently gossiped and complained’.

Abel even claimed Jones would ‘repeatedly activate deafening music in order that she may berate her staff free from scrutiny.’

She quoted an unnamed former worker allegedly saying ‘I don’t suppose there was at some point within the workplace that somebody wasn’t crying.’

Abel claimed that when she left and Jones seized her firm telephone, the PR boss ‘had been sharing her personal textual content messages with the whole workplace, mocking and disparaging her.’

The submitting even claimed Jones ‘retained entry to Abel’s iCloud for a number of months thereafter, monitoring and intercepting her personal communications in real-time […] not solely together with her purchasers, fiancé, medical doctors, dad and mom, and mates but in addition with the undersigned counsel.’

Of their filings, each Abel and Wayfarer cited one other twist within the case that was revealed by DailyMail.com final week.

Jones’ attorneys shot again, calling the brand new claims ‘simply distraction and noise’ and ‘a number of debunked conspiracy theories’, in a scathing assertion to DailyMail.com

After Vigorous and Baldoni’s authorized battle exploded into the courts in December, Jones sued her former staffer Abel in January claiming that Abel plotted behind her again to steal Baldoni as a consumer, and falsely pinned an alleged smear marketing campaign towards Vigorous on Jones 

And now Baldoni and Abel’s lawyer Bryan Freedman (pictured) went on the offensive. Abel’s submitting accused Jones of stealing her private information from her Jonesworks PR agency firm telephone when she introduced she was quitting in July 2024

Jones claimed she was merely complying with a authorized subpoena when she turned over a piece cellphone to Vigorous that finally served because the spine of the actress’s defamation lawsuit towards Baldoni; Vigorous seen April 15

DailyMail.com uncovered how Vigorous used her little-known firm Vanzan Inc. to quietly file a mysterious lawsuit towards unnamed defendants in September final yr, months earlier than her public authorized battle with Baldoni started 

She then used the lawsuit to secretly subject a subpoena to Jones for embarrassing texts between Baldoni, Abel and his disaster PR Melissa Nathan, with out alerting any of them. Public data for Vanzan Inc listing a enterprise tackle in New York Metropolis and its CEO as ‘Blake Reynolds’  

DailyMail.com uncovered how Vigorous used her little-known firm Vanzan Inc. to quietly file a mysterious lawsuit towards unnamed defendants in September final yr, months earlier than her public authorized battle with Baldoni started.

She then used the lawsuit to secretly subject a subpoena to Jones for embarrassing texts between Baldoni, Abel and his disaster PR Melissa Nathan, with out alerting any of them.

The texts, allegedly displaying a smear marketing campaign plot towards Vigorous, have been utilized in her bombshell California authorized grievance in December that kicked off the general public authorized conflict between the 2 Hollywood stars, and have been shared with the New York Instances in an explosive article the following day.

Of their authorized submitting on Thursday evening, Abel and Wayfarer slammed the tactic as a ‘sham lawsuit’ and ‘nothing greater than a clear ploy to acquire subpoena energy.’

Abel referred to as it a ‘flagrant abuse of course of’.

‘Since there have been no identifiable events and no social gathering had been served, the subpoenas have been issued with out discover, depriving Abel of any data of the subpoena, a lot much less the chance to object,’ her submitting stated.

She accused Jones of getting already leaked texts with Vigorous’s staff – and utilizing the key Vanzan lawsuit to create ‘a veneer of legitimacy’ and ‘believable deniability’.

‘Because of Jones’ malicious scheme, Abel’s life has been turned the wrong way up,’ her submitting stated.

The identical evening the paperwork have been filed, Vigorous attended the TIME100 all-star gala in New York Metropolis, following her controversial inclusion on the publication’s Most Influential Individuals listing. She was joined by her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, on the occasion

Vigorous sparked a livid response from Megyn Kelly, who informed DailyMail.com Blake ‘should not be right here. Megyn accused her of ‘bastardiz[ing] Me Too allegations’ in her quest to sue Baldoni for sexual harassment, which he has denied

In her December grievance, Vigorous claimed Baldoni had acted unprofessionally on the set of the home abuse film It Ends With Us wherein the pair starred and Baldoni additionally directed

‘In an unimaginable invasion of Abel’s privateness and dignity, Jones and the Vigorous Events now possess the complete contents of Abel’s iCloud and e mail accounts, together with her photographs, textual content messages, and emails. Abel lives in worry of what’s to come back, given the huge troves of non-public information within the possession of those hostile actors.’

Wayfarer’s submitting accused Jones of a ‘breach of contract’ for giving up the messages, claiming it violated the ‘confidentiality provision’ by ‘voluntarily and maliciously disclosing Confidential Info’.

In addition to two counts of ‘Breach of contract’, they accused Jones of ‘breach of implied covenant’ and defamation.

Jones’ attorneys hit again with statements to DailyMail.com slamming the brand new claims as a distraction from what they are saying was an easy breach of contract by Abel.

Jones’ lawyer Kristin Tahler accused Freedman of ‘reversing course, dropping beforehand touted claims, presenting zero new proof’.

Tahler was referring to Abel’s earlier stance that she had suffered ‘false imprisonment’, trapped on the Jonesworks workplace and intimidated into signing paperwork and giving up her firm telephone – a declare that didn’t seem within the new filings on Thursday.

‘This case might be selected the mountain of proof that demonstrates Wayfarer Studios and Ms. Abel intentionally breached their contracts with Jonesworks, which the defendants have conspicuously did not rebut,’ fellow lawyer Maaren Shah added.

‘The defendants’ weak try and assemble their very own case towards Ms. Jones quantities to nothing quite a lot of debunked conspiracy theories and media gimmicks that haven’t any foundation the truth is or proof.’

Till DailyMail.com’s discovery of the Vanzan lawsuit, the timeline of the courtroom battle between Vigorous and Baldoni appeared to start in December, when she filed a California Civil Rights Division grievance and a federal lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation.

Vigorous claimed he had acted unprofessionally on the set of the home abuse film It Ends With Us wherein the pair starred and Baldoni additionally directed.

She additionally accused Baldoni and his staff of publicists of launching a smear marketing campaign towards her amid the discharge of the movie final summer season.

The movie on the coronary heart of the feud, based mostly on the 2016 bestseller by Colleen Hoover, was launched in August and was a field workplace hit 

Baldoni filed a countersuit in January. Each events deny the allegations towards them.

The New York Instances revealed an explosive story concerning the alleged sexual harassment and smear marketing campaign instantly after Vigorous’s California submitting, referring extensively to the embarrassing texts between Baldoni’s publicists obtained by Vigorous’s attorneys.

The paper reported that the texts included in Vigorous’s submitting had been obtained by a subpoena – a curious element that raised eyebrows on the time.

Freedman identified that he wasn’t conscious of a subpoena and that none of his purchasers had been subpoenaed within the matter at that stage.