Actor Blake Lively recently filed a legal complaint against her It Ends With Us co-star, Justin Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment and attempting to launch a smear campaign against her on social media through leaked text messages. charged to. This has left many wondering how Blake got access to the private conversations between Justin and his PR team. Read also: Justin Baldoni steps out with wife for first time after Blake Lively lawsuit ‘stressed’ and ‘no smile’
How did Blake get access to the texts?
The text messages are included in the complaint filed by Blake. “Ms. Lively obtained the communications described in this complaint through the legal process, including a civil subpoena,” the original complaint states. However, he did not reveal the source of these messages.
It’s interesting to note that Justin was a Jonesworks client, and both founder Stephanie Jones and her in-house publicist Jen Abel worked on his PR and image control.
according to DiversityOn August 21, Stephanie called Jane into her office and asked her to sign documents, and asked her to collect the office phone. Apparently, Stephanie had learned that Jen was looking to start her own firm.
Four months later, the contents of Jen’s phone became public in a New York Times story and Blake filed a complaint against Justin accusing him of launching a smear campaign against Jen.
angle of mystery
Legal observers are baffled by the way Blake’s lawyers obtained Jen’s text messages, in which she and other members of Justin’s PR team talk about “burying” Blake.
Her lawyers said she “obtained the communications outlined in this complaint through the legal process, including civil subpoenas”. On Monday, Blake’s attorneys said they received the messages via a subpoena to JonesWorks LLC.
However, Brian Friedman, who represents Jen, Justin, Crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studio and others involved in the case, noted that none of his clients were served subpoenas on the matter.
“If all text messages were produced in that ‘subpoena,’ Lively’s team knows the real facts of what actually happened and what didn’t happen. The truth is completely different than what is depicted in the complaint, and they know it,” Friedman said.
Meanwhile, Stefani’s lawyer countered that she is being made a “scapegoat” in the case for merely responding to a subpoena. “To deflect attention from Blake Lively’s disgraceful image, Justin Baldoni’s team is doubling down on its reputation by going after someone who had nothing to do with this ugly campaign,” said attorney Kristin Tahler.
on the case
In a nearly 80-page complaint filed last week, actor Blake Lively, who is married to Ryan Reynolds, accused It End’s With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni of forcing her into unwanted kissing scenes on set and stripping her naked. Accused of assault including watching. They also provided exhibits, including alleged text exchanges over emails between Baldoni’s publicists, which Blake claims were part of a campaign to tarnish his reputation.
Recently, Baldoni’s lawyer responded to the claims, saying that the leaked text used against him was taken “out of context”. In her sexual harassment complaint, Lively has alleged a deliberate smear campaign against her. The director’s attorney Brian Friedman criticized the Gossip Girl star for adopting “questionable PR tactics”.
“TAG PR operates like any other crisis management firm, when a client faces threats from two extremely powerful people with unlimited resources,” Brian Friedman said in a statement to US Weekly. Because audiences found Lively’s own actions, interviews and marketing during the promotional tour distasteful, and the media themselves systematically responded to what they picked up.
