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Justin Baldoni adds ex-publicist Stephanie Jones to $400million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively
Justin Baldoni has added his former publicist to his blockbuster lawsuit against Blake Lively, claiming she turned over a phone containing sensitive messages to the actress.
The text messages in question are at the heart of Lively's case against the 41-year-old actor and director, and were featured prominently in the sympathetic New York Times story that ran last December and first aired the 37-year-old's sex assault claims against him. Baldoni's legal team says they were doctored and taken out of context, with the It Ends With Us actor's lawyers making the complete exchanges public as part of his $400million countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds. In a statement released to DailyMail.com, Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman said: 'It is undeniable that Stephanie Jones initiated this catastrophic sequence of events by violating the most basic of privacy rights, as well as any remaining trust her clients held.
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