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Justin Baldoni's ex-publicist Stephanie Jones claims she was legally obligated to turn over texts to Blake Lively


Justin Baldoni's former publicist has vehemently denied 'leaking' text messages to Blake Lively that purportedly showed his team waging a smear campaign against the actress.

Stephanie Jones, whose company Jonesworks PR represented Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios throughout the production of It Ends With Us, hit back at the actor's recent defamation claims and accused him of 'brazenly' breaching his contract, in new legal documents filed in New York on Thursday. 'They may wish it weren't the case, but the fact remains that Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios and Ms. Abel brazenly and repeatedly breached their contractual obligations to Ms. Jones and Jonesworks, shamelessly framing her as the culprit behind the smear campaign they themselves created targeting Ms. Lively. In a statement released to DailyMail.com after the actor's latest filing, 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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