Justin Baldoni’s legal battle with Blake Lively has taken a bizarre new twist, with lawyers launching 14 new claims against his embattled former publicist, Stephanie Jones, on Thursday.

Baldoni’s, 41, movie company, Wayfarer, and his publicist for the film It Ends With Us, Jennifer Abel, both filed new claims including a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, breach of contract, defamation, and fraud against Jones.

They accused Jones of snooping on Abel’s private messages all the way until January this year, and plotting a ‘flagrant abuse of process’ with Lively, 37, to generate a subpoena from a ‘sham lawsuit’ to cover up Jones allegedly leaking messages to Lively.

Abel’s new filing also accused Jones of making ‘bizarre’ claims about Abel to her staff based on supposed information from ‘psychic readings.’

‘In one instance, Jones announced to Abel’s subordinates that she had learned through psychic readings that Abel was an alcoholic and a gambling addict.’ 

Abel added that the claim had ‘no basis in reality’, and instead ‘raised alarm about whether Jones was in the midst of a mental breakdown.’

Justin Baldoni’s, 41, legal battle with Blake Lively, 37, has taken a bizarre new twist, with lawyers launching 14 new claims against his embattled former publicist Stephanie Jones

Abel’s court document said: ‘Although Jones had always been volatile, she now appeared to be actively unraveling.’

‘On a different occasion, Jones announced, again per her psychic, that Abel would soon be pregnant with twins, humiliating and infuriating Abel, who—Jones knew—had struggled with fertility issues,’ the filing said.

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Jones’ lawyers sH๏τ back, calling the new claims ‘just distraction and noise’ and ‘a few debunked conspiracy theories’, in a scathing statement to DailyMail.com. 

The two bombshell documents filed in New York federal court totaled a combined 125 pages. 

The same night the documents were filed, Lively attended the TIME100 all-star gala in New York City, following her controversial inclusion on the publication’s Most Influential People list. She was joined by her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, at the event.

She sparked a furious response from Megyn Kelly, who told DailyMail.com Blake ‘shouldn’t be here.’

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

The latest filings in the legal war were made in Jones’ lawsuit against Abel.

After Lively and Baldoni’s legal battle exploded into the courts in December, Jones sued her former staffer Abel in January claiming that Abel plotted behind her back to steal Baldoni as a client, and falsely pinned an alleged smear campaign against Lively on Jones.

Trial-watchers were expecting a run-of-the mill filing this evening: a boilerplate denial of Jones’ claims.

But instead, Baldoni and Abel’s lawyer Bryan Freedman went on the offensive.

Abel’s filing accused Jones of stealing her personal data from her Jonesworks PR firm company phone when she announced she was quitting in July 2024.

Baldoni’s movie company Wayfarer and his publicist for the film It Ends With Us, Jennifer Abel, both filed new claims including a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, breach of contract, defamation, and fraud against Jones (pictured)

Abel’s new filing accuses Jones of ‘bizarre’ claims to staff, based on ‘psychic readings,’ including false accusations about Abel (pictured) being ‘an alcoholic and a gambling addict’, which Abel says caused alarm about Jones being ‘in the midst of a mental breakdown’ 

They accused Jones of snooping on Abel’s private messages all the way until January this year, and plotting a ‘flagrant abuse of process’ with Lively to generate a subpoena from a ‘sham lawsuit’ to cover up Jones allegedly leaking messages to Lively

She claimed Jones had illicit access to all her personal texts through her iCloud account – until as recently as January this year.

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

The claws were out in the filing, with Abel giving a damning description of Jones’ workplace.

She claimed morale at Jonesworks was ‘Abysmal’, that it ‘had a toxic workplace culture’, and staff ‘constantly gossiped and complained’.

Abel even claimed Jones would ‘regularly turn on deafening music so that she could berate her employees free from scrutiny.’

She quoted an unnamed former employee allegedly saying ‘I don’t think there was one day in the office that someone wasn’t crying.’

Abel claimed that when she left and Jones seized her company phone, the PR boss ‘had been sharing her private text messages with the entire office, mocking and disparaging her.’

The filing even claimed Jones ‘retained access to Abel’s iCloud for multiple months thereafter, monitoring and intercepting her private communications in real-time […] not only with her clients, fiancé, doctors, parents, and friends but also with the undersigned counsel.’

In their filings, both Abel and Wayfarer cited another twist in the case that was revealed by DailyMail.com last week.

Jones’ lawyers sH๏τ back, calling the new claims ‘just distraction and noise’ and ‘a few debunked conspiracy theories’, in a scathing statement to DailyMail.com

After Lively and Baldoni’s legal battle exploded into the courts in December, Jones sued her former staffer Abel in January claiming that Abel plotted behind her back to steal Baldoni as a client, and falsely pinned an alleged smear campaign against Lively on Jones 

And now Baldoni and Abel’s lawyer Bryan Freedman (pictured) went on the offensive. Abel’s filing accused Jones of stealing her personal data from her Jonesworks PR firm company phone when she announced she was quitting in July 2024

DailyMail.com uncovered how Lively used her little-known company Vanzan Inc. to quietly file a mysterious lawsuit against unnamed defendants in September last year, months before her public legal battle with Baldoni began 

She then used the lawsuit to secretly issue a subpoena to Jones for embarrᴀssing texts between Baldoni, Abel and his crisis PR Melissa Nathan, without alerting any of them. Public records for Vanzan Inc list a business address in New York City and its CEO as ‘Blake Reynolds’  

DailyMail.com uncovered how Lively used her little-known company Vanzan Inc. to quietly file a mysterious lawsuit against unnamed defendants in September last year, months before her public legal battle with Baldoni began.

She then used the lawsuit to secretly issue a subpoena to Jones for embarrᴀssing texts between Baldoni, Abel and his crisis PR Melissa Nathan, without alerting any of them.

The texts, allegedly showing a smear campaign plot against Lively, were used in her bombshell California legal complaint in December that kicked off the public legal war between the two Hollywood stars, and were shared with the New York Times in an explosive article the next day.

In their legal filing on Thursday night, Abel and Wayfarer slammed the tactic as a ‘sham lawsuit’ and ‘nothing more than a transparent ploy to obtain subpoena power.’

Abel called it a ‘flagrant abuse of process’.

‘Since there were no identifiable parties and no party had been served, the subpoenas were issued without notice, depriving Abel of any knowledge of the subpoena, much less the opportunity to object,’ her filing said.

She accused Jones of having already leaked texts with Lively’s team – and using the secret Vanzan lawsuit to create ‘a veneer of legitimacy’ and ‘plausible deniability’.

‘As a result of Jones’ malicious scheme, Abel’s life has been turned upside down,’ her filing said.

‘In an unimaginable invasion of Abel’s privacy and dignity, Jones and the Lively Parties now possess the full contents of Abel’s iCloud and email accounts, including her pH๏τos, text messages, and emails. Abel lives in fear of what is to come, given the vast troves of personal data in the possession of these hostile actors.’

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

The same night the documents were filed, Lively attended the TIME100 all-star gala in New York City, following her controversial inclusion on the publication’s Most Influential People list. She was joined by her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, at the event

Lively sparked a furious response from Megyn Kelly, who told DailyMail.com Blake ‘shouldn’t be here. Megyn accused her of ‘bastardiz[ing] Me Too allegations’ in her quest to sue Baldoni for Sєxual harᴀssment, which he has denied

In her December complaint, Lively claimed Baldoni had acted unprofessionally on the set of the domestic abuse movie It Ends With Us in which the pair starred and Baldoni also directed

As well as two counts of ‘Breach of contract’, they accused Jones of ‘breach of implied covenant’ and defamation.

Jones’ lawyers hit back with statements to DailyMail.com slamming the new claims as a distraction from what they say was a straightforward breach of contract by Abel.

Jones’ attorney Kristin Tahler accused Freedman of ‘reversing course, dropping previously touted claims, presenting zero new evidence’.

Tahler was referring to Abel’s previous stance that she had suffered ‘false imprisonment’, trapped at the Jonesworks office and intimidated into signing documents and giving up her company phone – a claim that did not appear in the new filings on Thursday.

‘This case will be decided on the mountain of evidence that demonstrates Wayfarer Studios and Ms. Abel deliberately breached their contracts with Jonesworks, which the defendants have conspicuously failed to rebut,’ fellow attorney Maaren Shah added.

‘The defendants’ weak attempt to ᴀssemble their own case against Ms. Jones amounts to nothing more than a few debunked conspiracy theories and media gimmicks that have no basis in fact or evidence.’

Until DailyMail.com’s discovery of the Vanzan lawsuit, the timeline of the courtroom battle between Lively and Baldoni appeared to begin in December, when she filed a California Civil Rights Department complaint and a federal lawsuit accusing him of Sєxual harᴀssment and retaliation.

Lively claimed he had acted unprofessionally on the set of the domestic abuse movie It Ends With Us in which the pair starred and Baldoni also directed.

She also accused Baldoni and his team of publicists of launching a smear campaign against her amid the release of the film last summer.

Baldoni filed a countersuit in January. Both parties deny the allegations against them.

The New York Times published an explosive story about the alleged Sєxual harᴀssment and smear campaign immediately after Lively’s California filing, referring extensively to the embarrᴀssing texts between Baldoni’s publicists obtained by Lively’s lawyers.

The paper reported that the texts included in Lively’s filing had been obtained by a subpoena – a curious detail that raised eyebrows at the time.

Freedman pointed out that he wasn’t aware of a subpoena and that none of his clients had been subpoenaed in the matter at that stage.

The latest salvo comes on top of months of claims and counterclaims over the fallout from It Ends With Us, with lawyers for both Lively and Baldoni publicly slugging it out.

The film at the heart of the feud, based on the 2016 bestseller by Colleen Hoover, was released in August and was a box office hit 

Many of the revelations that have emerged have proved highly embarrᴀssing, not least Lively memorably comparing herself to Game of Thrones character Khaleesi and referring to husband Ryan and pal Taylor Swift as ‘my dragons’.

Some of her more lurid claims also came under scrutiny, not least her ᴀssertation that Baldoni had Sєxually harᴀssed her by nuzzling her neck during a scene and commenting on how she smells – none of which was recorded due to microphones being turned off.

But footage first published DailyMail.com revealed that it did have audio which picked up a full account of the conversation and revealed that it had been about the smell of Lively’s fake tan.

She also faced criticism for serving legal papers to Baldoni’s team in the middle of the devastating wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles in early January.

Other revelations from the initial complaint included Lively’s alleged failure to read the novel on which It Ends With Us is based until long after filming had begun.

Baldoni’s cross-complaint also revealed that he and his family had been forced to spend the premiere of It Ends With Us sitting in a basement because Lively refused to allow him to be in the same room as her.