A new Justin Baldoni lawsuit filed Friday claims his former publicist, Stephanie Jones, maliciously passed on data from a former employee’s phone, including text messages to Blake Lively’s team. An attorney for Baldoni states that this set off a “catastrophic sequence of events violating the most basic of privacy rights.

After 24 hours of dismissal motions, accusations of doubling crossing, stay denials and more, the multi-pronged legal trench warfare between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has gone to Def Con One – at least according to Bryan Freedman.

Blake Lively’s team has filed to dismiss Justin Baldoni’s defamation case against her. The new motion describes his defamation case as “a blunt public relations instrument designed to further the Wayfarer Parties’ sinister campaign to ‘bury’ and ‘destroy’ Ms.