In fact, Abel was still at Jones’ company for part of the It Ends With Us set drama before leaving to start her own company (and taking Baldoni and his studio with her). It was evidently a bad breakup,

Justin Baldoni hired a PR crisis firm, Jonesworks, to “bury” Blake Lively. Jonesworks is owned by Stephanie Jones, who is married to Jason Hodes, an agent at WME — the same firm that represents Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Jonesworks also represented Lively and Reynolds at one point, though not during the smear campaign orchestrated by Baldoni.

( NewsNation) — Actor Justin Baldoni has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him of defamation and breach of contract days after being sued by actress Blake Lively for sexual harassment and launching a covert smear campaign. Baldoni former publicist Steph Jones sued him, his production company and his current publicists this week.