Rebel Wilson’s Team Accused of Smear Campaign for ‘The Deb’

It did not finish with It Ends With Us. The identical crew behind Justin Baldoni’s alleged smear marketing campaign towards Blake Lively is now being accused of utilizing comparable ways towards producer Amanda Ghost on behalf of their shopper Rebel Wilson. Ghost and Wilson labored collectively on the 2026 movie The Debwhich has been watched in authorized drama for two years now. In new leaked audio, Wilson’s crew, together with digital fixer Jed Wallace, leisure publicist Melissa Nathan, and her then-lawyer Bryan Freedman, might be heard creating methods to wreck Ghost’s credibility.

To get caught up on all ins and outs, under, discover an explainer of what’s going on with the massive drama surrounding a bit film.

The Deb is a musical movie that might be launched this April in Australia. Directed by Rebel Wilson, it’s an adaptation of an Australian stage present of the identical identify. It has been surrounded by torrential controversy since its premiere two years in the past at Toronto International Film Festival and has but to be launched within the United States.

In July 2024, Rebel Wilson posted to video accusing the movie’s producers, together with Amanda Ghost, Gregory Cameron, and Vince Holden, of blocking The Deb from premiering at TIFF. “Why are they saying this?” Wilson mentioned. “Why are they stopping it from premiering at Toronto? Well, this dates back to October of last year, where I discovered bad behavior by these business partners…inappropriate behavior toward the lead actress of the film; embezzling funds from the film’s budget, which we really needed because we’re a small movie.” Ultimately, regardless of the behind-the-scenes points, the musical was nonetheless selected as TIFF’s closing-night feature and premiered on the pageant.

In response to Wilson’s video, the producers mentioned that “RW’s allegations are false, defamatory, and disappointing.” Two days after the video was posted, the producers sued Wilson for defamation in a swimsuit that claimed Wilson abandoned the movie for weeks at a time and tried to take a writing credit score from screenwriter Hannah Reilly, who would go towards the choice of the Australian Writers Guild, per The Hollywood Reporter. Wilson was as a substitute set to obtain an “additional writing by” credit score. Wilson then countersued and accused Ghost of sexually harassing the movie’s star Charlotte MacInnes, saying she “forced MacInnes to live in her Bondi Beach penthouse apartment with her,” in response to THRand “took a shower and a bath with MacInnes.”

By May 2025, Wilson had gone rogue. When MacInnes, who denied in court that Ghost sexually harassed herattended the Cannes Film Festival and was seen on a yacht, Wilson took to The Deb Instagram account to publish disparaging feedback about her star. “Charlotte MacInnes in a culturally inappropriate Indian outfit on Len Blavatnik’s luxury yacht in Cannes — ironically singing a song from a movie that will never get released because of her lies and support for the people blocking the film’s release,” Wilson wrotehowever Variety Australia. “So glad you bought your document deal Charlotte on the expense of the 300 individuals who labored on The Deb and actually wanna see it launched,” she added in one other publish. She additionally continued to assert that Ghost sexually harassed MacInnes.

“Since the beginning, this dispute has been about one thing and one thing only: Rebel Wilson’s obsession with taking credit where none is deserved, at the great expense of young, talented women, whom she tears down, all the while, masquerading to be their champion,” the producers’ lawyer Camille Vasquez mentioned in an announcement to Variety Australia. That August, MacInnes sued Wilson for defamation too, the sydney Morning Herald reported. “This was her first lead role in a film and you cruelled her professional reputation before she could even enjoy the benefit of the success of the film as the lead actress,” MacInnes’s lawyer wrote.

Additionally, Ghost and Holden’s firm, AI Films, sued Wilson individually in Australia, per Guardian. The swimsuit claimed that Wilson deliberately blocked the sale of The Deb in hopes of devaluing Wilson’s firm, Camp Sugar, to the purpose the place AI Films would promote its stake. “As the producer, director, and co-star who nurtured a project called The Deb for three years from a three-page idea into a gorgeous feature film,” Wilson responded on Instagram“I want nothing more than to have this film released and have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to get this to happen.”

In the alleged audio, meant to color producer Amanda Ghost as a intercourse trafficker, fixer Jed Wallace is chatting with publicist Melissa Nathan, who works for the Agency Group, and refers to Wilson’s lawyer Bryan Freedman, a robust lawyer. “What we need to do is create a path where we expose Amanda Ghost as the new Heidi Fleiss“,” Wallace says in the alleged recording. “The reason why she sucks so bad at music is that she’s actually getting hookers for [Warner Music owner Len] Blavatnik. And that’s what she does; she’s an absolute madame, and that’s why she’s so lethal, blah blah blah.” In the audio, he provides that “We can’t just do, like, ‘Oh, she’s a bitch, she sucks.’ It’s, like, it’s got to be really, really heavy and connected to something that heavy.”

“Rebel Wilson has repeatedly denied any involvement in the creation of the smear websites — not just on television but in her sworn legal testimony,” Ghost’s lawyer Vasquez mentioned in an announcement to THR. “We, however, had long suspected that she not only contributed to the malicious sites but that she was the driving force behind them. The evidence we have submitted to the court in California supports that conclusion.”

The since-deleted web site in query was referred to as “Amanda Ghost Is a Destroyer of Worlds.” “Failing in music she turned full pimp, reinventing herself as a theatrical producer alongside her husband while really procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy,” the positioning learn. This follows swimsuit with claims Camp Sugar allegedly despatched to the Agency Group that referred to Ghost as “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell.”

One of the signature options of the It Ends With Us case is the alleged smear marketing campaign that Justin Baldoni ran towards Blake Lively, which was uncovered in a December 2024 New York Times report. Many of the names on Wilson’s crew are related to Baldoni’s facet, together with Nathan, who’s quoted within the Times he uncovered himself as saying, “You know we can bury anyone.” Jed Nathan and Bryan Freedman are additionally quoted in that Times piece. Ghost’s crew is deliberately drawing the connection between their alleged strategies on the It Ends With Us case and what they could have probably achieved for Wilson towards Ghost. Baldoni did end up singing the New York Times over the reporting achieved across the alleged smear marketing campaign, however the case was dismissed in June 2025. It by no means ends with It Ends With Ushuh?

Neither Wilson nor his crew have but commented on the surfaced audio.