Charlotte MacInnes, the star of Rebel Wilson’s unreleased film The Deb, has accused the Aussie actress of launching a smear campaign against one of the movie’s producers.
The allegations appear in a defamation claim lodged by MacInnes — who played the lead role in the musical comedy — in the Federal Court.
Per The Sydney Morning Herald, Wilson is accused of enlisting an American publicist, Melissa Nathan of The Agency Group, to publish websites about The Deb’s producer Amanda Ghost.
The websites were allegedly orchestrated to call Ghost “the Indian Ghislaine Maxwell” and refer to her as a “full pimp” who was “procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy”.
The documents are said to include a text exchange between Nathan and her publicist colleague Katie Case in which the pair discuss Wilson allegedly wanting a website that could refer to “Russian oglivarchs [sic] and making [Ghost] a madam basically lol”.
Case allegedly replied, “Oh my god lol ok this one will be fun”.
Wilson denied any involvement in a smear campaign or in the creation of websites against Ghost in a statement to SMH, claiming it was her who was “instrumental” in having the sites removed.
“In fact my legal team was instrumental in getting these sites taken down by providing the other side with a way of doing this – claiming unauthorised use of a photograph of ME,” Wilson said.
It adds to the ongoing legal troubles that have circled The Deb since 2024, when Wilson claimed the movie was delayed a premiere because of her allegations of misconduct on the set of the film.
The producers then denied those claims and sued Wilson for defamation, before MacInnes alleged that Wilson fabricated claims of sexual assault relating to her time filming The Deb.
It all culminated in MacInnes reportedly issuing a concerns notice to Wilson over her statements in August, claiming they “cruelled her professional reputation”.
For her part, Wilson said in July the lawsuit aimed at The Deb is “baseless” and “makes no sense”.
The Deb follows MacInnes’ Maeve and her cousin Taylah (Natalie Abbott) as students preparing for their school’s debutante ball.
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