‘Rebel wants one of those’: Court documents suggest Wilson ordered websites attacking producer

For two years, a Hollywood producer has been arguing in court that actor Rebel Wilson hired a team to destroy her reputation by spreading lies about her on the internet.

New documents – obtained by lawyers for the producer, Amanda Ghost, and filed in the case in Los Angeles on Tuesday – appear to show that Wilson ordered and paid for the creation of anonymous websites that disparaged Ghost. According to the documents, Wilson used the same professionals who Blake Lively alleged directed Justin Baldoni’s online campaign against her.

Allyson Thompson, a lawyer for Wilson, called Tuesday’s motion “one-sided and thus incomplete.” She added, “There are two sides to every story, and Ms Wilson looks forward to telling her side at the trial in this disputed matter.”

Wilson, a comedic actor, solidified her slapstick brand of humour in films such as Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect . Ghost, a successful producer and the Grammy-nominated songwriter behind hits like Beyoncé and Shakira’s Beautiful Liar and James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful , was one of the producers of Australian film The Deb , Wilson’s directorial debut.

During the rollout of the film in July 2024, it was clear there had been conflict on set.

Wilson took to Instagram and told her nearly 11 million followers that Ghost and the other producers had embezzled funds and were trying to block the film’s debut at the Toronto Film Festival.

Ghost sued her, claiming that Wilson was defaming her because she did not grant Wilson screenwriting and songwriting credits on the film. Wilson countersued, accusing Ghost and other producers of embezzlement, breach of contract and sexual misconduct.

At the height of their public spat, a website surfaced that disparaged Ghost, who has Spanish and Indian heritage. The website called her “the Indian Ghislaine Maxwell” and a “con artist, a thief and a pimp” who worked “procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy”.

After the website appeared in August 2024, social media posts and comments in online forums about Ghost shifted, her lawyer, Camille Vasquez, said. Her achievements were buried and, instead, the sex-trafficking accusations and offensive descriptions became the focus, Vasquez said.

A second website contained the same language, and links had been emailed to people close to Ghost, Vasquez said. References to the sites were posted “thousands of times on social media,” Ghost claims in her lawsuit, in “a targeted campaign” that was “openly defamatory and clearly calculated to cause harm.”

Wilson presented the same websites as evidence in her counterclaim to that lawsuit, using them in an attempt to show that Ghost had brought bad publicity upon herself.

“Amanda Ghost has accumulated numerous enemies over the years. In fact, a website has emerged that exposes some of her darker dealings , ” the counterclaim reads.