has been accused in court papers of being involved in smear websites targeting the producers of her embattled film The Deb, after they hit the actress with a defamation lawsuit.
The Pitch Perfect star, 46, was sued by the film's producers Gregor Cameron, Vince Holden and Amanda Ghost after she made a string of accusations about the film's troubled production in County Superior Court.
A transcript, recently filed in support of further disclosure in the legal dispute, claims Katherine Case, a public relations Vice President for US-based, The Agency Group, suggested Rebel was allegedly behind a scheme to create websites to smear Ghost.
The original complaint filed against Ghost for breach of contract contained hyperlinks to the amandaghost.com and amandaghostsucks.com websites, according to the court documents.
In the transcript of a deposition given to Ghost's lawyer Samuel Moniz, Case stated that her boss at the public relations group, Melissa Nathan, said: 'Rebel wants one of those sites.'
Case testified that she replied: 'Okay. Should be a mixture of that document that I think Carolina pulled about Amanda Ghost, or the intern pulled note and this.'
Rebel Wilson has been accused in court papers of being involved in smear websites targeting the producers of her embattled film The Deb, after they hit the actress with a defamation lawsuit (Rebel pictured in 2025)
Case then claimed that Nathan sent her a Microsoft Word document entitled 'Amanda Ghost website.doc,' with metadata submitted to the court showing it was created by and last edited by Camp Sugar, which is Rebel's production company.
An exhibit submitted to the court in support of the motion for further disclosure, showed a screenshot which shows the word document in question, with its 'last saved by' shown to be Camp Sugar.
In the court papers, Case went on to state that she sent an edited version of the word document back to Melissa.
The document read: 'This website is dedicated to telling the world the truth about Amanda Ghost who has maliciously tried to destroy the lives of countless artists.
'She is the Indian Ghislaine Maxwell, whose only friend in the world appears seems to be convicted felon Boy George.'
A voice note was also tendered to the court from Jed Wallace, a Texas-based crisis communications consultant which also links Rebel to the commissioning of the website.
Another exhibit submitted to the court included screenshots of text messages between Wilson and Carolina Hurley, an employee at The Agency Group working with Rebel.
They appear to show the actress expressing her upset that there was little 'negative information' circulating about Ghost.
'I am obviously very upset by this. You were supposed to get the negative information out about Ghost and have failed to do that and now instead Amanda has yet again managed to get multiple articles out spreading the absolute false narrative that is in their baseless defamation suit,' the message read.
The court papers state that Rebel has denied being behind the two alleged smear websites that targeted Ghost.
Allyson Thompson, partner at HKP, lawyers acting for Wilson in in US, said: ‘The testimony of Ms Case is clear that she does not have any actual evidence, nor can she testify that in fact Rebel Wilson wanted a whistleblower website created as against Ms. Ghost.
‘Ms. Case testified that she never spoke with Ms. Wilson, nor could she testify with any accuracy whom actually created the copy in which she edited. Instead, she testified that she received information from a Jed Wallace as to what should be on the websites, not from Ms. Wilson.
‘Ms. Case testified that she was told by Ms. Nathan “that Rebel wants one of those sites,” but as established by her testimony, Ms. Nathan did not tell her that Rebel specifically told her that she wanted a smear site or what site she allegedly wanted.
‘Importantly, Ms. Case did not testify that it was Ms. Wilson specifically that wanted “one of those sites.” Also important to note is her response to my query that anyone could “author” a document and call themselves, “Camp Sugar.” The screen shot of alleged “meta data” was not confirmed by Ms. Case to be actual meta data and clearly no expert has opined in any form or fashion that it was Ms. Wilson who actually created the alleged “copy.”
‘Ms. Wilson cannot comment on who she believes might have greenlighted the creation of the whistleblower websites as against Ms. Ghost as this is active litigation, however, she is prepared to testify at trial as to who she believes was behind the intent, creation and substantive content of the websites. Katherine Case’s deposition assists in that regard.’
Melissa Nathan has already found herself at the centre of Justin Baldoni's high-profile legal battle with Blake Lively.
The Gossip Girl star claimed her co-star on It Ends With Us waged a negative publicity campaign against her with his PR team, consisting of both Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel. They have all denied the accusations.
Rebel previously made public accusations about embezzlement, sexual harassment of the lead actor of her film Charlotte MacInnes, bullying over the sexual misconduct claims, and obstruction of the film's release.
Those producers – Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden – have then gone on to sue the star for alleged defamation in California.
The Pitch Perfect star denied the allegations and responded with her own lawsuit in which she doubled down on the claims of a 'troubling pattern of illicit, egregious behaviours, including theft, bullying and sexual misconduct'.
In January, a Los Angeles judge this week removed several pages of Wilson's complaint that accused producer Ghost of a long history of 'seedy practices and unethical behaviour,' according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The publication reported that Judge Thomas Long said many of Wilson's claims, including an allegation that the producer stole 'partial ownership' of the James Blunt song You're Beautiful, were irrelevant to the case.
'That's not the kind of stuff I would be letting in at trial,' the judge said.
'We do not have time to say, 'Let's go back to the beginning of time, when this person first started their career.''
The judge also dismissed Wilson's allegations as 'debris that just obscures the real issues in the case'.
The publication reported that much of Wilson's complaint stemmed from allegations that Ghost had made promises to the actress to secure a commitment to partner with production companies AI Film and Unigram on the yet-to-be released movie.
The star has been sued by the film's producers after she made a string of accusations about its troubled production (pictured with stars Natalie Abbott, and Stevie Jean)
The alleged promises included a shared writing credit, a record label deal with Warner, an option to sign Australian artists to the label, and ownership rights to the film's soundtrack.
However, Judge Long dismissed the claims, concluding that Wilson had failed to allege sufficient details about 'how, when, where, and by what means the representations were made'.
Wilson's lawyers requested an opportunity to amend the complaint, but the judge said that they had failed to explain any of the proposed amendments.
Six of Wilson's claims were dismissed, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, historical misconduct allegations, and breach of contract.
The ruling concluded that Ghost, who still faces a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress along with the other producers, wasn't a party to the oral agreement between Wilson, AI Film and Unigram.
The producers also moved to strike allegations of Ghost's 'extensive history of seedy practices and unethical behaviour', her 'highly inappropriate relationship with MacInnes, as well as Cameron's 'propensity for physical intimidation and coercive tactics.'
Despite Wilson claiming the allegations were relevant to the case, the court disagreed.
It comes after Wilson suffered a blow in the legal battle against the companies headed by her co-producers following a ruling in Australia.
'There is valid concern that not injuncting part of [Wilson's] cross-complaint risks conflicting findings or inconsistent judgments between the Californian and NSW courts,' Justice Elisabeth Peden wrote in her judgement in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
The blocked claims include allegations that Cameron and Holden embezzled $900,000 from the film's budget. It also alleges Wilson was forced to sign contracts under duress.
However, the court upheld Wilson's ability to pursue other legal action in California.
The US case is one of several separate lawsuits that have erupted after filming wrapped in 2023.
Lead actor MacInnes has sued Wilson in the Federal Court over social media posts which claimed the film's star revealed she was subjected to sexual harassment.
MacInnes' denials that any sexual misconduct took place have not deterred Wilson, who has stood by the claims.
