Rebel Wilson’s PR Team Caught Plotting to Paint Producer as Sex Trafficker

A devastating leaked recording has plunged Rebel Wilson’s legal war with the producers of her film The Deb into explosive new territory. The audio, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, allegedly captures the actress’s crisis public relations team plotting to destroy producer Amanda Ghost’s reputation by painting her as a sex trafficker who procured young women for a billionaire. The recording threatens to upend Wilson’s denials and shift the entire focus of a sprawling, multi-continent legal battle.

In the private conversation, digital fixer Jed Wallace instructs top entertainment publicist Melissa Nathan on a strategy to take down Ghost. “We need to create a path where we expose Amanda Ghost as the new Heidi Fleiss,” Wallace says, referencing the infamous Hollywood madam from the 1990s. He elaborates that the attack must be severe: “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”.

Wallace specifically ties Ghost to billionaire Len Blavatnik, whose company AI Film financed The Deb. “Amanda Ghost is like the new Heidi Fleiss. Like, she masquerades as the reason why she sucks so bad at music is because she’s actually getting hookers for Blavatnik, right, and that’s what she does,” Wallace states in the recording.

The conversation also references Bryan Freedman, the high-powered Hollywood lawyer representing Justin Baldoni in his ongoing battle with Blake Lively. Freedman was Wilson’s counsel at the time.

The plot allegedly became reality. A now-deleted website called “Amanda Ghost is a Destroyer of Worlds” appeared, accusing the producer of leaving her failing music career behind by “reinventing herself as a theatrical producer alongside her husband while really procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy”.

Court filings reveal the damning paper trail. In an August 2024 exchange, Nathan texted a colleague: “So basically, Rebel wants one of those sites… It can be really really harsh. And then link it to the Jed’s voice thing.” That copy, allegedly drafted by Wilson’s production company Camp Sugar, was revised to match Wallace’s instructions .

Katie Case, a former employee of Nathan’s firm, testified in a deposition that she made “cosmetic changes” to the copy allegedly drafted by Camp Sugar and “included the specific language that had been requested by Jed in the voice note.” She admitted she had no evidence corroborating the claims and wasn’t aware of anyone researching the accusations.

Wilson has repeatedly and “unequivocally” denied any involvement in conceiving, planning, or creating the websites, both on television and in sworn legal testimony. But the new evidence tells a different story.

According to court filings, at one point Wilson demanded her public relations team distribute adversarial coverage of Ghost as the feud worsened. “You were supposed to get the negative information out about Ghost and have failed to do that,” she wrote in a message.

Ghost’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, didn’t mince words in response: “Rebel Wilson has repeatedly denied any involvement in the creation of the smear websites, not just on television but in her sworn legal testimony. 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 smear campaign allegations are the latest salvo in a devastating legal battle that began in 2024. Wilson publicly accused The Deb producers, Ghost, Gregor Cameron, and Vince Holden, of “inappropriate behavior” toward lead actress Charlotte MacInnes and embezzling funds from the film’s budget.

The producers sued Wilson for defamation. MacInnes herself filed a court statement saying she was “deeply disturbed” by Wilson’s accusations and denied witnessing or experiencing any misconduct by Ghost.

Wilson countersued, but in January 2026, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Long gutted her case, striking most of her claims as “immaterial and abusive” and lacking specific facts. “That’s not the kind of stuff that I will be letting in at trial,” the judge said.

Ghost filed her own cross-complaint, accusing Wilson of hiring “PR professionals to launch a shockingly low and racially charged attack on another professional woman”.

The players involved have drawn comparisons to the ongoing Blake Lively-Justin Baldino legal saga. Wallace, Nathan, and Freedman all worked on Baldoni’s crisis PR team, which is currently accused of smearing Lively. Lively’s legal team has described Wallace’s work as specializing in “confidential and ‘untraceable’ campaigns” across social media platforms.

Ghost’s lawyer framed the conduct as a profound betrayal of legal ethics. “Secretly engineering false or misleading narratives to intimidate, discredit or pressure an opponent crosses the line from zealous advocacy into misconduct,” Vasquez said. “When a professionally orchestrated smear campaign is weaponized in litigation, it distorts the legal process itself”.

The leaked audio represents a seismic shift in the case. With Wilson’s offensive claims largely dismissed, the focus now turns to her conduct, and the serious questions about the source of smear websites deploying “racist, false and abusive content” against Ghost. A jury trial has been tentatively scheduled for October.

Wilson, Freedman, Nathan, and Wallace all declined to comment.