In private, Rebel Wilson’s crisis PR team outlined plans to launch bogus sites accusing The Deb’s producer of sex trafficking as part of a purported smear campaign that the actress had asked for.
In an audio file obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the digital fixer, Jed Wallace, instructed the leading entertainment publicist, Melissa Nathan, to claim, without proof, that producer Amanda Ghost is a “madame” whose job is to find young women for prominent and affluent men.
The recording is as follows:
“We can’t just do, like, oh, she’s a bitch, she sucks,” Wallace adds. “It’s, like, it’s got to be really, really heavy and connected to something that heavy.”
During the private discussion, Wallace mentions that Wilson’s then-counsel, Hollywood power lawyer Bryan Freedman, was involved in the scheme.
The It Ends With Us legal drama, in which Freedman plays a major role, and a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by former Baldoni publicist Stephanie Jones against Baldoni and his production firm, Wayfarer, are the reasons behind the discovery of correspondence incriminating Wallace, Nathan, and Freedman.
The recording supports the conclusion that sites containing libelous allegations against Ghost were controlled by Nathan’s The Agency Group, a leading PR firm in the entertainment industry whose clients include Drake and Johnny Depp, and that Freedman has regularly collaborated with The Agency Group.
The original purpose of the recording was to transmit Wallace’s instructions to the previous TAG vice president, Katie Case, who was not there. She was instructed to review a document outlining the final charges the website imposed on the producer.
Court documents list Wilson’s production business, Camp Sugar, as the document’s creator.
“Rebel Wilson has repeatedly denied any involvement in the creation of the smear websites — not just on television but in her sworn legal testimony,” added Camille Vasquez, lawyer of Ghost. “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 now-deleted website, Amanda Ghost is a Destroyer of Worlds, claims to have been published by a whistleblower. It said, “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.”
Similar wording can be found in the memo that Camp Sugar allegedly supplied to TAG, including a reference to Ghost as the “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell” and a claim that she is “notorious for withholding artist’s [sic] work from release.”
