Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson has come under the spotlight in an audio clip from her crisis PR team discussing plans to launch an alleged “smear campaign” targeting movie producer Amanda Ghost, “The Deb.”
About the alleged smear campaign
In an ongoing legal battle, the actor’s PR crisis team reportedly considered creating anonymous websites accusing Ghost of “sex trafficking” and “procuring young women for rich and powerful men.” A recording obtained by The Hollywood Reporter shows digital strategist Jed Wallace telling entertainment publicist Melissa Nathan how to lay serious allegations against Ghost and that their campaign can’t do “oh, it’s crazy, it’s wonderful.”..” He goes on to add: “It must be really, really heavy and it’s related to that heavy.”Nathan’s The Agency Group is said to be a leading PR firm in the entertainment industry, whose clients include Drake and Johnny Deppand has worked frequently with attorney Bryan Freedman. According to the report, Freedman was not only Wilson’s counsel at the time, due to his involvement in the “It Ends With Us” legal saga.
The Justin Baldoni the link
In another case, actress Blake Lively filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against attorney Wallace, Nathan and Bryan Freedman, alleging a coordinated advertising campaign related to the production of the film ‘It Ends With Us’, directed and starring Justin Baldoni.In response to the latest allegations, Wallace’s reps said: “The judge in the ‘It Ends With Us’ case sealed the audio file to prevent exactly that kind of out-of-context speculation.” In his statement, he also denied being involved in a smear campaign against Lively “or anyone else”.
Link to the Johnny Depp case
Ghost’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, who also represented Johnny Depp in his legal battle against Amber Heard, said the evidence contradicts Wilson’s involvement in the alleged smear websites.“Rebel Wilson has repeatedly denied any involvement in the creation of the smear websites, not only on television, but in his legal affidavit,” Vasquez said in a statement. “We have long suspected that he was not only a contributor to malicious sites, but a driver of them.”
