Rebel Wilson hasn’t formally responded to the defamation lawsuit producers of The Deb hit her with on July 12, but she made her point of view very clear online today.
“Len Blavatnik, please stop funding and protecting Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden,” said the Jojo Rabbit actress in an Instagram story Wednesday of the producers of her directorial debut and their AI Film moneyman.
“Clearly these recent press articles and constant retaliations against me for speaking the truth on my small Australian movie are FALSE,” Wilson went on to say today. “All I did was tell the truth about these absolute fuckwits’ – now they launch a bogus defamation suit and bogus articles to inflict further harm.”
Or as Wilson’s bare knuckled fighting lawyer Bryan Freedman told Deadline today: “The number of people who back up Rebel’s experience is staggering.”
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Wilson first lashed out against the producing trio on July 10, accusing them of nixing a prime Toronto International Film Festival spot for The Deb. Wilson also alleged that Ghost, Cameron and Holden were guilty of inappropriate behavior towards the lead actress of the film”, as well as embezzlement and retaliation. The producers denied the accusations almost immediately, and then followed up with legal action in LA Superior Court.
“This lawsuit is about holding Rebel accountable for her attempts to bully Plaintiffs into conceding to her unreasonable demands by spreading vicious lies without regard for the irreparable damage her reckless words would cause on the hard-earned personal and professional reputations of Plaintiffs,” the filing from Brown Rudnick LLP’s Camille Vasquez (yes, of Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard fame) stated.
Less than a week later, not long after The Deb was confirmed as the closing night pic of TIFF 2024, Wilson brought litigator Freedman on board her legal team, as Deadline exclusively reported.
Upping the ante, Ghost, Cameron and Holden earlier this week amended their complaint with an everything and the kitchen sink approach. As a part of that they dredged up the dispute between Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen that saw portions of the former’s autobiography redacted in the UK and Wilson’s homeland of Australia under Britain’s loose libel laws. The producers also added in the updated filing that Wilson “demanded that Plaintiffs provide her a record label with an external music group (a demand which was well outside of Plaintiffs’ power to provide).”
Another addition to the initial filing was a claim that a lot of those stemmed from Wilson not receiving the writer’s credit on The Deb that she sought. Wilson, as she said today, says this is all totally “false.”
Waiting for the official response shoe to drop from attorney Freedman for Wilson, right now all that is on the docket is a case management hearing on November 26 before Judge Thomas D. Long. You wouldn’t lose money betting the case is going to see a lot more filings back and forth before that.
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