Summary
- Leaked audio obtained by The Hollywood Reporter captures Rebel Wilson’s crisis PR team allegedly plotting to falsely brand producer Amanda Ghost as a Hollywood “madame” and sex trafficker.
- Digital fixer Jed Wallace and publicist Melissa Nathan — the same operatives tied to Justin Baldoni’s smear campaign against Blake Lively — are the central figures in the recording.
- Ghost’s lawyer Camille Vasquez says Wilson was not just involved in the smear websites, but was “the driving force behind them,” directly contradicting Wilson’s sworn testimony.
Behind closed doors, Rebel Wilson‘s crisis PR team allegedly discussed plans to create anonymous websites accusing the producer of The Deb of sex trafficking as part of a smear campaign solicited by the actress herself. And now there’s audio to prove it — or at least strongly suggest it.
In a recording obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, digital fixer Jed Wallace instructed top entertainment publicist Melissa Nathan to assert, without evidence, that producer Amanda Ghost is a “madame” whose work involves procuring young women for wealthy and powerful men. The tape is … a lot.
“So basically what we need to do is, we need to create a path where we expose Amanda Ghost,” Wallace said in the recording. “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.”
That would be billionaire Len Blavatnik, the owner of Ghost’s production company AI Film, for context. Wilson has never provided any evidence to support these claims.
Wallace makes his reasoning for the severity of the accusations crystal clear in the tape: “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.”
So how did we get here? Wilson accused the producers of her directorial debut, The Deb, of inappropriate behavior and embezzlement back in 2024. The producers — Ghost, Gregory Cameron, and Vince Holden — immediately countersued for defamation. That lawsuit is still very much alive.
The website allegedly created by Wilson’s team, which has since been deleted, was called “Amanda Ghost Is a Destroyer of Worlds” and accused Ghost of being the “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell” who “turned full pimp, reinventing herself as a theatrical producer alongside her husband while really procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy.” No, we’re not kidding.
The names in this story will feel familiar if you’ve been following any other celebrity legal drama lately. Jed Wallace and Melissa Nathan are the same crisis PR operatives accused of running a smear campaign against Blake Lively on behalf of Justin Baldoni. Bryan Freedman, referenced in the recording as being involved in the Wilson plan, is Baldoni’s current attorney in that case, and was Wilson’s lawyer at the time the smear operation was allegedly being organized.
It’s the same playbook, allegedly running on repeat.
A separate text chain from August 2024, cited in court filings, shows Nathan telling a colleague, “So basically, Rebel wants one of those sites. It can be really really harsh. And then link it to Jed’s voice thing.”
Oh, but it gets worse. At one point, Wilson directly messaged her PR team to express frustration: “You were supposed to get the negative information out about Ghost and have failed to do that,” she wrote, according to a court filing.
Nathan’s PR shop, The Agency Group, is no small operation, either. The firm has also worked with Drake and Johnny Depp.
As for Wilson’s sworn denials? Ghost’s attorney isn’t buying any of it. Ghost’s lawyer Camille Vasquez — yes, the same Camille Vasquez from the Depp-Heard trial — said in a statement, “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.”
Wilson’s current legal team offered a carefully worded response. Allyson Thompson, a lawyer for the actress, stated that “Freedman no longer represents Ms. Wilson and hasn’t for some time,” adding that Case “never personally spoke with Ms. Wilson” and only received directions from Wallace regarding the website itself.
Wilson, Wallace, Nathan, and Freedman all declined to comment to THR on the recording.
Wallace’s lawyer, Chip Babcock of Jackson Walker, issued a statement saying, “The judge in the ‘It Ends With Us’ case sealed the audio file to prevent exactly this sort of out-of-context speculation and accordingly he cannot comment directly about it, including whether the audio file is authentic.”
A jury trial in Ghost’s defamation lawsuit against Wilson is tentatively scheduled for October 2026. Given what just dropped, that trial is going to be absolutely unmissable.
