The star of Rebel Wilson’s unreleased film The Deb has accused the Australian actor-turned-director of enlisting an American publicist to launch a smear campaign against one of the film’s producers in a defamation claim lodged in the Federal Court.

Documents in a case filed by actor Charlotte MacInnes allege Wilson requested in August last year that American publicist Melissa Nathan of The Agency Group publish websites that called producer Amanda Ghost “the Indian Ghislaine Maxwell” who had “turned full pimp” after failing in music, and was “procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy”.

The documents include a text exchange between Nathan and Katie Case from the same company that said Wilson wanted a site that could refer to “Russian oglivarchs [sic] and making he

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