It didn’t end with It Ends With Us. The same team behind Justin Baldoni’s alleged smear campaign against Blake Lively is now being accused of using similar tactics against producer Amanda Ghost on behalf of their client Rebel Wilson. Ghost and Wilson worked together on the 2026 film The Deb, which has been mired in legal drama for two years now. In new leaked audio, Wilson’s team, including digital fixer Jed Wallace, entertainment publicist Melissa Nathan, and her then-lawyer Bryan Freedman, can be heard developing ways to ruin Ghost’s credibility.

To get caught up on all ins and outs, below, find an explainer of what is going on with the big drama surrounding a little movie.

The Deb is a musical film that will be released this April in Australia. Directed by Rebel Wilson, it is an adaptation of an Australian stage show of the same name. It has been surrounded by torrential controversy since its premiere two years ago at Toronto International Film Festival and has yet to be released in the United States.

In July 2024, Rebel Wilson posted a video accusing the film’s producers, including Amanda Ghost, Gregory Cameron, and Vince Holden, of blocking The Deb from premiering at TIFF. “Why are they saying this?” Wilson said. “Why are they stopping it from premiering at Toronto? Well, this dates back to October of last year, where I discovered bad behavior by these business partners … inappropriate behavior toward the lead actress of the film; embezzling funds from the film’s budget, which we really needed because we’re a small movie.” Ultimately, despite the behind-the-scenes issues, the musical was still selected as TIFF’s closing-night feature and premiered at the festival.

In response to Wilson’s video, the producers said that “RW’s allegations are false, defamatory, and disappointing.” Two days after the video was posted, the producers sued Wilson for defamation in a suit that claimed Wilson deserted the film for weeks at a time and attempted to take a writing credit from screenwriter Hannah Reilly, which would go against the decision of the Australian Writers Guild, per The Hollywood Reporter. Wilson was instead set to receive an “additional writing by” credit. Wilson then countersued and accused Ghost of sexually harassing the film’s star Charlotte MacInnes, saying she “forced MacInnes to live in her Bondi Beach penthouse apartment with her,” according to THR, and “took a shower and a bath with MacInnes.”

By May 2025, Wilson had gone rogue. When MacInnes, who denied in court that Ghost sexually harassed her, attended the Cannes Film Festival and was seen on a yacht, Wilson took to The Deb Instagram account to post disparaging comments about her star. “Charlotte MacInnes in a culturally inappropriate Indian outfit on Len Blavatnik’s luxury yacht in Cannes — ironically singing a song from a movie that will never get released because of her lies and support for the people blocking the film’s release,” Wilson wrote, per Variety Australia. “So glad you got your record deal Charlotte at the expense of the 300 people who worked on The Deb and really wanna see it released,” she added in another post. She also continued to claim that Ghost sexually harassed MacInnes.

“Since the beginning, this dispute has been about one thing and one thing only: Rebel Wilson’s obsession with taking credit where none is deserved, at the great expense of young, talented women, whom she tears down, all the while, masquerading to be their champion,” the producers’ attorney Camille Vasquez said in a statement to Variety Australia. That August, MacInnes sued Wilson for defamation too, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “This was her first lead role in a film and you cruelled her professional reputation before she could even enjoy the benefit of the success of the film as the lead actress,” MacInnes’s lawyer wrote.

Additionally, Ghost and Holden’s company, AI Films, sued Wilson separately in Australia, per The Guardian. The suit claimed that Wilson intentionally blocked the sale of The Deb in hopes of devaluing Wilson’s company, Camp Sugar, to the point where AI Films would sell its stake. “As the producer, director, and co-star who nurtured a project called The Deb for three years from a three-page idea into a gorgeous feature film,” Wilson responded on Instagram, “I want nothing more than to have this film released and have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to get this to happen.”

In the alleged audio, intended to paint producer Amanda Ghost as a sex trafficker, fixer Jed Wallace is speaking to publicist Melissa Nathan, who works for the Agency Group, and refers to Wilson’s lawyer Bryan Freedman, a powerful lawyer. “What we need to do is create a path where we expose Amanda Ghost as the new Heidi Fleiss,” Wallace says in the alleged recording. “The reason why she sucks so bad at music is that she’s actually getting hookers for [Warner Music owner Len] Blavatnik. And that’s what she does; she’s an absolute madame, and that’s why she’s so lethal, blah blah blah.” In the audio, he adds that “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.”

“Rebel Wilson has repeatedly denied any involvement in the creation of the smear websites — not just on television but in her sworn legal testimony,” Ghost’s lawyer Vasquez said in a statement to THR. “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 since-deleted site in question was called “Amanda Ghost Is a Destroyer of Worlds.” “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,” the site read. This follows suit with claims Camp Sugar allegedly sent to the Agency Group that referred to Ghost as “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell.”

One of the signature features of the It Ends With Us case is the alleged smear campaign that Justin Baldoni ran against Blake Lively, which was exposed in a December 2024 New York Times report. Many of the names on Wilson’s team are associated with Baldoni’s side, including Nathan, who is quoted in the Times exposé as saying, “You know we can bury anyone.” Jed Nathan and Bryan Freedman are also quoted in that Times piece. Ghost’s team is intentionally drawing the connection between their alleged techniques on the It Ends With Us case and what they may have potentially done for Wilson against Ghost. Baldoni did end up suing the New York Times over the reporting done around the alleged smear campaign, but the case was dismissed in June 2025. It never ends with It Ends With Us, huh?

Neither Wilson nor her team have yet commented on the surfaced audio.