Rebel Wilson Accuses Producers of Her New Movie "The Deb" of 'Theft, Bullying and Sexual Misconduct' in New Countersuit
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10/04/2024 11:41 AM
The producers of Rebel Wilson's movie 'The Deb' initially filed a defamation lawsuit against Wilson on July 12 after she publicly accused them of "bad behavior"
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Rebel Wilson on May 16, 2024Rebel Wilson is firing back at the producers of her directorial debut The Deb, months after they filed a defamation lawsuit against her.
On Sept. 26, attorneys for Wilson, 44, filed a countersuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against film producers Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron, Vince Holden and multiple production companies associated with her new movie The Deb, alleging that the three producers' conduct on set "was marked by a troubling pattern of egregious and illicit behaviors, including theft, bullying and sexual misconduct."
In the complaint, Wilson's attorney said that the trio deliberately misappropriated $900,000 in Australian currency from the movie's budget, coerced her signature on agreements related to the movie under duress, and that Ghost sexually harassed The Deb's lead actress, which allegedly caused the person "to suffer a breakdown." Wilson additionally claimed she has experienced "intimidation and bullying to silence her" from the three producers since October 2023.
Wilson's attorneys alleged in the new filing that the three producers attempted "intimidation and bullying to silence her and evade accountability."
Additionally, Wilson alleged that producer Ghost specifically "failed to disclose her extensive history of seedy practices and unethical behavior" before embarking on making The Deb with Wilson, and that Cameron, her husband, physically intimidated Wilson during their disagreements related to the movie.
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Rebel Wilson on Sept. 14, 2024Ghost, Gregor and Holden initially filed a defamation suit against Wilson in Los Angeles on July 12, after Wilson said they were attempting to prevent the film from world premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, while accusing them of "bad behavior" on the movie's set in a July 10 Instagram video.
In that lawsuit, the producers claimed Wilson wanted a co-writing credit and rights to The Deb's original music and that they attempted to withdraw the movie from TIFF because "it was embroiled in numerous credit and licensing disputes instigated by Rebel."
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"This was a vindictive attempt to destroy [the producers'] reputations with what she knew were demonstrably false statements," they alleged in the July 12 complaint.
Wilson herself called that lawsuit "rubbish" in another Instagram post shared that same day.
Bryan Freedman, an attorney for Wilson, tells PEOPLE in a new statement that Ghost, Gregor and Holden "attempted to manipulate the narrative by recklessly filing an outlandish lawsuit."
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Ramona Agruma and Rebel Wilson on Sept. 14, 2024"Their real problem? Only a fraction of their outrageous conduct has been revealed thus far," he added, claiming that allegations made in Wilson's countersuit are "just the tip of the iceberg." "In their desperation to shift the story, they neglected to consider that this strategy would only lead to RW's filing of a cross-complaint which exhibits a plethora of their shocking misconduct which there are many witnesses to."
Wilson's countersuit was filed just two days before she married partner Ramona Agruma in a destination wedding in Sardinia, Italy, on Saturday, Sept. 28. The pair went public with their romance in June 2022 and got engaged on Valentine's Day in 2023. They share Wilson's daughter Royce Lillian, whom Wilson welcomed via surrogate in November 2022.
The Deb made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
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