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Three producers suing Rebel Wilson seek to delay case to investigate who is behind website that published ‘grotesque lies’


Australian actor in US defamation court fight after claiming on Instagram the producers had engaged in theft, bullying and sexual misconduct – claims which they deny as ‘false and malicious’

Defamation proceedings against Wilson, 44, were launched in July, after the Australian actor made claims to her 11 million Instagram followers that the producers of her film The Deb had engaged in theft, bullying and sexual misconduct. “Failing in music she turned full pimp, reinventing herself as a theatrical producer alongside her husband [co-producer of The Deb, Gregor Cameron] while really procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy,” the website alleged. Wilson has engaged a Beverly Hills entertainment legal firm led by Bryan Freedman, who represented the Michael Jackson estate in a lawsuit against HBO over allegations of child sexual abuse made in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland.

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