Key Highlights
- Wilson also accuses Ghost, Cameron, and Holden of intimidation and embezzling funds from the movie.
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- The Pitch Perfect star will also be able to pursue allegations that producers caused her emotional distress.
- Judge Long has also granted Ghost permission to conduct limited discovery in relation to her defamation lawsuit regarding so-called “smear websites” that made incendiary allegations about the producer being the “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell.” Ghost and her colleagues amended their original July 2024 defamation complaint against Wilson to accuse her of commissioning the websites, which they said contained “malevolent” and “racist” lies.
- Wilson has “unequivocally” denied any role in “conceiving, planning, registering, directing, creating, writing, or posting the content of the websites.” Specifically, the court authorised a deposition and document subpoena of Katie Case, a former employee of publicist Melissa Nathan’s TAG.