Rebel Wilson was grilled over two ‘take-down’ websites that emerged in August 2024 about The Deb’s co-producer, Amanda Ghost.
The sites, amandaghost.com and amandaghostsucks.com, contained a raft of criminal allegations against Ms Ghost, describing her as the Indian version of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell trafficked teenage girls for notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The sites also accused Ms Ghost of stealing writing credits from Shakira and others.
The court previously heard Wilson’s company, Camp Sugar, emailed a crisis PR firm about the websites.
Last week, the court heard the owner of the firm Melissa Nathan texted another employee: ‘So basically Rebel wants one of those sites’.
In court on Tuesday, Wilson denied ordering the sites.
However, she agreed the PR firm was hired on her behalf by a member of her legal team.
Defamation lawyer Sue Chrysanthou SC pointed to an interview Wilson did with Channel Nine journalist Tara Brown on 60 Minutes.
In that interview, Wilson told Ms Brown she had nothing to do with the sites.
(Amanda Ghost is pictured, above, outside the Federal Court in Sydney last week)
Ms Brown asked: ‘So why is your name linked to it? Why does she say Rebel?’
Wilson replied: ‘I have no idea. I don’t know whether those texts are real. I don’t know where they came from. I learnt about it in the press and was like, “oh okay’…but obviously the evidence is with the court that I had absolutely nothing to do with it.’
In court on Tuesday, Ms Chrysanthou asked why she questioned the authenticity of the texts.
She pointed out that Wilson had seen the texts in a previous court case.
Wilson said she was not a party to those texts so she couldn’t confirm if they were authentic.
Wilson said: ‘I can see how people might think I’m associated.’
Ms Chrysanthou put to Wilson that Camp Sugar was listed as an author in PR firm emails, she was named in the texts, and a document from August 2024 was allegedly authored and modified by Camp Sugar. She said: ‘How do you explain that?’
The document contained allegations about Ms Ghost.
Wilson said the document was under Camp Sugar but she couldn’t confirm who actually wrote it.
