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'The Deb' Star Charlotte MacInnes Attacks Rebel Wilson In Appeal Against Court Defeat 33%
By Jake Kanter40%
7/24/2026, 3:56:51 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Self-Serving Bias as the most egregious example at 22% saturation with 110 hits. Analysis detected 876 faulty-reasoning hits from 501 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.2% and a BS Rank of 33% (14,861 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.90% of the article peer group.
The chaotic legal fight over Rebel Wilson‘s directorial debut is far from over.
*The Deb* star Charlotte MacInnes has formally appealed after the Federal Court of Australia ruled that Wilson did not defame her in a series of social media posts from July 2024.
MacInnes claimed that Wilson damaged her reputation by alleging that she was sexually harassed by *The Deb* producer Amanda Ghost, and then walked back her claims to benefit her career.
Justice Elizabeth Raper, the Australian judge who presided over the case, did not agree, ruling this week that “MacInnes has failed to establish that the publications have caused or were likely to cause serious harm.”
MacInnes‘ legal team has filed an eight-page appeal, in which they argue that Justice Raper “erred” in reaching her conclusions.
The filing also goes on the attack against Wilson.
The appeal accused Wilson of giving “false evidence” and “destroying, concealing or otherwise failing to produce relevant documents.”
The appeal also accuses Justice Raper of failing to take proper account of Wilson's role in a so-called “smear website,” which made incendiary allegations about Ghost being the “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Wilson has denied any involvement in the website.
Representatives for Wilson have been approached for comment.
At the heart of the case is an incident in September 2023, when Ghost shared a bath with MacInnes in a Sydney apartment after they had been swimming on Bondi beach.
Ghost and MacInnes do not deny that they bathed together, but both say it was a non-sexual encounter, during which they were wearing swimsuits, after Ghost experienced a medical incident.
Wilson claimed that MacInnes told her that the incident made the young actress uncomfortable.
Wilson further alleged that MacInnes later withdrew her complaint after being given career opportunities by Ghost.
MacInnes denied that the incident made her uncomfortable, suing Wilson over four Instagram posts, in which the *Bridesmaids* star discussed the events.
Justice Raper agreed with Wilson.
“MacInnes changed her story about feeling uncomfortable about what happened in the bathroom,” the judge ruled, adding that Wilson’s social media posts about MacInnes were not defamatory “by reason of these findings.”
Justice Raper was not convinced by the testimony of MacInnes, Ghost, and Wilson but ultimately deemed that Wilson’s actions after the bathing incident supported her story.
“I have serious misgivings as to the truthfulness of the testimony of each of Ms.
MacInnes, Ms.
Ghost and Ms.
Wilson,” the judge said.
“Whilst I accept that Ms.
Wilson has a propensity to exaggerate events and her evidence could be found to be untruthful on occasion, the evidence establishes that Ms.
Wilson acted in a manner consistent with a complaint being made and her own contemporaneous documentary trail supports this.”
As well as the proceedings in Australia, *The Deb*‘s producers are suing Wilson in the Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing the *Pitch Perfect* star of pursuing an unjustified vendetta after being denied a writing credit on *The Deb*.
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