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’

The three producers suing Rebel Wilson for defamation have requested a 90-day stay in the Los Angeles superior court to establish the source of an anonymous website that they say accuses one of them of being an “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell”.

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.

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