Overview
- The Federal Court hearing, which opened Monday before Justice Elizabeth Raper in Sydney, is slated to run about nine days with both Wilson and Charlotte MacInnes expected to give evidence.
- MacInnes says Wilson’s Instagram Stories wrongly suggested she lied about a workplace harassment complaint involving producer Amanda Ghost, and she seeks aggravated damages plus an order stopping any repeat.
- Wilson accepts she posted material to roughly 11 million followers but denies some posts referred to MacInnes or carried the alleged meanings, and she plans to argue the gist is true and that MacInnes suffered no serious harm.
- The dispute centers on a September 2023 bath taken after a Bondi swim, which MacInnes describes as a medical warm-up in swimwear with no touching and which Wilson says MacInnes later told her felt uncomfortable.
- Separate lawsuits from The Deb’s producers in U.S. and New South Wales courts and the months-long public fight delayed the film’s rollout, which reached Australian cinemas on April 9 after earlier holds.