Fixer in Hollywood Smear Machine Scandal Spoke of Other Clients: Elon Musk, Jake and Logan Paul

Jed Wallace is the formerly mysterious Hollywood fixer who this year has been under an increasingly bright legal spotlight for his alleged role as a co-conspirator in a secretive industry smear machine meant to undermine and even destroy the targets of his clients.

Court records and other documents have shown that Wallace’s customers appear to have included Travis Scott, Rebel Wilson and Andrew Huberman, as well as the socially prominent Alexander brothers, who’ve since been convicted of sex trafficking. Now, new materials obtained by The Hollywood Reporter reveal additional high-profile names who he’s claimed have been part of his client portfolio: world’s-richest-man Elon Musk, plus Jake and Logan Paul, the influencer-entrepreneurs who are also known for their involvement in combat sports. (It’s unknown if Wallace has produced anonymous smear sites on their behalf as well.)

Neither Wallace nor the newly surfaced clients replied to THR’s inquiries.

In 2025, Blake Lively filed a since-dismissed suit against Wallace, 55, who’s based outside of Austin, for his efforts on behalf of Justin Baldoni, with whom she was then feuding over the director’s conduct during the filming of her starring role in It Ends with Us. She said Wallace’s business serviced “high-profile and high-net worth clients, including by contracting with other public relations and brand management firms to perform discrete work,” and that it specialized in “confidential and ‘untraceable’ campaigns across various social media platforms (including TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and X) to shape public perception of his clients and their adversaries and to perpetuate those perceptions by, among other things, creating social media accounts with inauthentic users.” Wallace responded in court by describing his work as helping customers “navigate real-life human crisis, threats, trauma and mental health concerns” when they “find themselves unjustly attacked, extorted, doxed, swatted, scammed or need help navigating through the most frightening situations.”

In leaked audio recordings published by THR in September, Wallace counseled the Italian billionaire Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, who was publicly battling his then-fiancee, the American soap opera actress Jessica Serfaty. To establish his bona fides, Wallace told Del Vecchio that his client list has included “world leaders, celebrities, diplomats, high-profile individuals,” elaborating that “I have to pick and choose who the fuck I work with.” Earlier in his career, Wallace handled communications for companies including VirTra, which sells firearms training simulators to police departments and federal agencies, as well as Sciax Technology, a specialist in tactical remote viewing systems used by SWAT teams in the U.S. and American military personnel engaged in special operations abroad.

THR has since reviewed additional documentation which details more of those names. In a separate voice memo to Del Vecchio, Wallace informed him, “Elon’s a client,” and in a text exchange on Aug. 13, 2024, with Del Vecchio and the crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, Wallace obliquely referenced a separate ongoing work priority, explaining “I’m in this Elon/Trump debrief.” On the previous day, Musk had interviewed the then-presidential candidate on Musk’s social media platform X, although the two-hour discussion was delayed by what Musk characterized as a cyberattack. (Later that year, after Trump won his second presidential term, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly consulted with Wallace and Nathan as he sought his nomination for health secretary.)

Later in the same text exchange, Wallace informed Del Vecchio, “Just so you know — Logan and Jake have been part of my special client family since 2017.” Logan Paul, a longtime Nathan client, reportedly dated Serfaty between 2014 and 2017.

Paul recently settled a defamation claim against Stephen Findeisen, a YouTuber who published an investigation accusing the influencer of promoting what Findeisen characterized as a bogus crypto venture. Discovery records from the suit include a December 2022 chat history on the encrypted messaging app Signal between Wallace and Paul, who refers to the fixer as “papi.” Wallace, in turn, details multiple ways he can be of assistance in Paul’s attempt to discredit Findeisen: “I have someone that can find anything on anyone,” he explains, detailing a standard private investigation background check (“basic criminal, cases, property, etc.”) before elaborating, “then we can get really nasty from there.”

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