Zoella

After Girl Online appeared under her name, publisher Penguin confirmed that Zoe Sugg had not written it alone and had worked with Siobhan Curham and an editorial team. Some readers criticised what they saw as a lack of transparency about the collaboration. The exact division of writing work was not publicly established in the reviewed sources.

State of the evidence

Reported statements or criticism; no judicial finding of wrongdoing.

Legal status — source text

No court proceedings against this individual identified.

Attribution

Allegedly inadequate disclosure of a collaborator’s role in a novel published under her name.