Published: April 11, 2019
Judge finds Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph in Sydney engaged in ‘recklessly irresponsible’ journalism over sexual harassment allegations
News Corp has been ordered to pay more than $850,000 – with the prospect of millions more – to Geoffrey Rush after a court found Sydney’s Daily Telegraph defamed him by alleging he “engaged in inappropriate behaviour” during a theatre production of King Lear.
The reports were “in all the circumstances, a recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism of the worst kind”, judge Michael Wigney told the Sydney court on Thursday, estimating that Rush’s earnings as an actor would suffer for as long as two years following the “vindication of his reputation”.
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