Geoffrey Rush: Sydney newspaper loses appeal over defamation payout
- laurajamesme
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min read
An Australian newspaper has lost its appeal against a record defamation payout awarded to actor Geoffrey Rush.
Mr Rush was awarded A$2.9m (£1.57m; US$1.99m) last April after winning his case against Nationwide News, a publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Its newspaper, Sydney's Daily Telegraph, had run stories accusing Mr Rush of behaving inappropriately towards a former theatre co-star.
The publisher lost its appeal against the judgement and the size of payout.
Lawyers for Nationwide News had argued the payout - the largest ever awarded to a single person in Australia - was "manifestly excessive".
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