Geoffrey Rush case: Daily Telegraph and Nationwide News lose defamation appeal against actor
by Elias Visontay from on (#5593T)
Oscar winner to be awarded full $2.9m in damages after judges reject all publisher's grounds of appeal
The Sydney Daily Telegraph will have to pay the actor Geoffrey Rush a record $2.9m in damages after the tabloid lost its appeal against a historic defamation ruling.
The newspaper and its publisher, Nationwide News - part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, had challenged an Australian federal court decision from April 2019 that found claims conveyed in two of its news articles from 2017 that the Oscar winner had behaved inappropriately towards a colleague were not credible.
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