Judge awards damages after finding 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.
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