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.