Geoffrey Rush Wins Defamation Suit Against Paper That Published Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Geoffrey Rush was awarded $600,000 in a defamation case against an Australian newspaper that published allegations of sexual misconduct made about the Oscar-winning actor.Rush, 67, won his case against The Daily Telegraph Thursday — a year and a half after the outlet published a pair of stories claiming Rush acted inappropriately toward a female costar while performing in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of King Lear in 2015 and 2016.“This was, in all the circumstances, a recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism of the worst kind.
The very worst kind,” Justice Michael Wigney said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.The 2017 articles,
