Newspaper Loses Geoffrey Rush Defamation Appeal

Geoffrey Rush fronts the media outside the Supreme Court of New South Wales after being awarded AUD$850,000 damages on April 11, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Three judges have dismissed an appeal by Nationwide News against a finding it defamed Geoffrey Rush and against the awarding of $2.9 million in damages.

The Daily Telegraph’s publisher and journalist Jonathon Moran were found to have been reckless regarding the truth when they reported Rush had been accused of inappropriate behaviour during a Sydney theatre production of King Lear in 2015.