Actor Geoffrey Rush wins ‘largest ever’ Australian defamation payout
By AFP
03 July 2020 |
1:11 pm
Hollywood star Geoffrey Rush wins a record multimillion-dollar payout after an appeal by a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper against a defamation ruling was thrown out by an Australian court.
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