{"id":338825,"date":"2017-12-10T20:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australian-actor-geoffrey-rush-fights-back-suing-daily-telegraph-for-defamation\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:54:23","slug":"australian-actor-geoffrey-rush-fights-back-suing-daily-telegraph-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australian-actor-geoffrey-rush-fights-back-suing-daily-telegraph-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian actor Geoffrey Rush fights back, suing Daily Telegraph for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Australian actor Geoffrey Rush fights back, suing Daily Telegraph for defamation<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Richard Phillips and Linda Tenenbaum<br \/>\n    <br \/>9 December 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has publicly challenged the slanderous media witch-hunt against him, announcing yesterday at a Melbourne press conference that he was suing Rupert Murdoch\u2019s <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> and its celebrity gossip columnist Jonathon Moran.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney tabloid last week published a series of unsubstantiated allegations from an unnamed female cast member who claimed that Rush had carried out \u201cinappropriate\u201d behaviour during the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) production of <em>King Lear<\/em> in 2015\u201316. The STC failed to provide any details about Rush\u2019s alleged behaviour and insisted that the actor remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a packed press conference on Friday afternoon in Melbourne, Rush denounced the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u2019s attempts to portray him as a \u201cpervert\u201d and \u201csexual predator.\u201d The legal action, he said, was being taken \u201cin order to redress the slurs, innuendo and hyperbole they have created around my standing in the entertainment industry and greater community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0has made false, pejorative and demeaning claims\u2014splattering them with unrelenting bombast on its front pages. This has created irreparable damage to my reputation, been extremely hurtful to my wife, my daughter and my son; to my extended family\u2014and to many colleagues in the Film, Television and Theatre industry. The situation is intolerable and I must now seek vindication of my good name through the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Pullen, Rush\u2019s lawyer, told the media that the actor would sue for aggravated damages because his \u201creputation as an actor has been irreparably harmed such that he is likely to be shunned by employers in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/12\/09\/rush-d09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Australian actor Geoffrey Rush fights back, suing Daily Telegraph for defamation By Richard Phillips and Linda Tenenbaum 9 December 2017 Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has publicly challenged the slanderous media witch-hunt against him, announcing yesterday at a Melbourne press conference that he was suing Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Daily Telegraph and its celebrity gossip columnist Jonathon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}