SYDNEY - Australia's Daily Telegraph is appealing a defamation award to Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush which could cost the Sydney tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch millions of dollars, the newspaper said Monday.
Following months of legal proceedings, Justice Michael Wigney ruled that the article was a "recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism" and awarded Rush US$608,000 in damages. It also challenged the judge's treatment of the actress who made the original complaint against Rush after playing alongside the actor in the production of King Lear in late 2015 and early 2016.
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