‘Pitch Perfect’ star wins defamation lawsuit
HOLLYWOOD actress Rebel Wilson yesterday won a lengthy defamation case against an Australian publisher that portrayed her as a serial liar, which she said cost her lucrative movie roles.
The 37-year-old Pitch Perfect star sued Bauer Media over eight articles in Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly and OK Magazine in 2015, which her lawyers said tore down an Australian star to sell magazines.
The stories claimed the Sydney-born actor had lied about her name, age and background to advance her career in the United States.
Giving evidence at the threeweek trial, often in tears, Wilson claimed she had been sacked from DreamWorks animated feature films Trolls and Kung Fu Panda 3 following the articles. Bauer denied they had damaged her reputation and argued they were true.
But the Victorian Supreme Court ruled she had been defamed in all eight of the pieces, with the judge to decide on the penalty at a later date.