Geoffrey takes paper to court
Geoffrey Rush’s lawyer told a court on Monday the Australian actor was “a national living treasure” who had no scandal attached to his name before a Sydney newspaper last year published allegations of inappropriate behaviour toward a female co-star.
The Oscar-winning actor faced a large media pack as he entered Sydney’s Federal Court, where a judge is hearing his defamation trial against the Daily Telegraph and its journalist Jonathon Moran.
Lawyer Bruce McClintock said Rush had a stellar reputation before the newspaper’s 2017 articles.
Court documents say actress Eryn Jean Norvill complained to the Sydney Theatre Company that Rush had touched her inappropriately during a production of King Lear in 2015 and 2016. He has denied the allegations. —