Australian paparazzo loses Nicole Kidman case

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SYDNEY (AFP) — An Australian paparazzi photographer Wednesday lost his bid for damages in a defamation case involving his treatment of Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman.

Jamie Fawcett had sued Fairfax Media over a 2005 article in the Sun-Herald newspaper which described him as "undoubtably Sydney's most inventive and most disliked freelance photographer".

The article said Fawcett was determined to "wreak havoc" on Kidman's private life and said he had planted a listening device outside her Sydney home.

A jury last year found the article had defamed Fawcett.

But the New South Wales Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled out a damages payment to the photographer, instead ordering Fawcett to pay Fairfax's legal costs, believed to be in the high six figures, the...