Hollywood star Judy Davis wins newspaper libel case

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) — Hollywood star Judy Davis on Monday won a libel action against an Australian newspaper group that she claimed had depicted her as a selfish child-hater.

A jury in Sydney found that Australia's Daily Telegraph had defamed the double Oscar nominee in articles about her appearance at a meeting at which objections were raised against plans to install floodlighting at a sports field near her home.

A jury of three men and one woman determined that News Ltd's Nationwide News, the publisher of the Telegraph, had defamed Davis and was "actuated by malice in publishing (the article)," the Australian Associated Press reported.

The jury found the articles published in February 2006 defamed Davis by stating she "acted in an unreasonable and selfish manner...

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