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Australian court upholds Geoffrey Rush's defamation payout

by Associated Press
| July 1, 2020 6:06 PM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian court on Thursday rejected a newspaper publisher’s appeal against Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s $2.9 billion Australian dollars ($2 million) payout for defamation.

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