James Packer’s model ex-fiancée Tziporah Malkah is dragged into Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial

Tziporah Malkah has contacted police after a former Seven Network producer admitted to circulating semi-naked pictures of her without her consent. 

The former model and actress was dragged into the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial last week when ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach was questioned about his ‘hatred’ for his former friend and colleague Steve Jackson. 

Mr Auerbach, whose explosive 2,300-page affidavit alleged the Seven Network covered the cost of lavish dinners, cocaine and Thai prostitutes for Mr Lehrmann, waged a vicious briefing campaign against Mr Jackson’s appointment to the role of chief spin doctor for NSW Police commissioner Karen Webb last month. 

Part of that campaign involved sharing topless images of Malkah taken during an interview she gave to Mr Jackson and Mr Auerbach at her Elizabeth Bay home in 2019.

Mr Auerbach admitted in open court on Wednesday that he had shared the images without Malkah’s consent.

The model, formerly known as Kate Fischer, said Mr Auerbach’s actions were ‘completely unacceptable’, revealing she had filed a police report.

‘An individual with whom I was once vaguely acquainted, has decided to use images of me in his personal vendetta against a former male friend and colleague of his,’ Malkah told The Sunday Telegraph. 

‘I believed that it was my duty to immediately report this activity to the police.

‘The experience is deeply personal, hurtful, frightening and degrading. 

‘I am very angry and hurt that I was made an unwilling accomplice to a man’s vindictive, spiteful vendetta against an erstwhile friend of his.’

Malkah previously told the newspaper that she had been ‘at her lowest ebb’ when the pictures were taken on Christmas Eve in 2019.

The one-time fiancee of billionaire James Packer had met Mr Auerbach and Mr Jackson at a pub that day to discuss a story about one of her properties.

The trio went back to Malkah’s Elizabeth Bay address where she later took her top off and was pictured sitting on her sofa alongside Mr Jackson.

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on Mr Jackson’s behalf. 

The images were circulated to journalists last month. 

Mr Lehrmann’s barrister Matthew Richardson asked Mr Auerbach if he had been involved in the distribution of semi-naked photographs of a woman sitting on a couch with Mr Jackson.

‘Is that true?’ Mr Richardson asked.

‘Yes, sir,’’ Mr Auerbach replied.

The barrister then said to Mr Auerbach: ‘So you sent those photographs to media organisations didn’t you?’

Mr Lehrmann’s barrister Matthew Richardson asked Mr Auerbach if he had been involved in the distribution of semi-naked photographs of a woman sitting on a couch with Mr Jackson

Mr Auerbach, whose explosive 2,300-page affidavit alleged the Seven network covered the cost of lavish dinners, cocaine and Thai prostitutes for Mr Lehrmann, waged a vicious briefing campaign against Steve Jackson’s appointment to the role of chief spin doctor for NSW Police commissioner Karen Webb last month (the former friends and colleagues are pictured together)

‘You did not obtain the consent of the woman in question to do this. Did you know you were aware that it was a criminal act to send photographs… to third parties without consent?

‘No,’ Mr Auerbach responded.

It is not the first time Malkah has been the alleged victim of revenge porn.

A man she knew leaked a naked video to television networks in May 2018. 

The 90s star said her naked body had hardly been blurred by the television stations airing the footage without her consent.

‘Shock, betrayal, humiliation… how could this be happening? This can’t be real. How could this be legal?’ she told a court in 2022.

The one-time fiancee of billionaire James Packer (pictured, with Tziporah Malkah) had met Mr Auerbach and Mr Jackson at a pub that day to discuss a story about one of her properties