- Actress Rebel Wilson awared $4.5million for being defamed by Bauer Media
- Victorian Supreme Court judge revealed the payout on Wednesday morning
- Pitch Perfect star says she will give money to charity and support young actors
- Bauer Media has branded the special damages claim ‘extraordinarily large’
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has won more than $4.5million compensation for being defamed by ‘bully’ publisher Bauer Media.
On Wednesday a Victorian Supreme Court judge revealed the payout figure, which the Pitch Perfect star said she will give to charity and to support young actors and the Australian film industry.
Wilson, 37, proved to an all-female jury in June that the Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly, OK! and NW magazine publisher defamed her in eight articles published in May 2015.
The articles claimed she was a serial liar about her real name, age and childhood so she could make it in Hollywood.
Wilson won $650,000 in general damages and $3,917,472 in special damages for opportunities of movie roles she lost because of the articles, according to The Guardian.
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson (pictured at a previous court appearance) has won more than $4.5million compensation for being defamed by ‘bully’ publisher Bauer Media
On Wednesday a Victorian Supreme Court judge revealed the payout figure, which the Pitch Perfect star (pictured in June) said she will give to charity
Wilson had sought $5.893million in special damages and $1.2million in general damages, bringing the total claim to $7.093million.
Bauer Media branded the special damages claim ‘extraordinarily large’ and made on the ‘most tenuous of bases’.
Defence barrister Georgina Schoff QC said Wilson was not entitled to special damages because she had failed to prove the articles caused her financial losses.
Wilson has pledged, via Twitter, that any money she wins will be donated to a charity, scholarship or invested into the Australian film industry.
Wilson, 37, proved to an all-female jury in June that the Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly, OK! and NW magazine publisher defamed her in eight articles published in May 2015