ABC settles out of court over Paper Giants defamation case
Alasdair Macdonald, the former husband of magazine editor Ita Buttrose, has settled his defamation case against the ABC out of court.
Macdonald was suing the ABC over the way he was portrayed in the mini-series Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo.
Details of the settlement, which was completed on Friday, remain confidential, according to Macdonald’s counsel.
Macdonald claims no one contacted him to verify the truth of the story before production.
I hope he got a decent payout.
There was no need for that storyline, which in my view took a lot of the gloss and believability off the series.