TV stars launch court bid to keep names out of Tim Worner scandal
Two TV personalities named by a website in connection with the sex scandal surrounding Seven West Media CEO, Tim Worner, have launched defamation proceedings in an attempt to have their names removed from the site.
An urgent hearing in the NSW Supreme Court was scheduled for 10:00am today with lawyers acting for “Jane Doe 1” and “Jane Doe 2” suing the site’s owner for defamation.
For legal reasons, Mumbrella is not naming the women, or the website in question.
The move comes five days after a former executive assistant in the media company’s magazine division went public on her 18 months relationship with the married executive. In a widely circulated email subsequently reported by the media, Amber Harrison made a number of claims about Worner’s conduct during and after their relationship.
Harrison left the company acrimoniously after questions were raised around her use of her company credit card and legal discussions about a financial settlement then broke down.
In the latest development, the website said the two TV stars were among four named by Harrison in documents during her legal battle with the network.
It is understood the site in question had been ordered by the court to remove references to the two women by 8:00pm on Wednesday night but has not done so.
Both Worner and Seven have rejected many of the allegations made by Harrison.
On Thursday, the SWM board announced it had ordered an “independent inquiry” into matters surrounding the affair and payments that had been made to Harrison. The board said the inquiry was aimed at allying any fears by shareholders, but noted they still supported the embattled CEO.
Worner has admitted he had an affair with Harrison and had apologised for his conduct.
He has also reportedly sent an email to SWM staff apologising and saying his behaviour should not be seen as a reflection of the values of the company.
Worners the problem not the women, nut up Stokes and get rid of him.
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Oh the irony of two women who get their pay via a company that owns New Idea and other tabloid trash, that regularly defames people like Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban (how many times this year have they split up or been pregnant?) and Bec and Leyton Hewitt,(again how many times have they split up, or one of them is having an affair etc) according to New Idea?
They are happy to work for a company that makes money dragging others through the mud, but woe is me, the second it happens to them.
Boo Hoo
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Art,
Let’s assume they have nothing to do with it.
Your employer could be a dick too.
Let’s assume they are good workers whose reputations will be traduced. Especially the married one.
Happy Christmas
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*allaying
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Oh Please! It amazes me how even today (the tail end of 2016) any questionable situation, such as the use of company funds for personal reasons, or the use of corporate power to enrich ones personal desires, is always heated up to boiling point by the association of sexual behaviour.
We are, after the age of innocence, and unless asexual, all sexual beings of one type or another. Here, like Clinton and Lewinsky, there are consenting adults doing what adults do. It has been many years since we made a joke of Lord Reith, who suspending an on air announcer for kissing a woman from the typing pool, and when it was suggested by his supervisor, that the announcer should be reinstated because he was a married man whose family depended on his income, Reith replied that his being married made the matter worse! He was ultimately reinstated, but never again allowed to read the on air epilogue.
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Memo to the lawyers warning Mumbrella not to publish the names of the women nor that of the website: it took me about 8 seconds to Google it up. But I suppose you have to go through the motions when you’re being paid QC-level fees. Keep it up chaps!
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