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Recent defamation case

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Rebel Wilson, the Australian actress of "Pitch Perfect" fame, was richly vindicated Wednesday by a court in Melbourne, which said that a magazine publisher must pay her $3.6 million (4.6 million Australian dollars) in damages for defamation.

The publisher, Bauer Media, was responsible for articles in the Australian magazines Woman's Day and Women's Weekly, among others, that painted Ms. Wilson as the kind of nefarious shape-shifter that might appear in a Hollywood screenplay - a "serial liar" and opportunist who assumed a false name, age and biography in order to advance her career.

Ms. Wilson said the articles cost her work and personal distress.

Justice John Dixon of the Supreme Court of Victoria agreed, writing in his judgment that Bauer was guilty of "recklessness" and "did not care whether the plaintiff suffered reputational damage as it pursued its own corporate interests." The award follows a jury verdict in Ms. Wilson's favor in June. In a statement Wednesday, Ms. Wilson's lawyer said the substantial sum set a national record for damages received in a defamation case.

On a break from her work on the third installment of the "Pitch Perfect" franchise, Ms. Wilson celebrated her victory in a series of Twitter posts and said the case "wasn't about the money."

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C2 of the New York edition with the headline: Rebel Wilson Prevails In Defamation Suit. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Rebel Wilson Awarded $3.6 Million in Defamation Case

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Rebel Wilson, the Australian actress of "Pitch Perfect" fame, was richly vindicated Wednesday by a court in Melbourne, which said that a magazine publisher must pay her $3.6 million (4.6 million Australian dollars) in damages for defamation.

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Use these slides to recap negligence, and then learn about defamation (elements, defences, development of the law, and impacts of defamation)

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Learn about the elements, defences, development of the law, and the impacts of negligence