BRISBANE — Daniel Johns has received a six-figure sum and a grovelling apology from News Corp. after one of the media giant’s titles published a lurid story on the Silverchair frontman which was found to be inaccurate.
The Australian rocker launched defamation proceedings over an article published August 2019 in Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph that claimed he had visited a brothel in the city and depicted in graphic details its services offered. The story was accompanied by photos of the Novocastrian in the area.
In a writ filed to the Supreme Court of Victoria, Johns refuted the article as "simply untrue" and "hurtful, humiliating, and damaging to me and my family,” and Mistress Scarlett, owner of the Kastle brothel, publicly supported Johns and denied the front page story.