(CNN)Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson’s record-setting $3.6 million defamation win was slashed on Thursday after a successful appeal, leaving her with only $453,395.
Last September, Wilson, an Australian national, won a case against Bauer Media, which she said had published articles depicting her as a serial liar.
The court awarded Wilson $3.6 million ($4.5 million Australian), which Wilson’s lawyers called the “largest defamation damages award in Australian legal history.”
Bauer Media appealed the size of the payoff, and on Thursday in Melbourne, the Court of Appeals ruled in their favor.
The original ruling, made by Justice John Dixon, had broken down into $3.1 million for special damages, and $522,000 in general damages.
In the appeal, Justice Pamela Tate slashed the special damages amount entirely, and lowered the general damages amount to $453,395.
Tate said that Wilson evidence was “not sufficient,” and that sh was “unable to establish there was a causal connection between the defamatory publications for which Bauer was responsible and any loss that was suffered.”
She also rejected the claim that Wilson had suffered…
