Herald Sun' to pay strip club boss $250,000 in damages over brothel madam claims

The owner of a strip club in Shepparton has been awarded $250,000 in damages after suing the Herald Sun for defamation over claims she was a brothel madam.

Raelene Hardie, the owner of Club Rawhide sued the Herald and Weekly Times (publisher of the Herald Sun) and associate editor Andrew Rule, over a May 2013 report headed, "Secret Tip-offs. Country cops suspected of sabotaging bikie raids".

 



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