Taylor Auerbach motivates by “hate” of the former seven colleagues when he published texts about Lehrmann, Network claims Australian media

The former Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach was motivated for a former colleague of “Hass” when he published details about the shops of the seven network with Bruce Lehrmann to the press. Seven claimed in court documents.

The claim is part of the defense of a lawsuit by Auserbach, its former employees, in March. The journalist, who was a late witness in March 2024 in the teacher defamation procedure, claims that the public statements of the network about him before the court led to the fact that he was slandered and avoided.

Auerbach claimed that seven managers had spoken to a news.com.au journalist and made statements about News Corp and ABC's media observation that reduced it.

After Auerbach was published in 2023 in 2023 and signed a confidentiality contract, he was employed as an investigative producer at Sky News Australia. But he lost his job with Sky, as – after the teacher defamation procedure first Wraped – News Corp published text messages between a seven employee and a Thai massage salon about the use of a seven credit card.

To defend his lawsuit against Auerbach's lawsuit, Seven agreed that she received a confidential comparison and release with Auerbach, but countered that he had violated his “own obligation not to seven” in communication with the media.

Sieben said that Auerbach worked together with a more high -ranking producer, Steve Jackson, in Spotlight, but that they had a failure, and Auerbach had until March 2024 “come to hate him” and was “background journalist against Jackson” about an incident from 2019.

In a cross-pack submitted against the federal court, the network contained context-related imputation other, which could possibly represent defamatory material as insignificant-prudent that Auerbach behaved unethically when he took a photo of a “partially naked” woman in December 2019.

“In the course of the interview, the wife of Auerbach was taken, while she was (at least) partly naked. In at least one of the photos, the woman appeared with her breasts, who sat next to Mr. Jackson,” said Seven.

“Auerbach observed that the woman behaved irregularly and he knew that she was in a vulnerable condition and fragile and volatile. Even if the woman agreed to take the photos, the act was to take her under these circumstances, intrusive, excited and unethical.”

Seven Auerbach “started to circulate one or more of the photos in March 2024” when Jackson took on a role as the main media consultant of the NSW police commissioner Karen Webb. The network claimed that Auerbach was “angry” through the appointment.

Auerbach spread the photos, seven said: “Without the consent of the woman and to damage Mr. Jackson's reputation and increase the pressure on the police commissioner, to lift the appointment.”

The network also claimed at its intersection that Auberbach had made News.com.au text messages available, which contained “confidential information about Seven's business, organization or affairs” and that it reduced both seven and his former employee Jackson.

To his defense against the waste, Auerbach said that he spoke to Daily Telegraph journalists about his relationship with Jackson, but only to defend himself.

He said that the Daily Telegraph had submitted to him that he and Jackson had gone out about the teacher -Spotlight interview and that Jackson, when he prepared an article for the Australian, had “had a threesome with the woman” and “consumed illegal drugs with the woman”.

Auerbach said to his defense that he told the Daily Telegraph that the claims about drugs and a threesome were not true and that he believed that Jackson was the source of these claims.

Auerbach, who worked for almost five years at the age of seven, said to his defense that he was instrumental in securing the network's interview with Lehrmann, including the purchase of 1,000 US dollars of services from a Thai masseuse for teacher on the credit card of the Seven.

In his explanation of the claim against Seven 2025, Auerbach said that he started in October 2022 on behalf of seven talks with Lehrmann.

Auerbach said in the explanation that he had been sent to Tasmania to play Golf with Lehrmann, and “was instructed to use the same credit card for the purchase of golf equipment for Mr. Lehrmann and the expensive course fees on the Barnbougle championship.

According to Auerbach, he was “instructed to continue to use the credit card for Mr. Lehrmann and luxurious accommodation stays for him in the course of the following months”.