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Businesswoman tells court Financial Review ‘targeted’ her in columns – Sydney Morning Herald
Venture capitalist Elaine Stead is suing the newspaper for defamation over two columns, including one branding her a “feminist cretin”.
The second column described Dr Stead as “set[ting] fire to other people’s money”, while the first called her a “prodigious destroyer of capital”.
Dr Stead, who has a PhD in stem cell biology, told the Federal Court on Wednesday she was “utterly mortified” and panicked after the first column was published and felt “shame, embarrassment, humiliation and guilt”. She felt the publication of a private Instagram post was an “utter invasion”.
Dr Stead said she felt the first column marked a shift to the…
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