The sacked Channel Seven producer who admitted circulating a topless photo of Tziporah Malkah to the media once lodged a complaint against the former model alleging she published “distressing” images of him without his consent.
Taylor Auerbach, 31, filed the complaint four years ago accusing Malkah of posting “very intimate” photos and information about him on social media, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The photos were allegedly taken on December 24, 2019 at Ms Malkah’s flat in Kings Cross.
Auerbach claimed that about 24 hours after visiting her apartment, Malkah posted “an intimate image… without my consent or knowledge” on Instagram and Facebook and then also shared a “harmful” video.
Tziporah Malkah (pictured) was dragged into Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial when Auerbach testified.
Fired Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach (pictured) filed a complaint against Tziporah Malkah after she allegedly posted intimate images of him online in 2019.
He filed an official complaint with the eSafety Commissioner on December 27, 2019.
‘I have since managed to remove the image. “However, the individual uploaded another video of him to Facebook detailing very intimate and sexual information about me and also invaded my privacy by including my name, age, occupation and place of employment,” Mr. Auerbach’s complaint states.
“Not only is it harassing, but it is also false, defamatory and very distressing and damaging to me.”
Auerbach also indicated in his complaint that he did not want action taken against the former model because he felt she was “very fragile/volatile.”
Referencing the saga when speaking to The Daily Telegraph in January 2020, Malkah said the couple had gotten together and she had taken some photographs, which he didn’t like.
‘Yes, Taylor and I had a brief one-night stand. “We had known each other for a while before that because he had been pursuing me for a story,” she said.
‘He asked me to take them down and so I did. Obviously she didn’t want anyone to know we were together. And to be honest, I never heard from him again after that. Which is a little disconcerting.
Last week, Auerbach, 31, dragged Malkah into Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation lawsuit against Network Ten when he was asked about his “hatred” of his former friend and colleague Steve Jackson.
Her explosive 2,300-page affidavit alleged the Seven Network covered the cost of lavish dinners, cocaine and Thai prostitutes for Lehrmann.
The trial also heard details about Mr Auerbach’s information campaign against NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb’s appointment of Jackson to the post of chief medical officer last month.
Part of that campaign involved sharing topless images of Malkah taken during an interview she gave to Jackson and Auerbach at her home.
Bruce Lehrmann is pictured outside court
Auerbach, whose explosive 2,300-page affidavit alleged that the Seven network covered the cost of sumptuous dinners, cocaine and Thai prostitutes for Lehrmann, waged a vicious information campaign against the appointment of Steve Jackson to the position of chief medical officer to the police commissioner. of New South Wales, Karen Webb. last month (former friends and colleagues appear together)
Auerbach admitted in open court Wednesday that he had shared the images without Malkah’s consent.
It has since been revealed that the model formerly known as Kate Fischer filed a police report about the images.
“An individual I once knew vaguely has decided to use images of me in his personal vendetta against a former friend and colleague of his,” Malkah told The Sunday Telegraph.
‘I believed it was my duty to immediately report this activity to the police.
‘The experience is deeply personal, painful, terrifying and degrading.
“I am very angry and hurt that I have become an unwitting accomplice in a man’s vengeful and spiteful vendetta against a former friend of his.”
Malkah previously told the newspaper that he had been “at his lowest point” when the photographs were taken on Christmas Eve 2019.
The ex-fiancée of billionaire James Packer had met Auerbach and Jackson in a pub that day to discuss a story about one of his properties.
The ex-fiancée of billionaire James Packer (pictured, with Tziporah Malkah) had met Auerbach and Jackson in a pub that day to discuss a story about one of their properties.
The trio returned to Ms Malkah’s Elizabeth Bay address, where she then removed her top and was photographed sitting on her sofa next to Mr Jackson.
The images circulated among journalists last month.
Lehrmann’s attorney, Matthew Richardson, asked Auerbach if he had been involved in distributing semi-nude photographs of a woman sitting on a couch with Jackson.
‘That’s right?’ Mr. Richardson asked.
“Yes, sir,” Mr. Auerbach replied.
The lawyer then told Mr. Auerbach, “So you sent those photographs to the media, right?”
‘He did not obtain the consent of the woman concerned to do this. Did you know that you were aware that it was a criminal act to send photographs… to third parties without consent?
“No,” Mr. Auerbach replied.
This is not the first time Malkah has been an alleged victim of revenge porn.
A man I knew leaked a nude video to television networks in May 2018.
The ’90s star said her naked body had been barely blurred by television stations that aired the images without her consent.
‘Shock, betrayal, humiliation… how can this be happening? This can not be real. How could this be legal? he told a court in 2022.
Former model and James Packer’s ex-fiancée Tziporah Malkah (pictured in 2021) told The Daily Telegraph in 2020 that she had a “brief one-night stand” with the former Seven Network producer.