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Panthers playmaker Tyrone May (right) narrowly avoided jail after pleading guilty to four counts of intentionally recording an intimate image without consent in 2020.
One of the women at the centre of the Tyrone May sex tapes scandal has engaged a prominent law firm with a view to taking civil action against the Penrith playmaker.
May narrowly avoided jail after pleading guilty to four counts of intentionally recording an intimate image without consent. The matter appeared finalised at Parramatta Local Court in January 2020 when Magistrate Robyn Denes sentenced May to 300 hours of community service for an offence she described as “reprehensible” and “right on the cusp of a custodial sentence”.
Wedding planner Tristan Moy, 33, from Brisbane, targeted by Facebook trolls
Two Australian women attacked her Bali business with defamatory comments
The women, 33 and 32, were ordered to pay $150,000 over the false posts
Ms Moy thought the comments were made in order to sabotage her business
After being ordered to pay $100,000 one of the women told to pay even more
Mark Geyer s daughter speaks out after winning defamation payout
The daughter of NRL legend Mark Geyer has spoken out after winning $125,000 in damages for being wrongly implicated in a sex tape scandal.
Montanna Geyer sued the administrator of the NRL Memes Facebook page, Fouada Ghosn, for defamation over two posts last year which falsely claimed she was the woman in a sex tape with Panthers star Tyrone May.
The 22-year-old was awarded the payout in Sydney District Court yesterday.
Montanna Geyer has spoken about her horror at being wrongly implicated in an NRL sex scandal.(9News)
Ms Geyer told 2GB s Ray Hadley there was a point where she wanted to throw in the towel .
Mark Geyer s daughter has said a Facebook troll could have ruined my life for spreading false rumours that she appeared in a footy star s sex tape online.
Montanna Geyer, 24, sued Fouad Ghosn in the NSW District Court over a March 2019 post identifying her as the bird in an intimate video illegally filmed by Penrith Panthers back Tyrone May.
Ghosn, who runs Facebook page NRL Memes, was ordered to pay Ms Geyer $125,000 in damages for false claims on Wednesday. I just want people to know that from this, you just can t post false things online about people anymore, Ms Goyer told 2GB on Thursday.
Retired NRL great Mark Geyer says his daughter s courtroom victory over a Facebook page administrator falsely accusing her of being in a sex tape is a line in the sand moment for online abuse.
The NSW District Court on Wednesday ordered Fouad Ghosn to pay Montanna Geyer $125,000 in damages over a March 2019 post to popular page NRL Memes.
Mr Ghosn told the page s 300,000 followers Ms Geyer was the bird in an intimate video that had been illegally filmed by Penrith Panthers back Tyrone May and recently leaked to the public.
Montanna Geyer (pictured in November) sued Fouad Ghosn in the NSW District Court over a March 2019 post