Sam Groth’s wife Brittany publicly defends couple’s relationship as they threaten legal action against minister | Victorian politics
Brittany Groth, the wife of Victoria Liberal Deputy Leader Sam Groth, threatened the legal procedure against the double News Corp and a Labor Minister, defending the timing of his relationship with his former tennis star husband.
On Wednesday, the couple’s law firm sent a slander anxiety, claiming that the social media tasks of Brittany were a serious invasion of Brittany’s confidentiality and that Sam’s reputation was harmful to Sam’s reputation.
Contected by Prime Minister Jacinta Allan and opposition leader Brad Battin, anonymous liberal colleagues, the problem of the political rivals may be armed by the couple’s relationship because they began to express their concerns.
However, in a statement distributed by the couple’s legal team on Thursday, Brittany said that the time schedule proposed by the Herald Sun report was “unfounded and wrong”.
When he first met Sam in September 2011, he said that he was “in a relationship with someone else ,, he was not a tennis coach and that he continued his professional tennis career in mid -November 2011.
Brittany said, “We have not even acted in any behavior that will enter the provisions quoted by Herald Sun,” Brittany said.
He said that he would never think that “I would have to defend myself or my family with a newspaper against ugly imas and my private life.
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Brittany said, “Herald Sun’s 14 years ago, a stupid decision about my personal life when I was young, is not journalism. This is a shameful smear campaign that deprived of real, public interest or fundamental immorality,” he said.
Herald Sun claimed that Sun tried to communicate with him once, intentionally released photos “clicked”, and allowed the public members to be published on his family on hundreds of inferiority and slander interpretation ”platforms.
Brittany said, “Now you have hidden them, but only after the damage is over,” Brittany said.
He claimed that the behavior of the publication means “when I first sex with my husband, it means pressure to disclose the sincere details of my personal and private life, including defending myself against fiction”.
The Legal Letter of Herald Sun asked for permanent removal of all articles and posts. On Wednesday, until 17:00 and the article published an apology.
However, Herald Sun published and published another report, claiming that Groths was trying to “close the discussion” on the public interest.
Editor Sam Weir was quoted in Herald Sun: iz We are with our reports on public interest that covers important issues that may have a great impact on the Victoria politics, which leads an election. ”
However, Brittany objected to the public interest of “young private life”.
“There is no excuse to use the democratic process as a shield for harassment. There is no reason to be attacked by a woman’s integrity, aside from the search for gossip,” he said.
“I’m the only one who owns my story. And my family will not lean back when you get out of humanity for headlines.”
The couple’s lawyers also wrote to the Minister of Health Mary-Anne Thomas and asked the public to apologize for their comments outside the parliament on Tuesday.
The letter accuses him of making both slander and “extremely inappropriate” comments.
Patrick George’s letter, “They seem to have made the background facts about the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Groth without any personal information or understanding, without taking any steps to approach Mr. Groth or his wife,” he said.
For a comment, he was contacted with Thomas.
The Prime Minister said that Thomas was “asked a more general question ve and said that the reporting was the result of the“ deep division within the Victorian liberal party ”.
“I reiterate my opinion that families should be very deported,” Allan said.
