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‘I want to kill him’: Amber Harrison’s emails revealed to court

Amber Harrison, inset, and Seven CEO Tim Worner.

Amber Harrison, inset, and Seven CEO Tim Worner.

Emails by Amber Harrison show the former Seven West Media employee to be a person with “huge malice, enormous arrogance and vindictiveness”, a Sydney judge has been told.

Andrew Bell SC, for the media organisation, on Monday cited emails including one in which Ms Harrison said she wanted to kill her former lover, Seven boss Tim Worner, and others in which she boasted about a previous revenge campaign against a radio executive with whom she had a relationship.

Mr Bell is seeking a number of orders, including all of Seven’s legal costs, after Ms Harrison took to social media on Friday to say she was abandoning her case against the media company which was due to begin in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday.

Seven had sought a permanent gag order preventing her from speaking about her affair with Mr Worner and releasing company documents.

Mr Bell on Monday said Ms Harrison made a series of “flagrant” breaches of a deed of release, which involved her receiving a “significant” sum of money and agreeing not to speak about her affair or launch any legal proceedings.

But it became clear “even before the ink was dry on the deed” that she had lied and was breaching her undertakings, he told the court.

He referred to “an earlier course of conduct” when her emails disclose she targeted an executive at radio station Nova who had “f***ed me over”.

She had referred to using the press to publicly humiliate the executive and had boasted about “her power to use the media to destroy people’s reputations”, Mr Bell said.

He cited an email when she spoke of a “revenge campaign I ran at Nova”.

“I splashed it across the papers for three weeks,” she said.

In another email she said about Mr Worner: “I want to kill him … plotting my revenge … will make Nova look like a turkey slap.”

“We have a defendant here, regrettably, who is completely and utterly reckless with regard to other people, and we would say to corporations’ reputations and who has used, in at least two instances, conduct in the media to humiliate and embarrass people,” Mr Bell said.

On Monday afternoon, Ms Harrison tweeted: “I would like to be heard. A time is being arranged with the court.”

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