SA: Bec Hewitt victim of grubby report, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-2009
SA: Bec Hewitt victim of grubby report, court told

Lawyers for former soapie star BEC HEWITT are trying to get New Idea to reveal its
sources .. for a story the magazine ran alleging the wife of tennis star LLEYTON HEWITT
had a new man in her life.

Ms HEWITT has taken Pacific Magazines .. the publishers of New Idea .. to court to
seek out who supplied the photos and words used in the story.

The photos showed Ms HEWITT with her children and a man who the magazine said was MARK
.. a former fitness trainer from Dallas.

But MARK turned out to be her brother SHAUN CARTWRIGHT .. who often travels with the
HEWITTS on the international tennis circuit.

In the South Australian Supreme Court .. counsel for Ms HEWITT .. ANDREW HARRIS ..

said the New Idea article was grubby .. and intended to insinuate she was involved in
an extramarital affair.

Mr HARRIS said MARK was a fabrication .. and finding the magazine's source would allow
Ms HEWITT .. who wasn't in court .. to take any future defamation action against that
person .. as well as New Idea.

Supreme Court Master ROBERT LUNN has reserved his decision.

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