Tziporah Malkah was hospitalized for two days after posing for photos during a romantic Christmas romp with a sacked Channel Seven producer, an unearthed Post Show has revealed.
The former model was drawn into Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case at the Federal Court in Sydney last week, when former Channel Seven producer Taylor Auerbach took the witness stand and threw verbal grenades at the network and its ex-boss, Steve Jackson.
Mr Auerbach claimed that Channel Seven’s Spotlight program had covered the costs of Mr Lehrmann’s fancy dinners, cocaine and prostitutes in a bid to lure him into exclusive television interviews.
The network and Mr. Lehrmann denied these allegations.
Mr. Auerbach also admitted in court that he recently tried to distribute a topless image of Malkah without her consent, but said he did not know it was illegal.
The photo Auerbach allegedly distributed showed a topless Malkah without sitting on the couch with Mr. Jackson. The photo is said to have been taken at her Kings Cross apartment on Christmas Eve in 2019, after Jackson interviewed her for the Australian newspaper.
Mr. Jackson is not accused of any wrongdoing and claims he left the apartment before Malkah and Mr. Auerbach were intimate. It is believed that separate photographs of Mr. Auerbach and Ms. Malkah exist from that evening.
Now a Facebook post has emerged showing Ms Malkah took herself to St Vincent’s Hospital just two days later, on Boxing Day.
Tziporah Malkah (pictured in the 1990s) modeled under the name Kate Fischer
Pictured: A Facebook post from Malkah on Boxing Day 2019, two days after her romp with Taylor Auerbach
At 5.20pm on December 26, Malkah tagged herself at the East Sydney hospital on a Facebook page where she used a pseudonym.
She wrote, “In emergencies with (a friend).”
“It’s overdone this week. Too much stress, not enough good food, and I hit the bottle.
“I’m going to…aunt’s house in the new year for deferral X.”
Following the revelations in court about her nude photo last week, Malkah referred the situation to NSW Police for investigation.
“In this particular case, an individual with whom I was once vaguely acquainted decided to use images of me in his personal vendetta against a former male friend and colleague of his,” she told News Corp on Sunday.
‘This is completely unacceptable.’
Other photos from the same evening – widely circulated in media circles – show Mr Auerbach and Malkah in bed together.
Taylor Auerbach was photographed outside court last week with his attorney, Rebekah Giles
In 2019, Auerbach accused Malkah of sharing an intimate image and a “damaging” video of him without his consent.
He claimed the material was shared on Facebook and Instagram on Christmas Day, about 24 hours after their intimate evening.
Mr Auerbach reportedly filed a complaint with the eSafety Commissioner on December 27, 2019.
In his complaint, he reportedly said he didn’t want action to be taken against her because he feared she was “so vulnerable/volatile” that she would allegedly repost an intimate image.
In 2020, Malkah confirmed she had a “brief” physical relationship with Mr. Auerbach.
“Yes, Taylor and I had a brief one night thing. “We knew each other for a while because he was after me for a story,” she said at the time.
‘We have come together. I took some pictures and posted them online, which he wasn’t happy with,” Malkah told the newspaper.
“He asked me to take them down, which I did. He clearly didn’t want anyone to know we were together. And honestly, I never heard from him again after that. That’s a bit mind-boggling.’
Tziporah Malkah (pictured in 2020) filed a police complaint against Taylor Auerbach over the topless photos
Mr Auerbach admitted in court that he ‘hated’ Mr Jackson, and is widely known to have background media on his former boss, following the former Spotlight producer’s brief appointment as NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb’s chief media officer.
He released Malkah’s topless photo as part of that campaign, and sworn four affidavits in Mr Lehramnn’s defamation trial against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
Under cross-examination by Matthew Richardson SC, Mr Lehrmann’s lawyer, Mr Auerbach denied suggestions he was seeking to provide evidence to harm Channel Seven.
Mr Richardson said: ‘I would like to suggest to you, Mr Auerbach, that you are here today to do as much damage as possible to your former employer and former colleagues.’
“I strongly disagree,” Mr. Auerbach responded.
Mr Richardson then suggested Mr Auerbach was ‘willing to lie’ in his plight to damage Channel Seven.
The revelations were made last week during the defamation trial against Bruce Lehrmann
“No, sir,” Mr. Auerbach replied.
Asked whether he especially hated Mr. Jackson, Mr. Auerbach said, “Yes.”
Judge Michael Lee later noted that Mr Auerbach could be described as someone who was ‘desperate to do as much damage to his previous employer as he could do’.
However, the judge also noted that this did not mean that Mr. Auerbach was not telling the truth.
In court, Mr Auerbach also accused the Spotlight team of bullying and anti-Semitism, and claimed Mr Lehrmann had leaked confidential material to the programme.
Mr Lehrmann has previously denied that any material for the program was leaked.
After weeks of negative publicity, NSW Police announced it had reversed a decision to hire Jackson.