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Nightclub owner's costly decision to knock back $80,000

Hearsay: Tony Bellino's costly decision, Rush a big hit and an Iced VoVo tribute.

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Former Brisbane nightclub owner Tony Bellino will be ruing his decision to knock back an $80,000 offer from The Courier Mail to settle a defamation case with the newspaper.

Justice Geoffrey Flick revealed on Thursday that it came after Bellino took offence to a story in 2017 that marked 30 years since the landmark Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption.

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