Amber Harrison: Ex-mistress of Seven West boss Tim Worner tried to take down Nova FM exec, court hears

THE FORMER mistress of Seven CEO Tim Worner had previously tried to destroy the reputation of a Nova FM exec, with whom she also had a ­relationship, it has been alleged.

Amber Harrison. Picture: Supplied

• Amber Harrison agrees to gag order as part of Seven settlement
• Amber Harrison ‘tried to destroy reputation of radio executive’

THE FORMER mistress of Seven West Media CEO Tim Worner had previously tried to destroy the reputation of an executive at radio station Nova FM with whom she also had a ­relationship, it was alleged in court.

Seven is pursing former employee Amber Harrison for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs after she gave up her battle to stop the broadcaster from seeking a Supreme Court order gagging her from ever speaking about her affair with the media boss.

Ms Harrison did not show up to the hearing on Monday and was not legally represented when Seven lawyers tendered allegedly damning emails from her to a colleague at the network in which she wrote of Mr Worner: “Hey Timo, I want to kill him seriously I am plotting my revenge and will make Nova look like a turkey slap.”

Former Channel 7 employee Amber Harrison. Seven is now chasing her for court costs. Picture: John Grainger

In the email exchange during June 2014, Harrison allegedly boasts about leaking stories to journalists in “a revenge campaign that stopped the city” against an “executive at Nova (FM radio) that f ... ed me over”.

“I splashed it across the papers for three weeks,” Ms Harrison emailed.

Amber Harrison.

Tim Worner.

Seven lawyer Andrew Bell SC said the email exchange showed, “a previous act of vindictive revenge in which she boasts of orchestrating to humiliate and harm a person with whom she had a relationship in the media industry.” Dr Bell accused Ms Harrison of being a person of “huge malice and enormous arrogance and vindictiveness.”

Ms Harrison left Seven West Media under a cloud in 2014 when she told management about her affair with Mr Worner after being accused of misusing company funds.

The Seven boss had a two-year affair with Amber Harrison. Picture: Kym Smith

When Ms Harrison left she signed a Deed of Agreement to not speak about the affair, say anything disparaging about Seven or retain any documents belonging to the media organisation.

In exchange Seven agreed to pay her in instalments a total of $427,418 including $100,000 for “alleged injury, including loss of professional standing and reputation”.

Dr Bell said Ms Harrison had made “flagrant breaches” of the Deed of Agreement even “before the ink was dried” on the document.

Seven is pursing the former employee for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs. Picture: Supplied

He asked that the court not only impose a gag order on Ms Harrison but also make her pay Seven’s legal costs from February this year.

Although Ms Harrison did not appear in court yesterday she was active on social media.

She tweeted: “The irony is I consented (aside from the request for costs) to the proposed court orders they seek (sic) last night — so who has the sour grapes?”

Ms Harrison, who lives in Melbourne, is scheduled to give evidence via a phone hook-up this morning.