The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald have removed an article that suggested multimillionaire Geoff Bainbridge was the victim of an elaborate six-year extortion racket, admitting they appeared to have been “badly misled” after doubts were raised about aspects of the story.
The Age’s chief reporter, Chip Le Grand, wrote on Monday evening that revelations about a video depicting Bainbridge using drugs had thrown into doubt the version of events Bainbridge gave him last week about the footage being at the centre of an extortion attempt.
