Overview

• Justice Erin Longbottom found 14 contraventions for posting deepfake nude images of six women between November 2022 and October 2023.
• The court ordered Rotondo to pay the eSafety Commissioner's legal costs, and it suppressed the victims' identities to protect their privacy.
• The eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, brought the civil action, which media reports describe as the first case of its kind in Australia.
• Rotondo was previously fined $25,000 in December 2023 for contempt after breaching court orders by failing to remove images and emailing the orders to about 50 recipients.
• He admitted posting the images to MrDeepFakes.com and earlier told regulators a removal notice meant nothing to him because he was not an Australian resident, before later providing passwords that enabled takedown.