Daily News | Former columnist Stu Bykofsky wins his defamation suit against The Inquirer
Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron defamed former Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky when she described him at a retirement sendoff as having “a taste for child prostitutes,” a jury found Wednesday.
The panel imposed a further penalty against Saffron alone, saying she owed Bykofsky an extra $1,000 in punitive damages. During the five-day trial, Saffron testified that she regretted speaking out at that time and place, but said she stood by her criticism of Bykofsky, who worked for the Daily News for more than 40 years as a television critic, gossip columnist and metro columnist. His opinion pieces began appearing in The Inquirer after the papers merged staffs in 2016.
In his more than three hours of testimony, Bykofsky said Saffron’s words made him “so angry I can barely contain myself.” Common Pleas Court Judge Glynnis D. Hill, who presided over the trial, barred the lawyers from revealing explicitly to the jurors that Bykofsky had hired a prostitute, but permitted the panel to learn that, in emails, he had later joked that a sex worker was “too old for me now,” but said “maybe her daughter is working.”
The two lawyers also dismissed the idea that Saffron’s remarks had delivered a new blow to Bykofsky’s reputation, citing numerous emails in which he acknowledgedAfter Bykofsky filed his defamation suit, the parent company of The Inquirer countersued, saying his criticism of the newspaper violated a non-disparagement clause he agreed to as part of a buyout package he reached when he retired. That suit is pending.
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