In a Victorian Supreme Court on a Friday morning in September 2026, a formal apology was read aloud on behalf of Luke Sayers — former Carlton president and PwC chief executive — acknowledging that his ex-wife Cate Sayers had not posted the lewd photograph that had shadowed her reputation for months. She had sued for defamation after he swore a statutory declaration accusing her of the act, and she pursued the case not for silence or settlement, but for the rarest of legal outcomes: a public admission of truth. In a world where powerful people often find ways to let accusations quietly dissolve
Carlton's ex-president settles defamation case, apologizes to former wife
Cate Sayers experienced extreme hurt and harm from false accusations made by her ex-husband in a statutory declaration.