A NSW spiritual healer is suing a former client, saying she defamed him and portrayed him as the leader of a socially harmful cult who indecently touched her in his treatment room. The 54-year-old former tennis coach, Serge Isaac Benhayon, is suing Esther Mary Rockett on her November 2014 blog, two comments she later made on the blog, and 17 tweets. In the NSW Supreme Court, his barrister, Kieran Smark SC opened his case to the four-person jury highlighting some of Ms Rockett’s quotes including: “My claim that Benhayon is a sexual predator is not false.”
