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The notoriously private Rinehart is demanding a copy of The
House of Hancock, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
reported, in order to find material that could be used to obtain
an injunction and stop the show from airing.
The two-part series produced by Australia's Nine Network
dramatizes the personal life of Rinehart and her late father,
eccentric mining pioneer Lang Hancock.
Her attorneys petitioned the New South Wales state Supreme Court
for an urgent preliminary discovery, the ABC reported, in a bid
to see if there were grounds to have the second episode blocked
from airing.
The first part of the series ran last weekend and depicted
Rinehart's early life.
Her lawyer Tom Blackburn told the court that the second episode
may contain "malicious and defamatory" information about the
heiress, the ABC reported, despite not having seen it.
"It is apparent Channel Nine knows some of it is made up," he
said.
Rinehart, who inherited iron ore mines in Western Australia
state and rode the commodities boom to briefly become the
world's richest woman, has a reputation for litigiousness.
She is embroiled in a long-running legal battle with two of her
four children over control of a trust that holds 23.5 percent of
her mining vehicle, Hancock Prospecting.
(Reporting by Matt Siegel)
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