A Philadelphia jury has found that former Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky was defamed during his combative 2019 retirement party.

The suit that the former columnist filed against The Philadelphia Inquirer and Inga Saffron, a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture columnist, stems from comments Saffron made about a 2011 column Bykofsky wrote, which she called "the infamous column about his taste for child prostitutes in Thailand." After media outlets both locally and nationally reported on Saffron's comments, which were recorded, Bykofsky sued Saffron and the paper.