Australia's richest person attempts to stop TV show

Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is trying to stop the second part of a television program about her life from airing, her lawyers said on Friday.

Australia's wealthiest person and the sixth richest woman in the world has launched a court action to stop part two of the Nine Network's House Of Hancock, due to be aired on Sunday night.

Her lawyers told the New South Wales Supreme Court that the second and final episode could be potentially defamatory and malicious, and have demanded a copy to determine if there are grounds to stop it going to air.

The first part, aired last Sunday night, portrayed details about her childhood and her father, the late iron ore magnate Lang Hancock.

Hancock Prospecting executive director Tad Watroba said "many scenes were fictitious, unfounded or grossly distorted" and was " damaging the memory of good Australians."

Rinehart's lawyer Tom Blackburn told the court on Friday that one of the show's producers had admitted in an interview that some of the scenes had been made up, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

"It is apparent Channel Nine knows some of it is made up," Blackburn said.

The second part is reported to detail a bitter family feud, which developed in Rinehart's family after her father died.

The Forbes magazine estimated Rinehart's wealth at 17.6 billion U.S. dollars last year. Endi