"He told us one good story which we adapted and used in an episode in season one. As a result,it was agreed that he should be credited as co-creator."

Mr Roxburgh said that idea was Mr Waterstreet's sole creative contribution toRakeand he had"precisely zero creative input"in later seasons.

Mr Waterstreet fired back that Mr Roxburgh was"a brilliant actor but poor historian".

He pointed to a 2008 episode ofAustralian Story that had Roxburgh saying he would be playing"a younger,much more dashing and handsome version of Charles"in a series loosely based on Mr Waterstreet's life.

This week Ms ​​Huang sparked an outcry after claiming that after accepting a position as a paralegal and personal assistant,Mr Waterstreet showed her a video on his phone of a man participating in a sex act as well as photos of naked women,described how he liked to go to sex parties,enjoyed having women snort cocaine off his body and revealed he preferred to hire"pretty young things"to work for him.

The controversy over articles published on theNew Matilda web site led to the university banning advertising by by Mr Waterstreet's chambers on its CareerHub website.

Ms Huang wrote in one that she wanted to call out men like Mr Waterstreet.

"They think they are liberating us – by giving us work and good pay – but we are liberated only to be oppressed in other ways,"she wrote.

In a lengthy written response,Mr Waterstreet admitted that one of his many flaws was making a joke of everything.

"Much of my writing and general persona involves irony and the'pricking of balloons'where intolerance and hypocrisy are concerned,"he said."My alleged sense of humour has not served me as well as I would like."

Mr Waterstreet said he discussed with Ms Huang and other assistants his cases - many of which involved sex - his writing forPenthouse magazine,an upcoming talk at Sydney Contemporary for a panel calledPost Porn:Art,Feminism and Sex in the Age of the Internet,and communications from his legal,literary and private life.

"I would have discussed and shown her illustrations of cases and materials for my publication,"he said. ​

Mr Waterstreet said the reference to women snorting cocaine off his body was"a joke I fondly tell,since I have been sober for 21 years with respect to alcohol and illicit drugs"and he had never been invited to a sex party.

He described his supposed hiring of"pretty young things"as a myth emanating from"a flippant throwaway line first made by one of my assistants"during an interview for a newspaper article in 2014.

Ms Huang told Fairfax Media she"wanted to speak out because I like to think we are in a cultural moment of change".

"I first thought about speaking out when I was scrolling through the stuff on[disgraced Hollywood producer] Harvey Weinstein and it dawned upon me that it is actually now possible for women to break through their own fear and solitude and to speak truth to power,"she said.

Ms Huang said she was"proud of the University of Sydney ... for standing with victims of sexual harassment"and announcing it would not accept the barrister's ads on CareerHub.

"If this announcement protects even one student from harassment at the hands of Waterstreet,then make no mistake,everything we did ... will have been worth it,"she said.

Mr Waterstreet has been approached to respond to Mr Roxburgh's comments.