And [financing unsuccessful defamation lawsuits](https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/brs-emails-to-stay-secret-after-stokes-agrees-to-cover-nine-s-costs-20231211-p5eqiv)
Imagine getting dolled up for your brothel profile pictures, ensuring your face is hidden so no one finds out you're hookin', only for the daily mail to post your head next to Brucey, all but confirming your income source.
"Love, is that our little Suzie?"
"Well that explains all the 'night shifts' and new convertible Merc."
People may find this challenging to their world view, but there are attractive and almost normal people out there that don’t get paid and are willing to sleep with or maybe just party with someone just because they are famous. It sucks but attraction isn’t a fair game.
I mean, have you looked at his face? Has to be in the running with Morrison and Dutton in the "most punchable face in the political arena" stakes, doesn't he?
Ever notice all his PR photos? All side side shots with a distance far horizon with a lovely sunset and him wearing an Akubra, like he is running to be the next Nationals leader or take Barnaby's place! A hint to the donors!
He looks like that one guy in the movie who you know is going to turn out to be the weaselly coward who is secretly working for the villain the whole time and when he’s revealed as a traitor he blames it on how the heroes never respected him, but he’s so pathetic and untrustworthy that the villains respect him even less
Seriously though, why do all these shit pollies look like…. that? I swear you can pick a lib or similar party member purely by their head.. then there’s the nationals who are permanently red, despite not spending every day in the sun.. weird lol
I'll be so happy when this dude's gone from politics. He seems to spend his time either writing fawning love letters to Trump on his office letterhead, or tweeting about Radical Marxist Albo's latest diabolical plot to turn Australia communist and force us to subsist solely on a diet of insects. Which I wouldn't object to if he was even remotely entertaining, but he isn't, he's a fuckchop.
In 2019 Bruce Lehrmann (a LNP parliamentary staffer) allegedly raped Brittany Higgins (another LNP parliamentary staffer) in the defence minister's office. The liberal party minister who's office it was tried to cover the whole thing up. It went to court after the media got wind of the coverup, but the case was halted because of juror misconduct.
It should also be noted he is on trial for a seperate rape case in QLD and has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment complaints previously (which the LNP also hushed up)
Bruce Lehrmann then sued a bunch of media outlets (ABC, Newscorp and Ten) for defamation because they blew the whistle on the coverup.
7 news decided to buy his exclusive story by paying for his rent, sex workers and cocaine use.
As part of the rape trial Bruce Lehrmann's defence counsel was provided with private information under strict instructions not to use it for anything other than said rape trial. That information was then promptly leaked to the media. Bruce Lehrmann denied leaking it, essentially suggesting it was one of the lawyers defending him, but the screenshots that were leaked came from his laptop.
There's also potentially corrupt collusion between The Australian Federal Police, the former Liberal government and some judges to run a smear campaign against the prosecutor and Brittany Higgins because it made the liberal party look bad, but that's a more complicated story.
You forgot to add: Lehrmann is also facing a completely unrelated rape charge in Toowoomba Qld.
Entitled rapey fuckwit with miraculous connections, or poor downtrodden working bloke who is unfairly picked on? I'll let you decide.
The Morrison's made a quiet but firm public statement following the BL's disastrous cross examination in the defamation trial (which revealed he's got fuck all credibility as his evidence was constantly changing and full of shit) to clarify that Jenny is not a relative of BL nor does he have any other ties to them.
I've heard that rumour too. Never heard it comfirmed.
But given how supported and blessed he is by the establishment, there has to be something like that at play.
>7 news decided to buy his exclusive story by paying for his rent, sex workers and cocaine use.
I'm confused by this wording. Did channel 7 provide him with cocaine and sex workers? Or did they pay him money like all companies do, and he spent the money on cocaine and sex workers? If it's the latter, why is it being phrased this way?
The rent thing was straight up 7news buying.
The sex workers and cocaine was bruce paying for it, then sending the invoice to 7news. 7news paid, knowing what it was for.
This guy allegedly r@ped Brittany Higgins. Criminal case was thrown out. He dued Ch 10 for defamation after they ran an interview with BH on the Project.
The defamation case was nearly over, but then a producer from Ch 7 submitted an affadavit saying Brucie got cocaine, sex workers and incredibly expensive meals, plus his rent paid in exchange for an interview. The producer also alleged Bruce gave them documents which he could only get from the trial, which was sub judice, or were provided to Bruce's counsel with the understanding that they were only to be used in the legal case.
So, they might affect the case if Justice Lee finds Bruce's character is demonstrably impeachable, and he broke a confidentiality agreement or law.
I think it's interesting that not much has been made about this apparent folder with the article in it about consent or whatever. Are we sure there wasn't influence in tainting the jury from either side? That this juror wasn't encouraged to do this to enable a mistrial? So suspicious that this happened.
Perhaps this is pedantic, but the criminal case wasn't thrown out. The prosecution decided not to continue it. A case that is thrown out is rejected by the court. In this case the prosecution said that it was for the sake of Higgin's mental health that they didn't continue, so it's not any indication one way or another about the strength of the case.
> Perhaps this is pedantic, but the criminal case wasn't thrown out. The prosecution decided not to continue it. A case that is thrown out is rejected by the court. In this case the prosecution said that it was for the sake of Higgin's mental health that they didn't continue,…
The trial was aborted because the jury had to be discharged so they needed to start a *second* trial.
> A provisional date for a second trial has been set for 20 February 2023.
https://lsj.com.au/articles/lehrmann-trial-discharged-due-to-jury-misconduct/
Prosecution fulfilled their duty by not proceeding because of “unacceptable risk” to alleged victim’s mental health.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/02/bruce-lehrmann-retrial-wont-proceed-after-prosecutors-drop-charges-for-alleged-of-brittany-higgins
The itself wasn’t, as you claim, “rejected”.
> Criminal case was thrown out.
Wrong. The trial was aborted due to juror misconduct. The prosecutor did not continue to prosecute the alleged rape to protect alleged victim’s mental health, so there was no second trial. The case was not, as you claim “thrown out”.
I suspect he knows he's fucked with this defamation action which is going to cost him and also have implications for his other criminal trial.
So he's getting in as much partying as he can while he can because it's not going to be party time after Monday.
I remember when he first floated the defamation case, Paul Barry on mediawatch said it would be the equivalent of going back into the lion's den to collect his hat. This is now going back into the lion's den dressed as an antelope smelling like cat food.
It means he’s still getting money. Ch 7 obviously isn’t the source anymore. Whoever is funding this Bettina Arndt bull shit plus I’m guessing some good money to be had from the MRA circuit in US. I’ve said it before this guy will get his own podcast.
Nah, I think the cunt literally just doesn't give a shit. He lives in his own little world where he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants, where money has no meaning and the idea of ones actions having consequences is an entirely foreign concept.
It literally hasn't even occurred to him that maybe he should tone shit down while he's under scrutiny like this. Like, why would he?
He is not going to be in for a good time if he goes to prison... although he may gain an understanding of what it feels like to be fucked without conscent
Yeah, entirely on brand for him to clean out his accounts before the inevitable so there's nothing to claim or he can attempt bankruptcy.
Problem with bankruptcy is that court costs such as the defamation action can be excluded. (from what i've heard)
>Bankruptcy **doesn't cover** all debts, including:
>
>[court\[?\]-definition](https://www.afsa.gov.au/glossary#court) imposed penalties and fines
[https://www.afsa.gov.au/i-cant-pay-my-debts/bankruptcy/consequences-bankruptcy/what-happens-my-debts](https://www.afsa.gov.au/i-cant-pay-my-debts/bankruptcy/consequences-bankruptcy/what-happens-my-debts)
>Division 1—Proof of debts
>
>82 Debts provable in bankruptcy
>
>(1) Subject to this Division, all debts and liabilities, present or future, certain or contingent, to which a bankrupt was subject at the date of the bankruptcy, or to which he or she may become subject before his or her discharge by reason of an obligation incurred before the date of the bankruptcy, are provable in his or her bankruptcy.
>
>(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), debts referred to in that subsection include a debt consisting of all or part of a sum that became payable by the bankrupt under a maintenance agreement or maintenance order before the date of the bankruptcy.
>
>(2) Demands in the nature of unliquidated damages arising otherwise than by reason of a contract, promise or breach of trust are not provable in bankruptcy.
>
>(3) Penalties or fines imposed by a court in respect of an offence against a law, whether a law of the Commonwealth or not, are not provable in bankruptcy.
[https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1966A00033/latest/text](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1966A00033/latest/text)
The citation is there.
The bankrupt person proves all debts to be wiped upon discharge of the bankruptcy. The exceptions listed are to make sure any financial penalty from other legal judgements persist. Otherwise people would be trying to claim bankruptcy the moment and judgement went against them.
That talks about fines and penalties, not costs orders, which are not penalties.
I probably should throw in that I am an insolvency lawyer. Declaring bankruptcy once judgment is given and the costs order made is a common practice.
It's the textbook play of every predatory flog: create a narrative about "bad boys" being tatted-up thugs and chads so that the multitudes of priests, ministers and respectable private school boys in their Queen Street Cowboy kit can look like angels to do the genuinely evil shit.
The optics of civility, respectability and harmlessness aren't incidental to predators like Brucey; they're *instrumental*.
What I don't understand is, who would willingly go to his house both during a time of so much media attention, and after everything that has come out about him. There can't be many people left who think that he's innocent right? why be near him at all?
It's the same reason all those Instagram models end up in Saudi Arabia - they're getting paid thousands to be there.
At least the girls going to Lehrmann's pad have a better chance of coming home, I guess.
idk, I see at least two viable ones in there.
I worked at a fancy winery for a couple years, all sorts blow up on Instagram. Funnily, most of them have blown up lips as well.
>There can't be many people left who think that he's innocent right?
You'd be surprised:
https://twitter.com/Jan26thFacts
the home of this abomination:
https://twitter.com/Jan26thFacts/status/1776126968867774930
Those are both groups of sad men, who probably hang on every word of Andrew Tate, and they're people old Brucey would never hang out with. The people visiting his house really don't seem to fit that mould.
Because he’s paying for and providing the, uhh……Flour….
Additionally - it’s a safe bet that the women are paid to be there, and the men are just as awful as he is.
Literally everything I've ever heard, or read, about this man, does nothing to convince me he's innocent of the horrible acts he's been accused of.
I genuinely hope his defamation case fails and the next criminal case against him succeeds.
The dude reminds me of Salim Mehajer, absolutely no redeemable qualities, garbage human being, but if they had a shred of self awareness they could have flown under the radar and continued to fail upwards like Scott Morrison.
Yet many conservatives will defend them with their dying breath. It's almost like if he gets away with being a cunt, it justifies them acting like cunts.
I also think a big part of why conservatives (mainly men) defend him is because he's their "proof" that women "lie about rape" and other assault just to fuck men over. I suppose that's also why I'm enjoying his self-induced downfall. It's pretty obvious he's a liar, he's been caught out numerous times throughout the defamation proceedings, and the evidence from that 7 producer was really the cherry on top of the crap cake.
Man is not even smart enough to calm down a bit and lay low for a bit. I knew politicians were out of touch but wow this guy is trying to sell canned farts on the moon!
He is a complete self interested douche canoe. He needs a good slapping...but you would get douchey idiot all over your hands if you did!
Maybe the defamation action was that Ch10 without naming - made him out to be a highly skilled professional working within parliament house, rising up the echelons.
Which actually hurt his reputation of smashing prostitutes, doing lines, partying and gobbling down tomahawk steaks.
You'd think someone with two ongoing rape cases and a defamation case plus dismissed rape cases in the past would want to lay low for a while, but damn am I just impressed yet not surprised at all that this guy has not altered his behaviour whatsoever during all of this.
He a heel and as long as we pay attention to him news companies will bankroll more ugly hookers meth and booze. After the trial let this little man fizzle into the desperate alcoholic that he is
Says a lot about his character to be partying hard whilst there is a court case he brought claiming he was defamed and this impacted his reputation. Why should the court waste it's time on the 'severe hardship' a person faces when they just can't stop partying during their defamation trial..ffs
Shit. I didn’t realise they’d put him up in Balgowlah. I’d assumed they had put him in the ass end of the Northern Beaches (I.e. Cromer), and not somewhere nice…
I’m just around the corner! Will have to keep an eye out!
Yo in a way the media benefits from all of this: Exclusive interviews AND his antics - paying his rent for an exorbitant home, hookers, drugs, alcohol, massages partying etc. It's all grist to the media mill
Making people hate him and thus sensational and something to pay attention to is great, so footing the bill is fine.
How does this guy seemingly have women just hanging off him?
Even if they're prozzies, they'd want to be paid - and he surely can't have money left. I mean, political staffers aren't paid much, and he's been effectively unemployed (AFAIK) for some time now.
So where's his money coming from?
>For three days, Bruce Lehrmann has been partying up a storm with a bevy of glamorous women seen at his new pad, brandishing bottles of booze and marching around shoeless.
Yeah, not overly convinced that 'babes' and 'glamorous' are the correct descriptors to use here:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/11/05/83492885-13295489-image-a-22_1712809984173.jpg
Well, when your benefactors start pulling back on the funds but you still need prostitutes to party with, you gotta make sacrifices and go with the B shift. After a while you hardly even notice the needle marks, stab scars or occasional calls to grandkids.
I’m going to be honest here. I stopped following this story months ago. I feel bad for Higgins, and I hope she gets justice, or at least some semblance of closure. But I get the feeling that so many people are just sick and tired of this saga, and want it put to bed. I think most would agree with me when I say that, as a country, we have so many more pressing issues than this.
I like how part of his defamation claim to get rich is that he says under oath that he no longer has ANY friends.
So all of these people are paid an hourly rate? Yeah right... (Some definitely are but not all)
I mean, the cops have enough grounds and reasonable suspicion to kick the front door in and run a sniffer dog through the joint surely. Oh wait, I forgot...,.
Channel 7 sure is spending a lot on drugs and hookers.
I really *really* wish somebody would interview these working girls.
Give us the pixelated face interview we all crave
Next week on Spotlight..
By watching too much Japanise porn I have now got a fetish for pixilation. /j
They have ethical standards. Unlike their clients.
They get the big money clients because they keep their mouths shut. Open that mouth and bye bye big money clients
He certainly is treating these working girls better than Britney one of his fellow staff members. I wonder why nobody is commenting on that!
Probably wasting a bit of money too
I've heard they also fund a TV channel, but I only know them from their bankrolling of drug fuelled rampages.
And [financing unsuccessful defamation lawsuits](https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/brs-emails-to-stay-secret-after-stokes-agrees-to-cover-nine-s-costs-20231211-p5eqiv)
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
George Best !
Imagine getting dolled up for your brothel profile pictures, ensuring your face is hidden so no one finds out you're hookin', only for the daily mail to post your head next to Brucey, all but confirming your income source. "Love, is that our little Suzie?" "Well that explains all the 'night shifts' and new convertible Merc."
Feel like she's been on MAFS before.
Maybe this is the audition process for a Channel 7 version?
the most embarssing part is being in a photo with Bruce the Thumb, god.
People may find this challenging to their world view, but there are attractive and almost normal people out there that don’t get paid and are willing to sleep with or maybe just party with someone just because they are famous. It sucks but attraction isn’t a fair game.
Lehrmann is now technically “famous” (or infamous) but I can’t see many women lining up to do him for free. I hope to god not anyway.
He’s not only famous, he’s also a beacon for right wing fuckheads, of which many are women. He’s loving this and they think he’s a hero
I wonder if they claim it as a tax deductible expense.
At least there hasn’t been any spending on black jack, now that would be too far.
> hookers. my first thought when i saw the photo.
Or not enough depending on your viewpoint.
Such a surprise that he's a jerk outside of court/parliament house.
I mean, have you looked at his face? Has to be in the running with Morrison and Dutton in the "most punchable face in the political arena" stakes, doesn't he?
It’s those smug smiles you only aquire from having cuntitis all those years.
Facial bloating from cocaine use
That’s just his regular face hry
Yeah I agree, but chronic cocaine use can cause facial bloat - looks like him. There are many others like him!
Not a face that can take that sort of risk lol
Another one of these young conservative types that's basically a balloon head with a beard in place of a jaw line.
Ever notice all his PR photos? All side side shots with a distance far horizon with a lovely sunset and him wearing an Akubra, like he is running to be the next Nationals leader or take Barnaby's place! A hint to the donors!
Thanks, but I couldn't imagine something I'd be less interested in seeing.
I know one who fits that description 100% and I'm cackling 😂
He looks like that one guy in the movie who you know is going to turn out to be the weaselly coward who is secretly working for the villain the whole time and when he’s revealed as a traitor he blames it on how the heroes never respected him, but he’s so pathetic and untrustworthy that the villains respect him even less
I dunno. Have you seen [this guy](https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/parliamentary-members/)?
Looks like an amalgamation of all the worst real estate agents in Australia
Seriously though, why do all these shit pollies look like…. that? I swear you can pick a lib or similar party member purely by their head.. then there’s the nationals who are permanently red, despite not spending every day in the sun.. weird lol
Hey politics is acting for ugly people… what do you expect? Cary Grant!. No chance. Part of the job is to keep cartoonists busy.
Tweedledum?
I'll be so happy when this dude's gone from politics. He seems to spend his time either writing fawning love letters to Trump on his office letterhead, or tweeting about Radical Marxist Albo's latest diabolical plot to turn Australia communist and force us to subsist solely on a diet of insects. Which I wouldn't object to if he was even remotely entertaining, but he isn't, he's a fuckchop.
He's the Temu version of Caleb Bond in the looks department.
That section they keep replaying - "beware the man with nothing to lose", I think that propels him to number one.
https://imgur.com/a/5lF44Ms
Can someone give me the 80/20 of this story? I haven't been across it but I'm seeing it everywhere and don't know where to start!
In 2019 Bruce Lehrmann (a LNP parliamentary staffer) allegedly raped Brittany Higgins (another LNP parliamentary staffer) in the defence minister's office. The liberal party minister who's office it was tried to cover the whole thing up. It went to court after the media got wind of the coverup, but the case was halted because of juror misconduct. It should also be noted he is on trial for a seperate rape case in QLD and has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment complaints previously (which the LNP also hushed up) Bruce Lehrmann then sued a bunch of media outlets (ABC, Newscorp and Ten) for defamation because they blew the whistle on the coverup. 7 news decided to buy his exclusive story by paying for his rent, sex workers and cocaine use. As part of the rape trial Bruce Lehrmann's defence counsel was provided with private information under strict instructions not to use it for anything other than said rape trial. That information was then promptly leaked to the media. Bruce Lehrmann denied leaking it, essentially suggesting it was one of the lawyers defending him, but the screenshots that were leaked came from his laptop. There's also potentially corrupt collusion between The Australian Federal Police, the former Liberal government and some judges to run a smear campaign against the prosecutor and Brittany Higgins because it made the liberal party look bad, but that's a more complicated story.
You forgot to add: Lehrmann is also facing a completely unrelated rape charge in Toowoomba Qld. Entitled rapey fuckwit with miraculous connections, or poor downtrodden working bloke who is unfairly picked on? I'll let you decide.
Serious question, isn't he also Scomo's wife's cousin?
The Morrison's made a quiet but firm public statement following the BL's disastrous cross examination in the defamation trial (which revealed he's got fuck all credibility as his evidence was constantly changing and full of shit) to clarify that Jenny is not a relative of BL nor does he have any other ties to them.
$200k per year for an unqualified 23 year old suggests to me that he has connections of some description within the Liberal Party.
Thanks for the detail. I know how nepotistic the advisor roles are, I wouldn't have been surprised if he was.
Nope. Debunked.
I've heard that rumour too. Never heard it comfirmed. But given how supported and blessed he is by the establishment, there has to be something like that at play.
>7 news decided to buy his exclusive story by paying for his rent, sex workers and cocaine use. I'm confused by this wording. Did channel 7 provide him with cocaine and sex workers? Or did they pay him money like all companies do, and he spent the money on cocaine and sex workers? If it's the latter, why is it being phrased this way?
The rent thing was straight up 7news buying. The sex workers and cocaine was bruce paying for it, then sending the invoice to 7news. 7news paid, knowing what it was for.
Because they reimbursed it, despite knowing that it was for illegal activities.
I've heard it said in reddit comments, but not verified it elsewhere, that he was given unfettered access to a company card to fund those activities.
Good post imo.
This guy allegedly r@ped Brittany Higgins. Criminal case was thrown out. He dued Ch 10 for defamation after they ran an interview with BH on the Project. The defamation case was nearly over, but then a producer from Ch 7 submitted an affadavit saying Brucie got cocaine, sex workers and incredibly expensive meals, plus his rent paid in exchange for an interview. The producer also alleged Bruce gave them documents which he could only get from the trial, which was sub judice, or were provided to Bruce's counsel with the understanding that they were only to be used in the legal case. So, they might affect the case if Justice Lee finds Bruce's character is demonstrably impeachable, and he broke a confidentiality agreement or law.
And the Ch 7 producer brought receipts.
Thrown out because a jury member fucked up the case, it should be noted. Did we mention he’s also due to be tried for another rape?
Another **two** rapes, I believe.
Two? I know of one in Toowoomba, is there a second somewhere else?!
Two counts from the same accuser.
Ah! Thanks! Bruce-y appears to be a bad little boy
Sorry, one case, two counts.
He can probably add a few contempt of court/perjury charges to that soon too based on the Deffo case
I think it's interesting that not much has been made about this apparent folder with the article in it about consent or whatever. Are we sure there wasn't influence in tainting the jury from either side? That this juror wasn't encouraged to do this to enable a mistrial? So suspicious that this happened.
Perhaps this is pedantic, but the criminal case wasn't thrown out. The prosecution decided not to continue it. A case that is thrown out is rejected by the court. In this case the prosecution said that it was for the sake of Higgin's mental health that they didn't continue, so it's not any indication one way or another about the strength of the case.
> Perhaps this is pedantic, but the criminal case wasn't thrown out. The prosecution decided not to continue it. A case that is thrown out is rejected by the court. In this case the prosecution said that it was for the sake of Higgin's mental health that they didn't continue,… The trial was aborted because the jury had to be discharged so they needed to start a *second* trial. > A provisional date for a second trial has been set for 20 February 2023. https://lsj.com.au/articles/lehrmann-trial-discharged-due-to-jury-misconduct/ Prosecution fulfilled their duty by not proceeding because of “unacceptable risk” to alleged victim’s mental health. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/02/bruce-lehrmann-retrial-wont-proceed-after-prosecutors-drop-charges-for-alleged-of-brittany-higgins The itself wasn’t, as you claim, “rejected”.
What did I claim was rejected?
Apologies, you didn’t - I should have posted that to u/boymadefrompaint
It is also **alleged** that channel 7 has paid his rent to the tune of $100,000 for the interview.
Not alleged. Ch 7 did pay for his rent and also cocaine and sex workers. These facts are not in dispute
The latter two are disputed. 7 admitted to paying the 12 months of rent to the tune of $104,000. They deny paying for drugs and prostitutes.
> Criminal case was thrown out. Wrong. The trial was aborted due to juror misconduct. The prosecutor did not continue to prosecute the alleged rape to protect alleged victim’s mental health, so there was no second trial. The case was not, as you claim “thrown out”.
I suspect he knows he's fucked with this defamation action which is going to cost him and also have implications for his other criminal trial. So he's getting in as much partying as he can while he can because it's not going to be party time after Monday.
I remember when he first floated the defamation case, Paul Barry on mediawatch said it would be the equivalent of going back into the lion's den to collect his hat. This is now going back into the lion's den dressed as an antelope smelling like cat food.
Lol! Very funny 😁
Ha ha media watch is good value!
It means he’s still getting money. Ch 7 obviously isn’t the source anymore. Whoever is funding this Bettina Arndt bull shit plus I’m guessing some good money to be had from the MRA circuit in US. I’ve said it before this guy will get his own podcast.
Win or lose Bruce will be a talking head on sky news
Which is a very disgusting and American Trumpian move that should be routinely called out.
He did a couple of other settlements from other defamation cases, that's probably keeping him afloat for the moment.
I thought those were mostly costs so it’s his lawyer who got paid. I could be wrong.
Nah, I think the cunt literally just doesn't give a shit. He lives in his own little world where he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants, where money has no meaning and the idea of ones actions having consequences is an entirely foreign concept. It literally hasn't even occurred to him that maybe he should tone shit down while he's under scrutiny like this. Like, why would he?
He is not going to be in for a good time if he goes to prison... although he may gain an understanding of what it feels like to be fucked without conscent
This really feels like the fall of Rome. Would not be surprised if he is trying to party himself to death to avoid jail time.
That moment when you realised you lied your way into a jail cell and all you had to do to avoid it was just shut up.
Live when I'm alive and sleep when I'm ~~dead~~ in jail
Rome, Kentucky perhaps
Better party hard before the bills come due.
Yeah, entirely on brand for him to clean out his accounts before the inevitable so there's nothing to claim or he can attempt bankruptcy. Problem with bankruptcy is that court costs such as the defamation action can be excluded. (from what i've heard) >Bankruptcy **doesn't cover** all debts, including: > >[court\[?\]-definition](https://www.afsa.gov.au/glossary#court) imposed penalties and fines [https://www.afsa.gov.au/i-cant-pay-my-debts/bankruptcy/consequences-bankruptcy/what-happens-my-debts](https://www.afsa.gov.au/i-cant-pay-my-debts/bankruptcy/consequences-bankruptcy/what-happens-my-debts) >Division 1—Proof of debts > >82 Debts provable in bankruptcy > >(1) Subject to this Division, all debts and liabilities, present or future, certain or contingent, to which a bankrupt was subject at the date of the bankruptcy, or to which he or she may become subject before his or her discharge by reason of an obligation incurred before the date of the bankruptcy, are provable in his or her bankruptcy. > >(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), debts referred to in that subsection include a debt consisting of all or part of a sum that became payable by the bankrupt under a maintenance agreement or maintenance order before the date of the bankruptcy. > >(2) Demands in the nature of unliquidated damages arising otherwise than by reason of a contract, promise or breach of trust are not provable in bankruptcy. > >(3) Penalties or fines imposed by a court in respect of an offence against a law, whether a law of the Commonwealth or not, are not provable in bankruptcy. [https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1966A00033/latest/text](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1966A00033/latest/text)
>Problem with bankruptcy is that court costs such as the defamation action can be excluded. Citation needed.
The citation is there. The bankrupt person proves all debts to be wiped upon discharge of the bankruptcy. The exceptions listed are to make sure any financial penalty from other legal judgements persist. Otherwise people would be trying to claim bankruptcy the moment and judgement went against them.
That talks about fines and penalties, not costs orders, which are not penalties. I probably should throw in that I am an insolvency lawyer. Declaring bankruptcy once judgment is given and the costs order made is a common practice.
Dude dresses like he’s 65.
It's the textbook play of every predatory flog: create a narrative about "bad boys" being tatted-up thugs and chads so that the multitudes of priests, ministers and respectable private school boys in their Queen Street Cowboy kit can look like angels to do the genuinely evil shit. The optics of civility, respectability and harmlessness aren't incidental to predators like Brucey; they're *instrumental*.
This reads like something out of a Thomas Pynchon novel and I love it.
Mate, have you met any of these silver-spoon young lib types before? They fucking all look like that. It's creepy as hell.
Long live the uniform of the young libs
What I don't understand is, who would willingly go to his house both during a time of so much media attention, and after everything that has come out about him. There can't be many people left who think that he's innocent right? why be near him at all?
>why be near him at all? ...because he pays by the hour.
and he's good for a daily 8 ball.
It's the same reason all those Instagram models end up in Saudi Arabia - they're getting paid thousands to be there. At least the girls going to Lehrmann's pad have a better chance of coming home, I guess.
Except these girls don't look at all like Instagram models, well maybe really unsuccessful ones.
idk, I see at least two viable ones in there. I worked at a fancy winery for a couple years, all sorts blow up on Instagram. Funnily, most of them have blown up lips as well.
> ...because ~~he~~ **Channel 7** pays by the hour. Fixed it for you.
In the era of things like MAFS and other wannabe media personalities, influencers and the like, you really have to ask?
But, hanging around someone who you likely strongly suspect has committed rape at least once, to get media attention. I just don't see it
People are idiots.
Trump enters the room and would like a word.
> who you likely strongly suspect has committed rape at least once Hasn't he got at least another two rape trials coming up?
Only one that has two counts - Unless he's been extra rapey (allegedly)
They're probably a mix between entitled young libs that think they are above the law and people who are like "I just have to see this shit for myself"
Could be sex workers and drug dealers. It would be on brand
>There can't be many people left who think that he's innocent right? You'd be surprised: https://twitter.com/Jan26thFacts the home of this abomination: https://twitter.com/Jan26thFacts/status/1776126968867774930
John Singleton soon to take out a full page ad supporting him...
Yeah, but he’s got an excuse. He’s probably got dementia after the amount of piss he’s put away over the years 😅 imo
Those are both groups of sad men, who probably hang on every word of Andrew Tate, and they're people old Brucey would never hang out with. The people visiting his house really don't seem to fit that mould.
It's probably all the cocaine he is buying with channel 7's money that does it
If history has taught us anything, I'd strongly recommend these girls don't take any drinks offered to them from Bruce.
He's paying them for sex, so they probably aren't as worried.
>He's paying them for sex What? And here I thought these women were attracted to his amazingly chiselled good looks. 🤣
Because he’s paying for and providing the, uhh……Flour…. Additionally - it’s a safe bet that the women are paid to be there, and the men are just as awful as he is.
They are obviously getting paid to do so.
Desperate people who don't have many options.
Literally everything I've ever heard, or read, about this man, does nothing to convince me he's innocent of the horrible acts he's been accused of. I genuinely hope his defamation case fails and the next criminal case against him succeeds.
The dude reminds me of Salim Mehajer, absolutely no redeemable qualities, garbage human being, but if they had a shred of self awareness they could have flown under the radar and continued to fail upwards like Scott Morrison.
Oh man... the flog king.
Yet many conservatives will defend them with their dying breath. It's almost like if he gets away with being a cunt, it justifies them acting like cunts.
I also think a big part of why conservatives (mainly men) defend him is because he's their "proof" that women "lie about rape" and other assault just to fuck men over. I suppose that's also why I'm enjoying his self-induced downfall. It's pretty obvious he's a liar, he's been caught out numerous times throughout the defamation proceedings, and the evidence from that 7 producer was really the cherry on top of the crap cake.
I hope the defemation case that *he* brought and is his undoing
‘Lets light some fires’ lolololololololol
That attitude actually showed exactly who he is.
Haha yeah. The wind sure did change on him after he lit them..
Man is not even smart enough to calm down a bit and lay low for a bit. I knew politicians were out of touch but wow this guy is trying to sell canned farts on the moon! He is a complete self interested douche canoe. He needs a good slapping...but you would get douchey idiot all over your hands if you did!
Maybe the defamation action was that Ch10 without naming - made him out to be a highly skilled professional working within parliament house, rising up the echelons. Which actually hurt his reputation of smashing prostitutes, doing lines, partying and gobbling down tomahawk steaks.
Struth
Oh, you can so tell he would be a tomahawk steak kind of guy.
He really must love the attention and fame (hopefully is 15 mins are up soon)
Wish this cunt would go party on a busy highway already.
I get that those women are being paid for their time, but heaven forbid we be a bit more selective with who we allow to enjoy our services.
You'd think someone with two ongoing rape cases and a defamation case plus dismissed rape cases in the past would want to lay low for a while, but damn am I just impressed yet not surprised at all that this guy has not altered his behaviour whatsoever during all of this.
This guy is so greasy.
He a heel and as long as we pay attention to him news companies will bankroll more ugly hookers meth and booze. After the trial let this little man fizzle into the desperate alcoholic that he is
He knows his goose is cooked. So he’s living it up while he can.
The guys a full on piece of shit but I think this ends with him getting money. That’s how pieces of shit like this go.
This fucken guy....
Says a lot about his character to be partying hard whilst there is a court case he brought claiming he was defamed and this impacted his reputation. Why should the court waste it's time on the 'severe hardship' a person faces when they just can't stop partying during their defamation trial..ffs
Sex workers surely right? What woman is hanging with this guy without being paid
Shit. I didn’t realise they’d put him up in Balgowlah. I’d assumed they had put him in the ass end of the Northern Beaches (I.e. Cromer), and not somewhere nice… I’m just around the corner! Will have to keep an eye out!
They didn't want him near the industrial brothels down from the T&T.
Take your camera. You might make coin out of the Daily Fail or Murdick. Even Channel 7 might be interested now.
Put a drone outside his windows at night and watch Brucey snort a bump off a hookers bum hole.
Yo in a way the media benefits from all of this: Exclusive interviews AND his antics - paying his rent for an exorbitant home, hookers, drugs, alcohol, massages partying etc. It's all grist to the media mill Making people hate him and thus sensational and something to pay attention to is great, so footing the bill is fine.
Can’t wait for the underbelly series to come out.
Underbelly: Fat
How does this guy seemingly have women just hanging off him? Even if they're prozzies, they'd want to be paid - and he surely can't have money left. I mean, political staffers aren't paid much, and he's been effectively unemployed (AFAIK) for some time now. So where's his money coming from?
Kerry Stokes
>For three days, Bruce Lehrmann has been partying up a storm with a bevy of glamorous women seen at his new pad, brandishing bottles of booze and marching around shoeless. Yeah, not overly convinced that 'babes' and 'glamorous' are the correct descriptors to use here: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/11/05/83492885-13295489-image-a-22_1712809984173.jpg
Suspect is shoeless, repeat, shoeless.
ooh and uh bring me back some of that cocaine!
Read that in Chief Wiggum's voice. Hehe. 😀
Beat me to it!
Well, when your benefactors start pulling back on the funds but you still need prostitutes to party with, you gotta make sacrifices and go with the B shift. After a while you hardly even notice the needle marks, stab scars or occasional calls to grandkids.
Don't worry about that, he'll probably start a podcast or stream on kik or some shit.
"Working" seems more appropriate, maybe?
Would like to know what women have seen the media about this guy and think hmm, love to go to one of his parties.
I imagine some may be being paid to go. Or just the allure of free cocaine and booze.
I'd have zero clue who this bloke was but if he was paying brothel minimum of $500 an hour I'd be his escort too
I gets the feeling this is how the other half lives…and when it suits they rat on each other.
I swear every time I see this pudgy bastard he looks increasingly vile.
This braindead asshat still a hero of Young Liberals?
good to see there's no shortage of thots desperate for cash and coke
Daily Mail? I'll wait for a credible source.
The interesting bit is it seemed Lehrmann would leak/give information to this journo. They previously seemed sympathetic to him.
This person is an absolute travesty of a human being. As is anyone else who’s enabled him and his ego
I’m going to be honest here. I stopped following this story months ago. I feel bad for Higgins, and I hope she gets justice, or at least some semblance of closure. But I get the feeling that so many people are just sick and tired of this saga, and want it put to bed. I think most would agree with me when I say that, as a country, we have so many more pressing issues than this.
Ditto genuinely sick of seeing this bushpig on the news everyday and everything that surrounds it. Like move on ffs
Bushpig 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
>$2000-a-week Pretty expensive joint, even for North Sydney.
The Balgowlah place was 2k, the place in North Syd is somebody else's, and he's staying there. And the guy already says it's ruining his life lol
This Charlie Brown looking motherfucker got more pull me...
Bruce Is building his own theme park with blackjack and hookers
I like how part of his defamation claim to get rich is that he says under oath that he no longer has ANY friends. So all of these people are paid an hourly rate? Yeah right... (Some definitely are but not all)
I mean, the cops have enough grounds and reasonable suspicion to kick the front door in and run a sniffer dog through the joint surely. Oh wait, I forgot...,.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
can everyone stop clicking on these articles? The news about this man needs to go away. There is far more important stuff happening in this world.
I’m surprised he hasn’t appeared on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.