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2026-09-16 · Daily Mail

Jackie O's manager gives cryptic response to relapse rumours... plus, an update on the Silvagnis' marriage - and an insider reveals moment Karl turned on Keshnee Kemp: INSIDE MAIL

🔮 So when rumours began circulating that the radio star may be drinking again, we went straight to her manager, Gemma O'Neill. assertive

2026-09-16 · Daily Mail

How a broke hospo worker living with his mum and dad secretly built a $2.1m darknet drug empire from his bedroom - and the elaborate police sting that brought him down

🔮 The court heard illicit goods from these darknet 'black markets' could only be bought with cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin or Monero. assertive

2026-09-20 · Daily Mail

Melbourne cricket community rocked after highly regarded cricket club life member charged with child sex crimes

🔮 McCraw, who was supported in court by a woman, is expected to appear in the County Court at a later date. assertive

2026-09-21 · Daily Mail

Magistrate blasts Melbourne marketing mum Christina Georgiou over 'despicable' $50,000 fraud: How a master's graduate with a drug debt ended up rorting Covid and flood relief schemes

🔮 'You're on the borderline of a Commonwealth suspended sentence which would... reflect a term of imprisonment,' Magistrate Burchill warned Georgiou. assertive

2026-09-22 · Daily Mail

'I can become anyone': University of Melbourne strips accused predator of scholarship and bans him from campus as alleged fake personas are laid bare in court

🔮 On Friday, Anthony Brooks, 33, fronted Melbourne Magistrates' Court where his request to vary his bail conditions so he could spend Christmas and most of the summer on the NSW coast was denied. mixed

2026-09-23 · Daily Mail

'No one will believe you': Melbourne woman admits raping male prison officer she met on Tinder as chilling messages, 99-call barrage and terrifying night are laid bare

🔮 The victim was 'worried' he would be doxxed - that is, have his personal information exposed online - because Dadd-Zammit had been in his house 'unsupervised with access to his private documents and things', the prosecution alleged. assertive

2026-09-23 · Daily Mail

Melbourne theatre circles rocked as young actor and footballer is charged with raping sleeping woman after night out at Lux nightclub

🔮 The second female witness said she asked the complainant what Gunguta did but initially she wouldn't say before eventually revealing the allegation. assertive

2026-09-29 · Daily Mail

'Two-faced b****': Melbourne love triangle ends with Byron Bay roustabout Eva Harrelson hitting friend as court hears of frantic bathroom call

🔮 Her matter will be discharged in 12 months if there are no further slip-ups. assertive

2026-09-29 · Daily Mail

Education giant Pearson rocked by $17.3million fraud claims: How a Melbourne royalties manager allegedly siphoned a fortune from the company

🔮 Adlard, who was supported in court by a female companion, had his bail extended and will front court at a later date It is understood Adlard worked as royalties manager for the Australian branch of Pearson, a London-based multinational also known as Pearson Learning Solutions The court heard that Adlard's defence team had made an offer to settle the matter to a plea of guilty, but the prosecution came back with a counter-offer. The prosecution's counter-offer was rejected, with the defence indicating it would make a counter-offer of its own in a bid to settle the matter at an early stage. Adlard was supported in court by a female companion. He had his bail extended and will appear in court at a later date. mixed

2026-10-02 · Daily Mail

Accused 'sex tourist' now faces 133 sickening child abuse charges after collapsing in court when Daily Mail was granted access to case documents

🔮 A suspected sex tourist who was rushed from court in an ambulance after learning the Daily Mail would be reporting on his alleged offending has just been hit with even more charges. assertive

2026-10-05 · Daily Mail

Sam Wood's neighbours at $3,000-a-night Noosa holiday villa reveal what they witnessed before DV charges were laid - as details emerge of the multi-millionaire's 'mental health concerns' in lockup

🔮 Wood, a multi-millionaire businessman and former Bachelor star, was allegedly staying at the property with his wife Snezana and the three children they share, Willow, 8, Charlie, 7, and Harper, 4. Snezana's 21-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, Eve, was also at the property. Neighbouring guests, who did not want to be named, told the Daily Mail they first became aware something was wrong when police and paramedics arrived at the complex on Saturday night. assertive

2026-10-05 · Daily Mail

Sam Wood's neighbours at $3,000-a-night Noosa holiday villa reveal what they witnessed before DV charges were laid - as details emerge of the multi-millionaire's 'mental health concerns' in lockup

2026-10-06 · Daily Mail

Eve Wood reconnects with estranged biological father after stepdad Sam was hit with DV charges - as her grandmother shuts down sick rumours circulating online

🔮 Wood, a Melbourne gym owner who made a fortune in the fitness industry when he sold his company, 28 by Sam Wood, to genomics and DNA testing company myDNA in 2022 for $71.2 million, was staying at the property with Snezana and the three children they share, Willow, eight, Charlie, seven, and Harper, four. assertive

2026-10-08 · Daily Mail

Bombshell new details about Sam Wood's alleged DV attack on his wife Snezana are revealed in court - as his daughter's 'hostile' role emerges and he pleads for bail

🔮 Celebrity fitness trainer Sam Wood may plead self-defence if domestic violence charges related to an alleged attack on his wife go to trial, a court has heard. assertive

2026-10-15 · Daily Mail

Melbourne dance community rocked after female teacher is hit with 33 child sex charges involving two students - with alleged offending said to span almost a decade

🔮 The teacher was granted an interim suppression order at a Melbourne court on Wednesday for reasons the Mail cannot disclose or it might risk revealing her identity. assertive

2026-10-16 · Daily Mail

'He's ruined lives': Melbourne couple who accused a notorious conman Josh Howlett of dodging debts are dragged to court in bizarre new twist after botched 'Vogue' shoot

🔮 Howlett claims he 'advised' Mr Etherington he would be paid once he had made amends for his behaviour. mixed

2026-10-23 · Daily Mail

Disgraced celebrity agent Ralph Carr lodges appeal against his rape conviction and sentence

🔮 Carr made the legal move on Tuesday after a close friend of the former agent-to-the-stars told the Daily Mail he would certainly appeal the conviction. However, Carr has almost no chance of having his matter heard before the end of the year, meaning he will spend Christmas behind bars. assertive

2026-10-23 · Daily Mail

Furious mum sues glamorous Oakleigh salon owner over teen daughter's $700 hair extensions as row over what was really agreed ends in tribunal showdown

🔮 Ms Chung sought $800 in damages from Ms Giuliano after her then 16-year-old daughter attended Salon Claudia Giuliano in Melbourne's south-east on May 17 last year. mixed

2026-10-26 · Daily Mail

Escalation in '$100,000 cocaine raid' that rocked Brighton: Ex-private schoolboy hit with two more charges as police allege drug debtors list found on phone

🔮 He expected to meet his client on Tuesday morning in an effort to resolve the matter. mixed

2026-10-28 · Daily Mail

Jo and Stephen Silvagni's fading hopes for son Tom in Melbourne's most feared prison revealed by insider - as his Christmas appeal hangs in the balance

🔮 Top criminal lawyer George Balot, of Balot Reilly Criminal Lawyers, separately told the Mail that it's 'too early to make a definitive prediction' on whether Silvagni's appeal will be determined in 2026. assertive

2026-11-01 · Daily Mail

Yugen Dining sommelier bashed girlfriend with a wine cooler during drunken row: Why a court found Lucas Chiche acted in 'excessive self-defence'

🔮 It must be denounced in the strongest terms, but for the fact that this was excessive self-defence, you most certainly would have been at risk of going to jail today. assertive

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