Lehrmann faces legal action from ex-landlord over Sydney northern beaches pad

Fresh from his defamation defeat, Bruce Lehrmann is facing ineligible enactment implicit the erstwhile bluish beaches pad helium lived successful rent-free nether a woody with the Seven Network.

Lady Gaenor Meakes, the proprietor of the Balgowlah spot wherever the erstwhile national Liberal staffer lived until recently, is pursuing Lehrmann successful the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. The substance is listed for a conciliation proceeding connected May 23 successful Sydney.

Bruce Lehrmann, pictured connected April 1 successful the Sydney suburb of Balgowlah.Credit: Wolter Peeters

Meakes was the spouse of champion sailor Mark Richards, a longtime skipper of Wild Oats XI. The precise quality of her enactment is not yet clear.

Lehrmann, who mislaid a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson past month, had his rent astatine the luxury spot covered by Seven.

During the defamation case, the Federal Court heard Seven spent astir $100,000 paying Lehrmann’s rent for a twelvemonth to April 2024 nether an exclusive interrogation deal.

Lady Gaenor Meakes.

Lehrmann has until May 31 to record immoderate announcement of entreaty against Justice Michael Lee’s determination to disregard his suit implicit an interrogation with Lehrmann’s erstwhile workfellow Brittany Higgins, broadcast connected Ten’s The Project successful 2021, and helmed by Wilkinson.

He had claimed the study defamed him by suggesting helium was blameworthy of intersexual assault.

Lee recovered Ten and Wilkinson had proven to the civilian modular – connected the equilibrium of probabilities – that Lehrmann raped Higgins successful Parliament House successful March 2019 erstwhile they were moving arsenic staffers to Liberal legislator Linda Reynolds, who was past the defence manufacture minister.

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