Living in Sydney, in a house valued at 3 million dollars, driving a bullet-proof Bentley, that’s alright for starters. Add to this, remodeling your nightclub every 5 years at $400,000 a pop, being surrounded by chic models, and dating classy socialites like Chelsea Mitchell. Need I include mention of his having dark, attractive good looks, and still being under 40! Doesn’t John Ibrahim – and his lifestyle – make every Australian male drool?
This real-life Mills and Boon character has overcome poverty and a near death experience to amass a fortune and break into high society. He’s a glamorous Australian achiever, isn’t he?! Is it any wonder then, that in the latest TV series of Underbelly, set to deliver a dramatised expose on organised crime and police corruption in Sydney’s King’s Cross from 1988-95; that our Mr Ibrahim will be presented royally.
Why is it that Justice Peter Young, at the close of a NSW Supreme Court hearing this month, suggested that it was a shame that Mr Ibrahim would be presented so well, after he had previewed the new series in relation to a defamation case against Channel 9?
Mysteriously untainted by his long involvement with the filthiest parts of society, Mr Ibrahim also known as the ‘King of the Cross’, manages to sparkle like a well-faceted diamond in the media. In contrast, Wendy Halfield, the working woman who had her head turned by our charismatic hero, will find herself in the stocks again.
Scarlet Wendy was a police officer who made bad choices. Channel 9′s Underbelly producers of the ‘The Golden Mile’, don’t want her to forget that. In bringing the defamation case against Channel 9, Wendy tried to defend herself, and failed. She fears that the producers of the show will shred what remains of her reputation, unfairly. But what of John, will the new series of Underbelly increase his stocks?
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