Australian pop star and LGBTQI+ icon Vanessa Amorosi has won a dramatic and bitter court battle against her own mother, Joyleen Robinson. The legal battle was over two properties that Robinson purchased using Amorosi’s music earnings. The property purchases were controlled by a trust that listed both Amorosi and Robinson as joint owners, but Amorosi sued her mother for sole ownership, saying it was her money that purchased the two homes.
One home was Amorosi’s current home in California in the US, and the other was a Narre Warren property in Melbourne, where Robinson has lived for two decades, Newscorp reported . Amorosi won the legal battle, with Justice Steven Moore saying the singer was “entitled” to assume sole control of the trusts. Vanessa Amorosi countersued by her mother Joyleen Robinson countersued her daughter, and claimed they had made a verbal “kitchen agreement” in 2001 that the Narre Warren home was bought for her.
However, the verbal agreement was also that if Amorosi ever experienced financial difficulties, Robinson would pay her the original price the Melbourne home was bought for: $650,000 AUD. Robinson said that she and her husband, Peter Robinson, have paid this. The evidence entered at trial said that they transferred $710,000 AUD to help pay Amorosi’s $1.
2 million Californian mortgage in 2014. Victoria Supreme Court says Amorosi “entitled” to her control her trust On Thursday, the case resumed at the Victorian Supreme Court. Justice Ste.