As salacious courtroom battles go, the legal drama involving a billionaire, his former Double Bay wellness entrepreneur mistress, and a $13.1 million Vaucluse mansion that was to be the pair’s alleged love nest, has it all. Linda Rogan , a one-time contender for T he Real Housewives of Sydney, is in the Federal Court challenging a bankruptcy order issued to her by WiseTech founder Richard White over nearly $100,000 she claims she spent furnishing the luxury Vaucluse home at his behest.
Linda Rogan is challenging a bankruptcy notice issued by Richard White. Credit: Nick Moir and Oscar Colman In the proceedings, Rogan also alleges White expected sex in return for investing in her business. She claims while White bought the Vaucluse pad for her to live in with her children, she was locked out after the logistics billionaire’s girlfriend, former bikie lawyer Zena Nasser, discovered their secret relationship.
All this tale needs now is a Liberal Party angle to make it peak eastern suburbs fodder. And so it has that too, with White scheduled to deliver the Shepherd Oration, a business talkfest organised by Liberal senator Andrew Bragg and named after the former hard-working Sydney corporate identity Tony Shepherd. For White’s sake, we hope the speech doesn’t turn into some kind of kiss of death.
In 2020, former Qantas boss Alan Joyce delivered it, and while correlation ain’t causation, the national carrier’s reputation began unravelling not long after that. If you thoug.
