He had lived most of his life in the family's Vaucluse home, bought by his parents for $1.65 million in 1997 and listed for sale in October 2016 for between $7.5 million and $8.25 million. 'I had what was perceived to be, and what many others perceived to be, the best graduate position. 'I essentially had the world at my feet,' Mr Lazarus told his sentencing hearing. Private schoolboy Luke Lazarus had the world at his feet before being charged with rape He had been working in marketing for beverage giant Lion immediately before his original conviction in March 2015. He had expected to one day be a CEOĪt the time he had sex with Ms Mullins, Mr Lazarus had been studying and working casually as a barman for his father. Mr Lazarus grew up surrounded by wealth and privilege within a respected Greek business family in Sydney's eastern suburbs. 'I actually wrote one once but I was told I shouldn't give it to her,' he said. Mr Lazarus told the broadcaster he wrote a letter to Ms Mullins but did not send it. 'My impression of you, from a distance, is that you are a rich kid, you're spoilt, you're powerful, you're someone who took advantage of a young 18-year-old girl who was drunk, who was a virgin, who didn't want to lose her virginity by having anal sex with a stranger,' Fordham said. 'It's been found my belief she was consenting was a reasonable one.'įordham told Mr Lazarus that in 'the court of public opinion' he was viewed as 'scum'. Several young people outside Luke Lazarus's then Vaucluse home on the morning after he was acquitted of raping Saxon Mullins hours after the acquittal, Mr Lazarus held a house party 'At the end of the day I've been found innocent.
'I think this whole night's regrettable,' Mr Lazarus told Fordham. Ms Saxon said she asked Mr Lazarus to stop. There had never been any dispute that Mr Lazarus had sex with Ms Mullins the only issue was whether she gave consent. 'I witnessed in front of me a woman participating in sex.'
'Her physical body language and everything she did physically told me that she wanted to be there,' he said. In that interview Mr Lazarus said he believed Ms Mullins had 'wanted to be there' when he had anal sex with the virgin four minutes after meeting her at Soho nightclub. He had remained silent when she recently went on Four Corners to discuss her ordeal but he called 2GB's Ben Fordham on Thursday to defend himself. Mr Lazarus complained at his original sentencing hearing that his life had been destroyed by Ms Saxon's allegations of rape. Ms Saxon was intoxicated and on all fours in an alley when Mr Lazarus had anal sex with her about 4am on May 12, 2013.
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