Tech billionaire Richard White dragged into Mark Latham scandal
Mr Latham's lawyer Zali Burrows, who also acts for former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, has lodged a subpoena for 'communications' between the WiseTech co-founder and Ms Matthews in response to her domestic abuse allegations against the NSW independent MP.
Ms Matthews has also been served with a subpoena for her communications with Mr White. Mr White is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Mr Latham has emphatically denied his ex-girlfriend's abuse allegations, which include a claim he once defecated on her before sex, as 'comically false and ridiculous.'
News.com.au does not suggest these allegations are true, only that they have been made against a serving NSW MP and a court will hear the application later this month.
Mr White and Mr Latham and Ms Matthews have been contacted for comment.
'Invoices' for G-strings
In a separate development, fresh claims have emerged that Mr Latham borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from Ms Matthews before complaining after the couple broke up and she requested the return of personal items that 'you bought those things when you lived in the house rent free.'
There is no suggestion that Mr Latham did not return the money before the demise of the relationship.
He has not been charged with any offence.
In his only broadcast interview on the matter Mr Latham said that he was guilty of nothing more than being 'human' and 'male.'
'The big news is I had a private life. I had a sex life and I've got to say it was fantastic,'' Mr Latham said of the relationship.
But the NSW MP has dismissed as an elaborate 'in-joke' other invoices he sent her that included references to G-strings and used the acronym for LETS ROOT.
In Ms Matthew's AVO application she alleges Mr Latham borrowed $20,000 from her 'on four occasions without prompt repayment.'
In one transaction Ms Matthews transferred $20,000 to Mr Latham on October 11 last year and it's also understood Ms Matthews also covered at least $15,000 worth of hotels and restaurants for the couple.
The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday that that one email sent by Mr Latham in November 2023 to Ms Matthews titled: 'Latham Emergency Timely Storage Rental of Opportunists' Things', which serves as an acronym for 'LETS ROOT.'
'For: Services, Storage, Squatting, March-November 2023, itemised as follows…' the email from Mr Latham reads.
'42 nights accommodation for Nathalie Matthews (naked), 29 mornings breakfast-inner and other personal services… @$50 per night = $2,100. 'Three months storage of: two large computer screens, keyboards and cords, 11 dresses, one 'It's a Latham Thing' sloppy joe, 6 boxes of shoes (non-shiny), 9 G-strings, assorted lingerie… assorted smalls and toiletries = $2,900' his email read.
Mr Latham said there had to be payment 'within 21 days', otherwise stored materials would be 'thrown in the dam… or impounded permanently.'
In September 2024 Ms Matthews wrote twice to Mr Latham requesting amounts totalling $9,000 be returned.
But Mr Latham said on X on Friday that is was all an elaborate joke.
'Tele really have bottomed out with story today about Nathalie Matthews/Darrough/Abdullah/Bondi/Amber finances,'' he wrote.
'They are all of her aliases listed on this in-joke Invoice which, by the way, is numbered F*K0069.'
'Open relationship' claim
Mr Latham has told The Daily Telegraph the couple were always in an 'open' sexual relationship and that she was having sex with other people during the entire two-year relationship that he has described a 'situationship.'
'It was never a monogamous relationship,'' Mr Latham said.
Ms Matthews told friends last year that Mr Latham had proposed marriage and that the couple lived together in a de facto relationship.
'Pig' attack
Mr Latham was slammed as a 'pig' earlier this week after revelations he photographed female MPs at work and joked about having 'a threesome' with NSW Greens MP Abigail Boyd.
In one Instagram message sent to his former partner, Mr Latham shared a photo of Ms Boyd in the parliamentary chamber, taken without her knowledge.
He then shared a photo of Liberal MP Susan Carter taken from behind showing her full body and bottom, saying 'then it gets worse .... Grandma'.
The disparaging comments, which were included in a trove of leaked text exchanges with his ex-lover, were condemned by colleagues on Thursday.
'Mark Latham is a pig,' Housing Minister Rose Jackson said at a press conference.
She noted his previous attacks on campaigner Rosie Batty whose son was murdered in a domestic violence incident by his own father.
'This man has attacked Rosie Batty, telling her to grieve in private. This man is well known on the record, multiple times as a bigot – one of the biggest bigots in the state,' she said.
'It's extremely confronting for me to think that in a workplace there's someone who thinks it's acceptable to take photos of you and to share them with derogatory comments.'
Mr Latham has not denied the text messages but insisted they were playful banter with his ex-partner.
He has denied abusing Ms Matthews in any way, insisting all of their interactions were entirely consensual.
She has lodged a legal application for an order to prohibit Mr Latham from contacting her claiming a sustained pattern of abuse and coercive control.
'Pinched her bum'
In another leaked text exchange, Mr Latham wrote that Liberal MP Eleni Petinos 'looked pregnant' and then claimed to have 'pinched her bum lightly'.
But Ms Petinos told the Daily Telegraph that the incident never happened, and was 'an absolute fantasy'.
'That is not in the realms of possibility,' she said.
'Mark's attitude towards his colleagues is disgraceful - instead of showing respect he chooses to objectify and degrade.
'It's just grossly inappropriate - we don't walk around to be objectified everyday.'
Mr Latham insisted that his message about pinching the bottom of Ms Petinos was an 'in-joke'.
'Freak off' claims
Meanwhile, a Queensland sex worker claimed that Mr Latham and his then-girlfriend contacted her and even met with her at a ritzy event at Sydney's Randwick Racecourse.
Carly Electric said she suspected she was contacted because the couple wanted to hire her for a threesome.
In a message sent by Mr Latham to his now ex-girlfriend, he said Ms Electric was 'good rooter' and joked if she might want to be involved in a 'freak off' – the now infamous term used by Sean 'Diddy' Combs to describe threesomes where one person looks on.
'It was just implied … who comes to a sex worker and behaves this way?' Ms Electric said of the interactions.
Mr Latham dismissed the discussions of freak offs as 'a prank joke.'
'Just as the Tele today ran cherry-picked messages between me and Nathalie Matthews, with no context, missing in-jokes and pranks, they are at it again,'' he said.
'Often enough between consenting adults there are 10-20 messages leading up to a prank joke. Haha.'
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