11-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
The dramatic press release, broken friendship and Luxe Listings drama
There has been an update in the legal/media/court of public opinion/war of attrition between two Cranbrook old boys, Ben Scott and James Kennedy.
The lads were behind the high-end property reality show Luxe Listings before their relationship imploded in claim and counterclaim.
We previously summarised the two gentlemen's beef thus: Scott claimed Kennedy had breached his duties as a co-director of their production company Kentel Australasia by selling Luxe Listings to Amazon for a song, and that he had secretly used the TV program as product placement for the Rolex and Patek Philippe watches his business sells. Kennedy denies the claims, of course.
Now it is lawyers and PR agencies at 10 paces after a dramatic press release from Scott's camp pinged into inboxes with the headline 'NSW Court Blocks James Kennedy's Attempt to Shut Down Luxe Listings Lawsuit'.
Weeeell, not quite.
Scott himself supplied quotes in the release issued on behalf of his lawyer, Sharangan Maheswaran, of XD LAW.
'This entire exercise has likely cost James Kennedy hundreds of thousands of dollars and has only stalled the inevitable,' said Scott, who has also been in the news in unconnected stories related to his friendship with Fadi Ibrahim, of the Sydney celebrity family.
'This all appears to be a desperate attempt by Kennedy to shield his communications with Rolex from scrutiny,' Scott said.
