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STORY ANGLES - Focuses on financial and legal troubles, particularly involving well-known entities or individuals. - Highlights human interest elements, such as family dynamics or community impact, within larger scandals.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Age
- Top 10K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 5, 2026
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How a 20-year partnership that built Melbourne’s suburbs ended in scorched earth (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. For 20 years, developers Rory Costelloe and his business partner Tony Johnson were the standard-bearers for housing developments on Melbourne’s fast-growing fringe. Together, they oversaw Villawood Properties, a group that currently has on foot 20 sprawling housing estates dotting the city’s outer edges, from Cranbourne to Tarneit, Armstrong Creek to Wallan and back to Clyde. Villawood’s promise o
Lygon Street royalty in court over mother’s estate (opens the original)
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The eldest son of one of Melbourne’s most established families, the Valmorbidas, has launched court action over the management of their late mother’s estate as a war brews over the distribution of the noted family’s assets. Italy-based Paul Valmorbida, the eldest son of patriarch Carlo Valmorbida and former partner of actress-singer Tottie Goldsmith, applied to the Supreme Court of Victoria this month to replace his brother, John Valmorbida, and his sister, Luisa Valmorbida, as executors of the
‘I realised that he’d been running a Ponzi scheme’: Business partner’s shock discovery (opens the original)
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The business partner of a man accused of operating a $100 million Ponzi scheme through an Ivanhoe law firm has told a court he discovered a secret cache of loan files stored in a cabinet in his colleague’s office after his death. Shane Maguire told a Melbourne court on Thursday that he found the files in the office of his long-time business partner and alleged Ponzi scheme operator John Adams after his sudden death in 2023 at his holiday house near Lorne. Maguire was called to give evidence by l
1800 Lasagne unlayered: How a cult Melbourne dining room hid a toxic workplace (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In 2020, as rolling lockdowns crippled the country’s live music scene, festival organiser Joey Kellock had a genius idea. He would lift inner-city spirits, and turn a dollar by cooking and delivering delicious Dial-A-Lasagne. Kellock’s business, 1800 Lasagne, was a roaring success, leading to a huge social media following and its own line of merchandise. By November 2020, the business – which had
‘Bigger than The Wolf of Wall Street’ boss breaks down after prison sentence (opens the original)
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An Australian financial trader who once described the investment scheme he was involved in as “bigger than” The Wolf of Wall Street sobbed after he was sentenced to at least two years in prison for embezzling nearly $700,000 in client funds. For years, Stavro D’Amore – the muscle-bound boss of one of Australia’s largest trading houses – cut an intimidating figure, frequently highlighting his gangland connections and flashy lifestyle, including owning several luxury McLaren cars each worth more t
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