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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
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Sydney Morning Herald
- Top 10K sites
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- Jul 11, 2026
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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
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
The spectacular downfall of Daniel Grollo, the one-time prince of property (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. Daniel Grollo, the recently bankrupt scion of property development group Grocon, flogged $1.145 million of his own furniture in five separate fire sales in the years before he went broke. The one-time property prince of Melbourne was left so skint he declared no real estate, collectables or jewellery of any value to his bankruptcy trustee in March, new documents reveal. Instead, Grollo said he had
Celebrity chef Scott Pickett finds new backer to secure livelihoods tied to his restaurant empire (opens the original)
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Celebrity chef Scott Pickett has found a new financier to back his restaurant empire as a report shows the estimated $14 million his venues received from collapsed investment scheme First Guardian will never be paid back. Melbourne investment managers Salter Brothers, which run a series of funds including hotel and restaurant funds holding investments exceeding $5.4 billion in value, have signed on as Pickett’s new financier. The deal is a welcome relief for the former MasterChef judge after the
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