Miranda Kerr &
Orlando Bloom seemed chummy enough at Cannes, when they were pictured baring their pasty backs to the sun, and the more merciless lenses of the paparazzi. Now Miranda is explaining to the press that there's still no engagement ring. Apparently the rumours of their impending nuptials were greatly exaggerated, and in fact another false alarm! Miranda seems particularly concerned with how her parents are gonna take all these rumours, saying that it just something they have to deal with. If Miranda could stop being coy for 2 seconds she might have said that it's something else that they'll have to deal with. You see Miranda's mum has gotten herself in the middle of a fraud trail. The main participant is Miranda's former fiancee!
Back before Miranda ever dreamed of a Bloom connection, and when she was still a struggling young Aussie model with an ambitious mother, she was dating a financier called
Adrian Camilleri. Now Mr Camilleri didn't do anything like steal from the Pope and friends of
Bill Clinton. He filled a niche in Australia's financial market. Specifically he matched investors with borrows for short term high interest loans. Now that sounds a lot like loan sharking, but that's not what he's up for. It seems that he forgot to pay some of his investors back.
Specifically Camilleri forgot to pay back Brisbane couple
Winston and Charmaine Taylor the $123 000 they were owed. Naturally they phoned often to remind him. Each time the were assured that the check was in the mail. In fact the check was in Mr Camilleri's personal account, where it generated interest for at least 1 month!
Now Adrian can explain. This was all some mix up, and a mere clerical error. The check was supposed to be deposited into his solicitor's account. Besides one of his associates, a Mr Alexander, is accused of stealing $200 000 for the firm, and that unbalanced the books for awhile! Since Mr Camilleri can't really be blamed for any of these unfortunate circumstances, he's plead not guilty!
Where does Miranda's mom come into this sordid picture? Well she was the 'roper' who directed her well heeled friends and acquaintance towards Mr Camilleri. In fact Mr Camilleri claims that he received most of his contacts through Miranda's mom
Theresa. Since Adrian and Miranda were engaged to be married at the time, there didn't seem to be much harm in it. However it's probably left Theresa with some awkward explaining to do, like - "we never approved of him", & "we lost money too!" However in light of the fact these explanation don't even add up as well as Camilleri's books! So you see the engagement thing hasn't always worked out for poor Miranda, just like
Jennifer Aniston and
Anne Hathaway. Perhaps Orlando is awaiting the outcome of the Camilleri trial?
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