After winning a protracted court struggle against her mother, international pop sensation Vanessa Amorosi will have even more reason to rejoice on her birthday.
Today is Amorosi’s 43rd birthday.
She filed a lawsuit against Joyleen Robinson in the Victorian Supreme Court, claiming full ownership of two homes she acquired as a result of her business success.
The first was Robinson’s eight-hectare home in Melbourne’s southeast suburb of Narre Warren, and the second was Amorosi’s current California home.
Robinson maintained that since she had given her daughter the $650,000 they had agreed upon back in 2001, the Narre Warren property should be hers.
However, Supreme Court Justice Steven Moore declared on Thursday that Amorosi should be the only owner of the Narre Warren property and that the purported agreement between the two never took place.
Judge Moore also determined that Amorosi ought to be the exclusive owner of her Californian residence, but Robinson was also ordered to get nearly $900,000 in reparations from Amorosi.
When Amorosi filed a case against Robinson in the Supreme Court in March 2021, the legal dispute got underway.
Amorosi and her mother both testified during the course of a five-day trial in October, with the singer pausing occasionally to wipe away tears and gather herself.
Amorosi stated that all of her earnings as a singer-songwriter were placed into a trust account, which provided the $650,000 needed to buy the Narre Warren house in 2001.
Robinson said that Amorosi had promised to give her complete ownership of the Narre Warren mansion in exchange for $650,000, and that the house was jointly owned by her and her mother.
Robinson insisted that the deal was struck in February 2001 during a discussion in their previous home’s kitchen.
Robinson asserted that she kept her half of the housing agreement when she gave Amorosi $710,000 in 2014 in exchange for the loan she took out on her American house.
However, Amorosi informed the court that since there was never a contract in place, she should be the only owner.
In addition, the singer claimed exclusive ownership of her present Californian home, which she obtained through a trust fund her mother had established.
“It is entirely unsurprising that some of Amorosi’s evidence about conversations she had with her mother more than 20 years ago when she was an 18-year-old touring the world as an international pop star was general and non-specific,” he stated.
Judge Moore likewise determined that Amorosi should be the exclusive owner of her Californian residence, but he also concurred that Robinson ought to be compensated for the 2014 gift she made to Amorosi’s property.
He mandated that Amorosi give her mother $650,000 in addition to interest of $219,486.33.
Joel Fetter, Amorosi’s attorney, said that his client was still in the United States when Amorosi failed to appear in court for today’s ruling.
Robinson was not present either, though a few of her relatives were present in court.
