Disgraced TV star Andrew O’Keefe was spotted picking up a woman in his car in Sydney on Wednesday – and now his identity has been revealed.
In an unlikely twist, the woman has been confirmed to be 35-year-old Elisha Dalah, a member of the high-society family, who was caught shoplifting at the Westfield shopping centre in 2022.
Former Deal Or No Deal host O’Keefe, 52, was seen chatting to Dalah as he picked her up in the upmarket suburb of Point Piper.
The sighting came days after he failed to convince a court that a woman lied about being assaulted by him and his domestic violence assault convictions were upheld.
Dalah, 36, is the older sister of Fishbowl restaurateur Nathan Dalah and sister-in-law of Victoria’s Secret model Georgia Fowler, while she is also the daughter of former Elizabeth Bay Marina co-owner Michael Dalah and his wife Michelle.
Dalah is believed to be living at her parents’ home. Palatial oceanfront mansion in the exclusive Point Piper neighborhood.
While the nature of their relationship is unknown, the pair were seen engaging in friendly conversation as they climbed into the passenger seat alongside O’Keefe.
O’Keefe had an unlit cigarette in his mouth and looked somber as he stared into the distance while waiting for Dalah to arrive.
Disgraced TV star Andrew O’Keefe was spotted picking up a woman in his car in Sydney on Wednesday – and now his identity has been revealed.
In a surprise twist, the woman has been confirmed to be Elisha Dalah, 35, a member of the socialite family, who was caught shoplifting at the Westfield shopping centre in 2022. Former Deal Or No Deal presenter O’Keefe, 52, was seen chatting to Dalah as he picked her up in the upmarket suburb of Point Piper on Wednesday.
Dalah was wearing a striped T-shirt and carrying a takeout coffee when he arrived and chatted with O’Keefe as he got into the vehicle.
In May last year, Dalah narrowly avoided jail after being caught stealing luxury face creams and designer clothes from a Westfield shopping centre.
At the time, Waverley Local Court heard the mother-of-one used a ‘tagger’ to steal a $249 Tommy Hilfiger jumper and a $170 ‘Youth Lift’ face cream from Sephora at Westfield Bondi Junction on July 14, 2022.
Plainclothes police officers watched her leave Tommy Hilfiger and steal the cream before arresting her and charging her with shoplifting and violating the mall’s ban.
Dalah had recently served a probation sentence for other shoplifting offenses when she was arrested.
“I’m sorry, I have a problem, can I pay for the items now? I don’t know why I steal, I don’t need to steal, I work, I just can’t help it,” he told police, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The court heard the woman had been sober for eight months, had attended rehab twice, was still receiving substance abuse counselling and had not reoffended since being charged.
In May last year, Dalah (pictured) narrowly avoided jail after being caught stealing luxury face creams and designer clothes from a Westfield shopping centre.
Dalah is the daughter of former Elizabeth Bay Marina owner Michael Dalah and his wife Michelle, and is believed to be living in her parents’ Point Piper mansion (pictured with her son).
He started using drugs at 14 and injected heroin after learning of his ex-partner’s cancer diagnosis before the robberies.
Judge Milledge said in a brutally frank judgment: ‘Everything I’ve read suggests that you see yourself as a victim; you are not a victim.
‘You’ve said, “I’m a kleptomaniac, I act on impulse,” you’re calculating, manipulative, and deceitful, and your family knows it because they’ve been dealing with that side of you for years and years and years.’
Dalah was sentenced to a 20-month intensive correction order and 200 hours of community service, and ordered to pay a $500 fine. Entering Westfield Bondi Junction while prohibited.
Dalah was last known to be working as a barista at family business Laissez-Faire Catering in Alexandria, Sydney.
O’Keefe’s sighting with Dalah also came just days after a court upheld their domestic violence assault convictions on Monday.
District Court Judge John Pickering rejected her lawyers’ arguments that the woman had scratched her own arm and then placed blame on O’Keefe.
However, the judge dismissed other drug possession charges after finding that items found in a safe in O’Keefe’s apartment could not be proven to belong to him.
Dalah, 36, is the older sister of Fishbowl restaurateur Nathan Dalah (right) and sister-in-law of Victoria’s Secret model Georgia Fowler (left).
The troubled former TV star was found guilty in January of three counts of domestic violence-related assault, twice violating a restraining order against her and two counts of possession of a prohibited drug.
He was ordered to serve 18 months in community confinement, which involves supervision and reporting requirements, and was fined $800 for the drug offenses.
During an assault in September 2021, O’Keefe was found to have pushed the woman into a door, hit her with the heel of his hand and forced her to the ground, before kicking her in the thigh and using his nails to scratch her chest.
But O’Keefe’s barrister Phillip Boulten SC said the woman’s claim that she scraped her hand on a hinge after being pushed through the door was not supported by physical evidence.
Boulten said if it was determined the woman was not truthful about the scratch marks on her arm, all of her evidence should not be accepted.
Judge Pickering told the court he saw no reason for the woman to lie about the assault and noted that at the time she had indicated she did not want to make a complaint to the police.
“In her communication with the police it was clear that she really did not want the police to get involved in this,” he said.
“I do not see what benefit the whistleblower could have gained. I am satisfied that the whistleblower was a truthful witness to this incident.”
The sighting came days after O’Keefe (pictured) failed to convince a court that a woman lied about being assaulted by him and his domestic violence assault convictions were upheld.
As the sentence was read in court, O’Keefe shook his head in frustrated disagreement and passed written notes to his lawyer.
O’Keefe admitted the argument occurred, but maintains he accidentally fell on top of the woman due to his proximity rather than pushing her.
The woman said that after she fell, O’Keefe told her: “Good performance, I barely touched you.”
Judge Pickering found that in initially sentencing O’Keefe, the court could use an earlier incident in January 2021, in which O’Keefe admitted spitting in the same woman’s eye, to help establish who was telling the truth.
“Most men in our community don’t act this way,” he said.
O’Keefe previously presented Weekend Sunrise, the Today show and several game shows including The Chase until his contract with the Seven Network expired at the end of 2020, when he was replaced by Larry Emdur.
