Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi’s plans to evict her mother from the family home before Christmas following a bitter court battle have collapsed.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Amorosi’s mother, Joyleen Robinson, 69, will continue to live in her dream home in Narre Warren, in Melbourne’s south-east, with her family until her daughter pays almost $870,000 in restitution.
In September, Judge Steven Moore imposed two deadlines for the women, ordering Ms. Robinson to move out within 60 days and Ms. Amorosi to pay restitution by the end of March next year.
But with just days left before the 60-day deadline expires, Amorosi’s family told Daily Mail Australia they had no intention of moving.
Amorosi’s stepbrother Anthony Robinson told Daily Mail Australia the 60-day deadline was only triggered once his sister paid their mother.
“The order is for Vanessa to return the money we gave her with 10 percent simple interest,” he said.
“It’s gone up every day since the start of the court case, so it will be a million dollars in March.”
Robinson claimed that his sister needed to refinance a personal loan, in which the family home was listed as collateral, in order to have full control of it.
Vanessa Amorosi’s house on Thursday. His mother and family have no plans to move anytime soon.
“Only once you’ve refinanced the loan does the 60 days start, but you have to get a loan without any assets in your name,” Mr Robinson said.
Once the debt is paid, Robinson said it will pave the way for his sister to take control of the company that also owns her property in the United States.
The Robinson family claims Amorosi has fallen on hard times amid speculation she has split from her American husband.
Amorosi married martial arts trainer Rod Busby in October 2017 and they have a son together, Killian..
Daily Mail Australia asked Amorosi’s spokesperson a series of questions but received no response.
“The crazy truth is that if Vanessa had come with Mom instead of doing all this, Mom would have been happy to have sold the place. We wouldn’t have anywhere to go, though. Once we lose this place, we’ll have nowhere to go,” the man said. Mr. Robinson.
‘Mom isn’t too worried about losing the house. It’s losing your daughter. Losing your grandson. She is really determined to meet her grandson.
Robinson claims he only learned of the child’s birth through a news report in 2016.
A pile of trash has appeared outside Robinson’s home since September, when the court issued a 60-day deadline.
Vanessa Amorosi has been described as a “pyrrhic victory”
In September, the Supreme Court of Victoria heard that Amorosi not only couldn’t afford to pay the money, he couldn’t even get a loan to pay the amount.
‘Ms. Amorosi’s attorney has stated, upon Ms. Amorosi’s instructions, that he does not believe that he will be able to obtain a loan to finance the payment of the amount of $650,000 plus interest and that he instead wishes to sell the Boundary property Road to make the funds necessary to pay Ms. Robinson,” Judge Steven Moore said at the time.
“Otherwise, you do not have the resources to make the payment without the sale of the Boundary Road property.”
The singer achieved major success in 1999 with the release of her debut single ‘Have a Look’, which achieved gold status in Australia.
The following year, he achieved international success with his debut studio album, The Power.
Amorosi performed at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
His performance of ‘Heroes Live Forever’ at the opening ceremony garnered international recognition.
But it was their song ‘Absolutely Everybody’ that became an unofficial anthem of the games and became a huge hit in Australia and many European countries, including Britain and Germany.
The combined sales of their albums and singles have exceeded two million worldwide.
Vanessa Amorosi has been at war with her mother over the family home
A shack on the Amorosi property in Narre Warren North remains littered with abandoned vehicles
Robinson said there is now more dispute over what the value of the Boundary Road property really is.
‘Vanessa is under the impression that the house is worth between $2.5 and $3 million for the entire property and (land), but I can tell you a place right down the street on 20 acres, flatter land than this, a huge shed, a huge house that was “Totally finished, it only sold for about 2 million dollars,” he said.
On Thursday, Amorosi’s home showed signs of a well-inhabited property.
A shack at the bottom of the sprawling property remained littered with abandoned cars, while smashed air-conditioning units rotted outside a cluttered shed.
Robinson said the house needed “a lot of work.”
“She had real estate agents come in and so did we, and they can’t come to an agreement on what the house is really worth,” he said.
Robinson described Amorosi’s court victory as a “Pyrrhic victory.”
“It basically means you win, but at that cost it would have been better not to win anything…she’s going to lose at the end of this,” he said.
Located on a green hill on Boundary Road, The court battle had centered on a claim that Amorosi had gifted the house to his mother during a kitchen chat sometime in 2001.
Amorosi claimed “victory” after a long public trial in which both she and her mother were forced to testify before a media circus.
Joyleen Robinson arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court surrounded by her family in October last year.
Vanessa Amorosi in October of last year during the trial.
Robinson said a battle over who pays what court costs was still scheduled in the Supreme Court.
“It looks like everyone is going to bear their own costs,” Mr. Robinson said.
As the saga continues, Robinson said her sister’s abandoned possessions still in the house from when she was a teenager were rotting.
‘Vanessa was really determined to get her things back. He has some things in the barn… A lot of them have been eaten by rats. My things too. ‘I’m not happy with that,’ he said.
With mystery surrounding when and how the matter will finally be resolved, the Robinson clan continues as usual for now, but with a dark cloud looming in the not-too-distant future.
‘Mom is 69 and dad is 65 and now they have to start over. They have had to spend a lot of money,” said Mr Robinson.
“The only reason we’ve been able to fight for so long is because my grandmother on my mother’s side passed away and my grandmother on my father’s side passed away and they had the inheritance.”
Robinson said he remained convinced that his sister believed they were still hiding money and assets from him.
‘It’s crazy. “It’s absolutely crazy,” he said.
The toll of the ordeal continues to take its toll on his mother’s health, Robinson said.
“It’s hard to sit there and let your mother suffer,” he said.