Real life drama behind the scenes of Aquamamma
Bates, 42, is often seen driving a $300,000 Mercedes-Benz SUV around the millionaire enclave of Wategos Beach. A regular on the Sydney and Byron Bay social scene for years, he is a Sydney publicity expert Roxy Jacenko the school’s official date was decades ago. Described by a former friend as a proponent of a carefully cultivated high-flying svengali aura, Bates is notorious for lavishing his girlfriends with expensive gifts, collecting expensive lunch bills at his neighborhood watering hole, the majestic Rae’s on Wategos Beach, where he is known to order some bottle of Krug champagne and a giant tub of caviar. Potential investors, some of whom gave up hundreds of thousands of dollars, were hooked. Watego Beach in Byron Bay. Credit: Peter Braig PS saw them among wealthy guests dressed in all white at Paspaley’s exclusive 2019 jewelery party at the luxurious Qualia resort on Hamilton Island, where they sipped vintage champagne and stroked a multi-million dollar pearl necklace, adorned