Where’s the Candyman? Businessman Travers Beynon MIA

Gold Coast businessman Travers “The Candyman” Beynon has gone quiet on social media and his infamous Christmas parties at his opulent “Candy Shop Mansion” are no more. So where is he?

Is everything sweet with the Candyman?

Colourful Gold Coast businessman Travers “The Candyman” Beynon appears to have gone quiet on social media and his infamous Christmas parties at his opulent “Candy Shop Mansion” are no more.

Travers Beynon, aka The Candyman, has been rather quiet of late. Picture: Glenn Hampson

The Free Choice tobacco tycoon had unashamedly spruiked himself as Australia’s answer to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

Regular Instagram posts showed him lapping up the luxury of his riverfront mansion at Helensvale, surrounded by his wife and a bevy of bikini-clad live-in “girlfriends”.

His annual Christmas soirées were the stuff of Glitter Strip social scene legend, with hundreds of scantily-clad guests cavorting throughout the lavish seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 21-car garage Candy Shop Mansion and its grounds which include a 250,000-litre infinity pool complete with swim-up bar, grotto and 27-tonne statue.

The wild parties attracted police attention and in 2018, Mr Beynon was slapped

with a $13,000 fine from Gold Coast City Council after complaints about a 3m statue

of a topless Virgin Mary.

Mr Beynon later accused the council of waging “an ongoing campaign of harassment” and said officers had tried to infiltrate the party “like CIA operatives”

In 2019, he launched District Court action against four neighbours he accused of trying to stop him from throwing his decadent parties. The claim was settled out of court.

But he hasn’t held a party since, not even this year in the first restriction-free Christmas after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Some of the Candyman’s ‘girlfriends’ prepare for the annual Christmas party in 2015.

The last Instagram posts on his @candyshopmansion and @traversbeynonofficial accounts were way back in August, both showing a shirtless bronzed and buff Beynon poolside at the mansion.

The mansion account’s “followers” and “following” sections appear to have been hidden.

The @candyshopmansiongardens account, dedicated to showing off the mansion’s stunning grounds, had its last post in September.

The Candyman is well-known for hosting lavish parties.

Beynon’s model daughter, Lucciana, has been much more active on Insta, posting regularly as late as last month. Beynon’s son, Valentino, hasn’t posted since May though.

The Courier-Mail tried to reach out to Mr Beynon through his Free Choice Australia head office on the Gold Coast this week but there was no response.

Originally published as Where’s the Candyman? Businessman Travers Beynon MIA