Travers ‘The Candyman’ Beynon goes dark on social media ahead of birth of fifth child
The Gold Coast’s answer to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner appears to be pulling back from his hedonistic ways as he prepares to welcome his fifth child.
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Flamboyant Gold Coast tobacco tycoon Travers “The Candyman” Beynon has shed his playboy persona and gone dark on social media as he prepares to welcome a new baby.
Beynon, who turned 52 this week, is famed for his decadent lifestyle including wild parties and live-in girlfriends at his lavish “Candy Shop Mansion” at Helensvale on the northern Glitter Strip.
But the Gold Coast’s answer to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner appears to be pulling back from his hedonistic ways as he prepares to welcome his fifth child – his third with second wife Taesha.
The baby boy is believed to be due in June.
The Beynons have put their 14-bedroom waterfront mansion up for sale and Beynon, a prolific social media user, has not posted to his Instagram account – which has 1 million followers – in almost six months.
His @candyshopmansion account has also disappeared.
Beynon, who heads the Free Choice Tobacco chain empire, stopped his infamous annual Christmas parties at the Candy Shop mansion and took a prolonged break from social media in 2022.
He returned to Instagram with a barrage of posts after The Courier-Mail ran a story questioning if all was sweet in the world of the Candyman, and followed up with a raucous Australia Day party at the mansion last year.
It coincided with Taesha Beynon, 33, posting on Insta that she and her husband were “looking for new girlfriends”.
Travers and Taesha have two daughters, Velicia, 12, and Serafina, 11, while he has two children from a previous marriage to Venezuelan beauty queen Ninibeth Leal – Valentina, 24, and Luciana, 21.
In a 2018 interview, Mr Beynon said his wife had text him to say: “I really want a baby boy with you … like now.”
“When I was a teenager I wanted 10 children but six will do now, I would be happy with two more boys,” he told UK news outlet The Mirror.
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