John Singleton’s new love was queen of condoms
Has six times married and divorced John Singleton found his perfect match in new girlfriend Sarah Warry, a former condom vendor?
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Six times married and divorced John Singleton has conducted one of Australia’s most exhaustive searches for his perfect match.
Now could it be that at 81 the indefatigable ladies’ man has found her in new girlfriend Sarah Warry, a former condom vendor?
While the octogenarian multi-millionaire and his 40-something partner continue to turn heads on the beaches of Terrigal with their public PDAs, sources close to Warry last week educated this columnist on the divorced mother-of-two’s background, selling his and hers flavoured condoms to Balinese tourists.
Back then, Warry went by another name. She then was known as Sarah Bagus, wife of Muslim Indonesian businessman Endyk Bagus.
Warry’s LinkedIn CV is short on detail concerning roles that preceded her 2018 placement in the sales department of Gosford community radio station CoastFM – an appointment that preceded to a promotion to station manager in June 2022, something that apparently threw her into the path of one-time Macquarie radio owner Singo.
In her one pre-2018 listed career, from 2001 to 2017, cites LinkedIn, Warry was the “owner” of PT International Import Export.
No further detail is provided on the nature of that business – and sadly our sources were unable to clarify what goods or services the business transported.
Warry and her former husband in 2007 recounted having met in Sydney years earlier while he was working in the city as a chef.
In an article saucily entitled “First Come First Served” the author fails to record what Warry was doing at that time.
The couple married within “three or four months”, Endyk reveals, because they wanted to move to his native Indonesia and start a business.
In a second interview with Indonesian title The Yak in December 2007, the couple say they work seven days a week managing three businesses – a “Black Market hobby store” in Jakarta, a wholesale business and their condom emporium The Guard in Kuta.
To market The Guard and its culturally taboo inventory, the Baguses seemed at pains to debunk the opinion they were running a sex shop, instead positioning themselves as offering a service to women at risk of catching STIs and being coerced into having unprotected sex.
The couple’s marriage ended about 2017 following the arrival of two children, both of whom are now primary schoolers.
After relocating to Australia, Warry took up with Malcolm Borland of Central Coast-based Borland Constructions, with whom she was living in February when the relationship ended around St Valentine’s Day.
By then Warry was in talks with Singleton to procure his financial backing for CoastFM.
While a shared love of radio may have first ignited the couple’s relationship, friends claim it is Warry’s entrepreneurial drive and love for the Central Coast that have bonded the pair.
Warry is understood to own two or three properties in the area, thanks to her lucrative divorce settlement from Bagus, which may have spurred a keen joint interest in Singleton’s own search for a mansion in the area following the sale of his Mt White home earlier this year.
Meanwhile, property insiders say the couple appear to have lost interest in an eight-bedroom Bandalong Road property – with $3.5m expectations – they inspected in Holgate last month, and which Singo’s mates believe was intended as a gift for Warry.
OZ ROYALTY TO WED
Heidi Luedecke, the daughter of St Vincent's Hospital charity fundraiser Jane Ferguson and niece of the Duchess of York, has announced her engagement.
The open-faced beauty last week confirmed she plans to marry British art consultant Ben Collinson.
The 27-year-old was yesterday showing off her incredible oval-shaped sparkler.
Having grown up in the shadow locally of older sister Ayesha, a one-time Sydney model, Heidi has thrived since moving to the UK in 2019.
She moved there to pursue her love of art history.
Ferguson’s youngest daughter and only child with second husband Rainier Luedecke, graduated from ANU with a degree in Commerce/Art History in 2019 before moving to the UK and taking a role at exhibition and art space Cromwell Place.
A full-time move to the famous Tate Gallery as a development manager within the Trusts & Foundations division followed in October 2022.
A wedding date, we hear, is yet to be set but is likely to be attended by her aunt Sarah and cousins, the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and their new husbands, property developer English-born Italian noble Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and wine merchant Jack Brooksbank.
IT’S COMPLICATED
A month after going Instagram official on her relationship with Bahamas-based funds manager Mark Holowesko, Ellie Aitken has scrubbed Holowesko from her accounts as she keeps Sydney’s money market guessing about her current relationship status.
After being outed as a couple in March following an unmissable date at luxury hotel Capella, owned by Singapore’s billionaire Kwee brothers, the pair either look to have taken their relationship offline or separated after a whirlwind globetrotting romance.
Could it have anything to do with her estranged husband, Charlie Aitken, with whom we hear she is currently sharing a Vaucluse rental?
Might that be a little too close for comfort for Holowesko who must be wondering when the couple is going to get around to divorcing, if indeed there is a commitment to doing so?
While the buoyant Ellie continues to maintain a suitably glossy profile while promoting her Poitrel Advisors and association with Thai luxury resorts company Soneva, Charlie has been keeping his head down since deciding to finish up with former employer Bell Potter after a 12-month tenure.
The one-time big wheeler dealer is, it is understood, headed to hedge fund Regal Partners as a marketing executive.
WILL THE REAL MIA STAND UP?
In a media industry that is notoriously tough on women, there are plenty already sharpening their knives ahead of the December premier of Foxtel’s new drama, Strife.
The program, based on the life of digital publisher Mia Freedman, has been described by producers as a work of fiction.
That’s a notion that is striking some of her former colleagues as a painful irony.
Former staffers point out Mamamia has been a veritable revolving door of staffers since the business was launched 16 years ago.
Freedman has devolved too from self eulogiser to relatable scruffy unkempt everywoman, someone infinitely more marketable to her target consumer audience than was the privileged eastern suburbs princess Freedman had been in her twenties. More irony.
Which version of former/imagined/invented Freedman will be on screen remains to be seen, but for many it promises to be galling.
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