Will the Wrecker in court over lost earnings claims from former Meter Maids GM Michael Yarwood

YOUNG women performed regular sexual acts for Coast icon Will the Wrecker to help manage the 81-year-old’s mood swings, according to sensational claims tendered to court.

YOUNG women performed regular sexual acts for Will the Wrecker to help manage the 81-year-old’s mood swings, according to sensational claims tendered to court.

Former Surfers Paradise Meter Maids general manager Michael Yarwood has made the explosive sex claims in a 54-page affidavit in the Supreme Court. He alleges he is owed $1.9 million in lost earnings when acting as a business adviser to the Gold Coast millionaire and junkyard recluse.

Will the Wrecker, from the Gold Coast, aka Will Smith, at his yard at West Burleigh which he has cleared out

In June, Mr Yarwood lodged a claim and Mr Smith has responded with a notice to defend and then a counter claim in a case which will be heard next week.

Mr Yarwood alleges he hired women to balance Will Smith’s mood swings after he “groped” a meter maid at a Gold Coast Wreckers Christmas luncheon at Burleigh last year and “fondled her by attempting to place his fingers inside her bikini bottoms”.

The meter maid said she could find someone who could tolerate Mr Smith’s behaviour and 20-year-old Sarah Jane Bailey later signed what Mr Yarwood called “a sexual services contract”, the affidavit alleges.

Joseph "Will the Wrecker" Smith with some Meter Maids. Photo: Supplied

In response, Mr Smith has accused Mr Yarwood of swindling almost $4 million after being granted power of attorney, using the money for luxury cars and travel and a “sugar baby” mistress.

Ms Bailey said she had her contract terminated after Mr Yarwood’s wife discovered text messages between the pair.

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Mr Smith employed Mr Yarwood in late 2013 to help with the sale of his Reedy Creek wrecking yard. The State Government wanted to buy it to create a corridor for heavy rail to Coolangatta.

"Will the Wrecker" when he turned 80. Photo: Supplied

“Smith has an overly active sexual appetite and demand for sexual gratification,” Mr Yarwood claims in his affidavit.

He claims that he soon understood that “if a pretty female was in Smith’s presence, Smith was easier to manage in regards to his violent and sudden mood swings”.

Previous women said they “regularly fondled and touched Mr Smith and on occasions performed sexual acts”, the affidavit alleges.

Mr Yarwood said his actions in hiring women for Mr Smith were socially unacceptable and against his upbringing.

Michael Yarwood.

“At the time, however, I saw these actions as a means to an end. Today, in hindsight and on introspective reflection I find my actions to be repugnant and am ashamed I acted in this direction.”

Mr Yarwood alleges Mr Smith lived with a businesswoman at a Merrimac home mortgaged to Queensland Housing Commission where he paid $10 a week.

Mr Smith called him once to advise the woman – a “petite Asian lady” – was “throwing heavy items such as cooking pots at him” and that he visited to find the wrecker’s property tossed out on the street, it is alleged.

Mr Yarwood describes Mr Smith as an astute and extremely successful businessman who did not tolerate fools, could be ruthless in his dealings and negotiates hard.

Michael Yarwood and Joseph "Will the Wrecker" Smith are locked in a multimillion-dollar legal battle. Photo: Supplied

Mr Yarwood said he met Mr Smith in the 1980s through his family’s connections with the running group Hash House Harriers and reconnected in 2013 as his property was to be resumed for the heavy rail corridor.

The Department of Main Roads and Transport advised that it would only deal with Mr Yarwood if he was given power of attorney, the affidavit said.

Mr Yarwood alleges he proposed 22 per cent of gross revenue activities, but Mr Smith’s first offer of 6.5 per cent was reflected in the retailer agreement.

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He estimated he could increase the property and business portfolio to $20 million in the first three to four years and they later agreed to 15 per cent for a 200-hours-per-month job managing Mr Smith’s affairs.

Mr Yarwood has threatened separate defamation action against barrister and corporate investigator Christopher Garlick, who has been acting for Mr Smith.

He has alleged emails to him contained defamatory remarks, including that he had taken money from Mr Smith’s account when he held power of attorney and paid for his own traffic fines and credit card expenses.

Mr Yarwood maintains these are the wrecker’s own fines and debts.

Mr Yarwood alleges Mr Garlick charged Mr Smith $400,000 over an eight-week period, but when contacted yesterday the Coast barrister said “it’s not true”.

Mr Smith has declined to comment because the matter was before the courts. He is shocked by the claims in the affidavit and his lawyers are considering their next steps in relation to the “disgraceful comments”.

Mr Yarwood told the Bulletin: “I love Will. I consider him family. He’s one tough old bugger.”

WILL THE WRECKER TIMELINE:

● Will Smith is an apprentice mechanic at 13 in Victoria, moves to the Gold Coast and operates a service station at Miami for a decade until 1970.

● Buys plot off the Pacific Motorway at Reedy Creek and, at its peak employs 10 people, becomes the largest on the east coast of Australia.

● Mr Smith buys the pink FX Holden from Olivia’s Malt Shop in Surfers Paradise and from the 1980s it is viewed by Pacific Motorway motorists seeing it poking out on the verandah of his wrecking yard home.

● Michael Yarwood, through his family’s connections, meets Mr Smith at the running group Hash House Harriers. In 2013 they reconnect when Mr Smith contacts Mr Yarwood’s mother after reading a Bulletin report about her son’s “exploits regarding jail” after he pleaded guilty to a dishonesty charge.

● Later that year with Mr Smith paying up to $300,000 in land tax and rates and facing a decade-long battle with the State Government wanting to buy his land to secure a rail corridor, Mr Yarwood offers business advice.

● In December 2015, a confidential multimillion-dollar deal is secured to settle four of five blocks on the 5ha site.

● Mr Smith keeps the iconic house with the pink FX Holden peeking through the first floor but in the next nine months is required to move 5000 car bodies from the site. The settlement is $9 million.

● In May, Mr Yarwood’s contract is terminated. A month later he takes civil action saying the value of his contract was up to $1.9 million.

● Mr Smith counter claims he has been swindled almost $4 million since appointing Mr Yarwood power of attorney. The case will be heard in Brisbane on Tuesday.