Brightnye Christina Marie Quayle: OnlyFans and TikTok star fined after drink driving crash
An OnlyFans creator and high-rating TikTokker - infamous for posting about her former relationship with a man 35 years older - is now doing her PhD, a court heard during her drink-drive case. Read what the magistrate had to say here.
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A Kiwi OnlyFans creator and half of a popular so-called age-gap TikTok account has been praised for doing her PhD during sentencing for a drink-drive car crash.
Brightnye Christina Marie Quayle pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday to driving over the general but not middle alcohol limit.
The court heard police were called to a single vehicle traffic crash near the Conebrush Street and Pinkwood Drive intersection, Ashmore, at 10.30pm on January 17.
On arrival, officers noticed a white Holden car had crashed onto the footpath, damaging the car side.
Quayle, the driver, agreed to a roadside breath test but was later detained and taken to Broadbeach Police Station.
When questioned, Quayle told police she had two or three glasses of white wine at HOTA rooftop Exhibitionist Bar earlier that night.
After submitting to a second test, Quayle returned a Blood Alcohol Concentration of 0.082.
Quayle, who self-represented, told the court she was studying full-time.
“I just finished my first year in my PhD in zoology,” she said.
Acting Magistrate Sarah Thompson took into account Quayle’s early plea of guilty, and letter of apology.
“It appears you are making some real attempts at changing your life and putting positive features in place,” she said. “It would seem you made the poor decision of drink counting and as you well know now it is an imperfect science.”
She was fined $400 and disqualified from applying for a driver’s licence for one month.
No conviction was recorded.
Before Quayle left the court, Ms Thompson had some sage advice: “Please don’t drive.”
Quayle and now ex-partner Dr James Anthony Ellingford amassed thousands of followers and millions of views on a TikTok account posting videos on their 35-year age gap relationship.
Dr Ellingford, ex-director of Cresco Pharmacy, has since been before the courts in recent years after pleading guilty to using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence in July 2023.
He was sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond with no conviction recorded.
Dr Ellingford recently won $214,000 after suing directors of White Noise Entertainment Pty Ltd, alleging they misled him when he invested $186,503 in the company in mid 2022.
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