David Beckham’s affair with Australian model Sarah Marbeck resurfaces after documentary

David Beckham’s rendezvous with Aussie model Sarah Marbeck dominated global headlines almost 20 years ago— so where is she now?

Model Sarah Marbeck claimed she had an affair with soccer player David Beckham.

It was always going to be the elephant in the room for David Beckham doing a tell-all documentary.

While his rise to stardom on the soccer pitch was interesting, let’s not pretend most people really tuned in for the final episode which delved into ‘Golden Balls’ — as his wife Victoria calls him — and his extra curricular activity outside the marriage.

It’s almost two decades since what was described as the biggest scoop of the century when Beckham’s infidelity emerged five years into his marriage with Posh Spice.

Soccer player David Beckham with model Sarah Marbeck.

For the first time the Spice Girls singer and the soccer icon dubbed Posh and Becks have broken their silence on how they survived the “horrible” cheating rumours, with Victoria Beckham telling the Netflix doco, 2004 was the most “unhappy I have ever been in my life.”

The first fling to emerge was with his former personal assistant Rebecca Loos while in Spain and this is what the documentary focuses on, referring to how his move to play with Real Madrid, while his family remained in England, and the loneliness he found was behind his wandering ways.

Sarah Marbeck claims she had an affair with David Beckham.

This is backed up by Posh but what is conveniently left out of the documentary is that a week after Loos went public, a second woman, Australian Malaysian model Sarah Marbeck, came out as also having had an affair with Beckham.

And it started three years earlier.

The Marbeck revelation turned Melbourne into the hotspot of the scandal with now colourful local celebrity lawyer Michael Brereton, who represented Kylie Minogue for more than 18 years, looking after Marbeck’s interests when the story broke.

Scorned and vilified, Marbeck was quickly put into protection as the global media bayed for any details about the affair.

“We were hiding her,” Brereton told Page 13 this week.

“There were Melbourne radio stations that had prize money for finding where she or I was.

Sarah Marbeck made front page news in 2004.

Lawyer Michael Brereton. Picture: Julian Smith.

“We were hiding her up in Port Douglas five kilometres off the main road in the jungle.”

Marbeck had met Beckham in Singapore when he was on tour with Manchester United. They slept together in a hotel room and then continued a relationship for two years.

Brereton said the English tabloids who paid Marbeck a substantial amount — “think a lot of zeros and add some more” — sent two journalists out to Australia to check all the facts about her claims.

“We were seeing a Queen’s Counsel – we did it really carefully and were well prepared – the QC said, “Sarah, is there anything in particular you can recall about Mr Beckham that only you would know,” Brereton said.

“A smirk came across her face and she said – genetically gifted.

“I said why are you doing it? She said I love him, I said well you can guarantee after this you will never see him again.

David & Victoria Beckham.

Malaysian-born model Sarah Marbeck claims she was bedded by soccer star David Beckham, seen on the pages of News of the World in 2004.

“She was a young girl, she certainly had more than her 15 minutes of fame. I think she genuinely fell for the bloke.”

Interestingly, when the story broke, Brereton and Marbeck didn’t hear anything from the Beckhams.

“There were multiple recordings, text messages, the story was incredibly well researched and thorough,” Brereton said.

“We didn’t get one legal letter or one telephone call about it.”

So what happened to Marbeck?

“She got a lot of money and her life changed,” Brereton said. “I heard she became religious. I hope she is well.”