Tziporah’s shock Kerry Packer claim
Ex model Tziporah Malkah (formerly Kate Fischer) has opened up about the “simmering sexual tension” she had with billionaire Kerry Packer while she was engaged to his son James.
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Tziporah Malkah has opened up about the “simmering sexual tension” she shared with billionaire Kerry Packer and the debilitating sexual assaults she suffered as a teen in a tell-all interview in The Australian.
The “unpredictable” 46-year-old spoke with News Corp journalist Steve Jackson in her Kings Cross apartment on Christmas Eve and discussed her bouts of erratic behaviour, two AVO charges and progressively disturbing social media posts — many of which feature interactions with police and paramedics.
People say, ‘Don’t post any more on Instagram’. Argh! You tell me not to do it, I do it more.
“They tell me it makes it look like I have mental health issues … I have always been like this, but now people can see it on Instagram. It is a calculated move — I have gotten that many views on those videos I should be making thousands of dollars a week,” she says.
“My Mum is probably the reason (the police keep coming to check on me) … but I have no mental health issues. I mean, I’m a Jew, isn’t that crazy enough?”
Malkah’s life has taken many twists and turns since she won Dolly magazine’s Covergirl of the Year competition in 1987 at the age of 13. Throughout the ‘90s (when she went by her birth name, Kate Fischer), she was one of the country’s most in demand models.
Her profile was raised when she became engaged to billionaire James Packer.
When the engagement was called off in 1998 she largely disappeared from public view for more than a decade.
She blames the “intense, and mutual, sexual tension” she shared with Kerry Packer for ultimately destroying her relationship with his son.
“Kerry was so jealous I was with James,” she says. “Kerry wanted me and I wanted him too. He was 6’1” and his hands were massive, of course, and he had these penetrating eyes.
“He was amazing and I loved him. We engaged each other intellectually and flirted a lot.
“Kerry and I never touched each other. Not really. We would only hug — but the chemistry was intense.
“In the end, I proved too challenging even for Kerry. He told James, ‘Son, you don’t need to go home to that every night.’”
Malkah says she still thinks about her ex fiance James often.
“For a while, I thought our relationship was something different than what it was,” she laments. “We didn’t really love each other romantically. We loved each other because I was unusual. All the other girls he’d dated were pretty dumb girls. I was the opposite of that.
“In the end, I said, ‘I’m not marrying a credit card.’
“I got our house and I came back for a second bite of the pie eight years later and I got another $2m out of him. That’s all gone now, of course. I could have got more. The career I could have had, I could have been Cameron Diaz, but he threw a long shadow. I still care about him a lot and worry about his health. He doesn’t look in a good way. People should never feel sorry for me; they should feel sorry for James. He needs everyone’s prayers. He’s poorer than I am and I am a week behind in my rent.”
Back in the spotlight
In 2016 she was photographed by paparazzi checking her mailbox in Melbourne while working as an aged-care nurse, draped in a bedsheet and almost unrecognisable at about 120kg.
The pictures propelled her back into the spotlight and on to Ten’s reality show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
She has since lost 50kg, a feat she credits largely to surgery and hypnotherapy, and picked up two AVOs against her — one taken out by a former lover, another by a former housemate.
In the Australian interview, Malkah also names dozens of celebrities she has slept with.
“It’s a strange thing for me, sex,” she says. “Because from an early age I was abused.
“For years I wished I was normal. Every girl wanted to be me but I wanted to be every girl.
“The modelling and everything else was fine. But every man I met wanted me to be their claim to fame. I’ve f..ked over 100 of them but they all wanted to have sex with Kate Fischer, not with me; they want to have sex with an icon. It’s disgusting. But it’s the fact that I let men rape me and enjoyed it, that’s what has hurt my soul the most. I was a powerless little girl and I hated myself. I was ashamed. I used to slap myself: ‘You stupid f..king idiot, how could you be so revolting.’ ”
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In the interview, Malkah lists the occasions she was raped, in vivid detail. She says she was also sexually assaulted at the hands of a well-known movie executive who remains powerful in Hollywood to this day, when she was just 16.
She says she was first raped as a pre-pubescent child by someone close to her, and by yet another man she had trusted as recently as two months ago.
Drugs and alcohol
She says she spent decades starving herself to maintain her model physique. “At the same time your diet is made up of cocaine and chocolate laxatives and speed because you know you have to be a certain weight,” she says.
“Thank god ice wasn’t around in the ‘90s or I’d be dead.”
Even now, among the used wine glasses on her coffee table, there is a smattering of Dextroamphetamine tablets and a bottle of amyl nitrite, and Malkah freely admits drugs remain very much a part of her daily life.
“I need to self-medicate to deal with the anxiety,” she says, shrugging. “I drink alcohol, which I shouldn’t, and I love a cone and amyl — but it goes off quickly if you leave the lid open. I love GHB but nobody will give it to me.”
While she remains conscious of her weight, she says she is more comfortable in her skin now, at 46, than at the peak of her modelling career.
* Read the full interview on The Australian
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