Ex-girlfriend of Ultra Tune boss Sean Buckley ‘attacked in her home’

Explosive court documents reveal the ex-girlfriend of Ultra Tune magnate Sean Buckley is suffering trauma after she was attacked in her home.

Jennifer Cruz Cole who was in a relationship with Ultratune boss Sean Buckley.

The ex-girlfriend of Ultra Tune magnate Sean Buckley was attacked in her home by an assailant who has since been charged.

Details of an attack on bikini model Jennifer Cole in mid-2020 – before the high profile pair split – have been revealed in Supreme Court documents as she battles the millionaire over secret tapes he wants destroyed.

Ms Cole continues to suffer “an ongoing adverse psychological response to the attack”, after which an offender was charged by police.

The attack was disclosed in a civil court judgment handed down last week, after Ms Cole pleaded guilty to breaching an injunction that banned her from sharing some 100 secretly recorded tapes of conversations with Mr Buckley.

But she admitted to having twice sent a tape via a late night group text message in March to Hisham Hanna and three others and Rodney Cedaro and five others, documents show.

Jennifer Cole and Sean Buckley

The audio recording was made in early 2020 at Crown Metropol, and featured conversations between Ms Cole, Mr Buckley and a third person that Mr Buckley was speaking with on the phone.

Ms Cole told the court that despite a February injunction, she sent two text messages within an hour of each other in March to the recipients, which included journalists, believing they “already had a copy of the recording”.

The decision to send the texts came after she spoke with her young daughter, who she shares with the car repairs boss, and “became upset about the way Mr Buckley treated her in their relationship”.

“She said she sent the message because she was upset about how Mr Buckley had treated her in the relationship, and that despite the recording having been made public no further action had been taken by the reporters or other people she had confided in previously,” documents read.

“Ms Cole said she was also upset because she was caught up in this proceeding largely because of the actions taken by the recipients of the first group text.”

She held a belief that “no real harm” would come from sending the text messages and despite knowing not to breach the injunction said, “I thought that if I just surrendered to [Mr Buckley] by breaching the Order, then [Mr Buckley] would be able to take whatever he wanted from me financially and that the proceeding would come to an end”.

Mr Buckley’s lawyers claimed Ms Cole’s breach of the order was due to “her being upset that despite her earlier distribution of the recording to reporters and others no further action had been taken by them”.

“In other words, Ms Cole was disappointed that her initial dissemination of the recording did not cause the plaintiffs sufficient damage,” Mr Buckley’s lawyers submitted.

But Justice Andrew Keogh did not accept Mr Buckley’s submissions, instead accepting that Ms Cole had breached the court order due to “significant ongoing emotional upset”.

His Honour ruled that Ms Cole had acted “irrationally” in sending recordings that she “believed might somehow help her escape the ongoing stress and anxiety of being involved as a party to this proceeding”.

Justice Keogh also stated that Ms Cole had faced “personal and financial difficulties” and was opposed to the magnate in two court proceedings.

Ms Cole was last week handed a $500 fine for civil contempt and ordered to pay Mr Buckley’s legal costs.

In highlighting her personal circumstances to pay the fine, Justice Keogh found Ms Cole had “limited financial means”, had full-time care of the couple’s daughter and had “experienced the trauma of being attacked in her home”.

The case will return to court at a later date.