Ex-Block contestant Suzi Taylor charged with robbing, assaulting Tinder date

A controversial ex-Block contestant has faced court today after being charged with luring a man on Tinder date and holding him against his will.

A contestant who appeared on the 2015 season of The Block appeared in court today after being charged with extorting her Tinder date and holding him against his will.

Suzi Taylor, who won $349,000 with friend Yvonne Cosier in season 11 of Nine’s hit reality series, is accused of luring her victim via Tinder and then allegedly assaulting him for money, in what is known as “honey potting”.

She had her bail refused today when she appeared in court with her 22-year-old associate, Ali Ebrahimi.

Seated in the dock wearing prison greens and no shoes, her solicitor said Ebrahimi was the principal offender.

Magistrate John McGrath, however, said given her involvement in the attack of the man, she was at risk of reoffending.

Queensland Police said a 33-year-old man attended a home in the riverside suburb of New Farm, Brisbane, just after midnight on October 30 after allegedly meeting with Taylor, 49.

She allegedly demanded money from him a short time later.

Suzi Taylor, at left, with her fellow Block contestant Yvonne Cosier.

“When the man didn’t comply, another man allegedly entered the room and assaulted the 33-year-old man and held him against his will,” police said in a statement overnight.

“The woman also allegedly assaulted the man before the pair forced the man to undertake an online transaction.

“The pair then allegedly stole his bank card and withdrew a sum of money.”

Taylor and Ebrahimi have been charged with one count each of extortion with intent to gain benefit with threat of detriment, deprivation of liberty, assault occasioning bodily harm and possessing dangerous drugs.

Suzi Taylor.

During her time on The Block, Taylor was at the centre of a nude photo scandal when a passer-by took explicit photos of her posing on top of a boat in Melbourne’s Docklands.

The former Penthouse cover model was then discovered unconscious on the set of The Block four days later during the open for inspections and had to be taken to hospital where she was later found to be suffering a severe anxiety attack.

“They’ve said she collapsed from ‘exhaustion’, but the exhaustion was also the result of non-stop partying throughout the Spring Racing Carnival,” a source told Woman’s Day at the time.

“If I’ve caused anyone any embarrassment, I totally regret it,” Taylor said on The Block at the time. “I’ve had a lot of personal issues in my life which I suppose a lot of people do … I’m on the road to recovery and thank you so much for supporting me.”

In 2016 Taylor’s Block teammate Cosier revealed the pair had not spoken since the show finished, saying they “don’t have that much in common.”

Taylor’s 1991 Penthouse cover.

Suzi Taylor. Picture: Regina King

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