Candyshop Mansion ‘Goddess’ Parnia Porsche turns her back on the controversial tycoon

SHE was the first “Goddess” crowned by the Candyman at his mansion, but Parnia Porsche has left it all behind.

SHE rose to international fame as the first Goddess of Candyshop Mansion, but Parnia Porsche has turned her back on Gold Coast debauchery.

The 20-year-old model and aspiring rapper has moved to the cultural mecca of Melbourne, with dreams of making it big in the music industry.

And tobacco tycoon Travers Beynon aka The Candyman’s latest headline-grabbing stunt could not be further from her mind.

“It was definitely an interesting experience for a short while, and it was good being a promotional model there,” Porsche told news.com.au. “I’m just ready to, you know, move onto bigger and better things.”

The Candyman has courted controversy with his over-the-top lifestyle, which includes keeping attractive young women on leashes and dragging them into a cage.

Pressed for details of whether Beynon’s $3.7 million waterfront estate really compared with Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, Porsche remained tight-lipped, and would not reveal whether she had actually lived on site.

“I can’t discuss that, sorry — I’ve signed a confidentiality agreement,” she said.

“But what I can confirm is that I was a promotional model, a Goddess ... I don’t really have anything to do with it anymore.”

Porsche and Beynon in happier days. Picture: Parnia Porsche/Instagram

The Candyman’s attention-seeking antics have earned him plenty of followers on social media.

“It’s all in the past and I’m just really looking forward to the future and what it has to hold for me,” Porsche said.

“I’ve been performing here in Melbourne and I’m pretty excited to have new music-slash-modelling opportunities.”

Porsche, who has more than 50,000 followers on Instagram, has whittled down her feed to 104 posts, and has removed all images of the Candyman.

Back in May, she proudly posted a snap of the pair together after her official coronation as the mansion’s first Goddess — an honour that was never explained in detail, but clearly involved spending a lot of time in a bikini.

In an Instagram post at the time, Porsche wrote: “Had an amazing night last night being crowned the first @candyshopmansion goddess, setting standards since 2015. Absolutely in love with my new Limited edition Valentino bag! Thank you Travers!”

She went on to issue a call to arms to other potential Goddesses, declaring that there were 11 more positions to be filled.

“It’s not only about how good you look it’s your attitude, the way you carry yourself and you have to work hard! Building a brand is not easy, join the movement! #watchusgrow #StrictBusiness #donthate.”

But when Porsche posted an image of herself poolside at James Packer’s Crown Melbourne three weeks ago, the mood was more sombre.

“Today is one of the days I want to say goodbye to all the negativity,” she wrote.

“This week, some bad sh*t happened. I’ve cut some of the closest people I would almost call family and my best friends. Here’s to a new life that I’ll be living in Melbourne. New opportunities and some new music. Better things are yet to come ... #sitandwatchme #turninglemonsintolemonade #freshstart xx.”

And she was not the first of the Candyman’s models to walk away; Kirsty Engelmann posted similar messages on her Instagram after fleeing the mansion just days before Porsche was crowned.

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves, grows you, or makes you happy,” Engelmann wrote.

“I cared for him before all of the publicity stuff blew up and I realised how he was a manipulative chauvinistic narcissistic person and I didn’t want anything to do with it.”

In response to comments by her Instagram followers that the Candyman was “degrading himself, not women”, Engelmann replied: “Totally agree!”

As for whether Porsche’s Goddess stint had helped boost her career, the model — who is about to film a television commercial for Ultratune with Laura “Rubber Girl” Lydall — downplayed the effect of the notoriety.

“I feel like I have opened opportunities up for myself, to be honest, because I’m pretty out there and, you know, I like to promote myself everywhere I go,” she said.

The Candyman’s attention-seeking antics have earned the former AFL footballer almost half a million Instagram followers, while drawing the ire of feminists everywhere — especially when he took aim at a female television reporter.

During a lavish party at Candyshop Mansion last week, he staged a mock terror attack and fired a gun at a stuntwoman hired to depict A Current Affair’s Leisa Goddard, as revenge for the television program’s scathing coverage.

Porsche is moving to distance herself from the controversy and has been keeping busy at the gym, training for what promises to be an eye-catching series of adverts.

Last year’s BDSM-themed Ultratune ad sparked a barrage of complaints due to its sexual themes, and was named one of the 10 most offensive television ads of 2014 for “treating women as fetish objects”.

But Porsche and Lydall say their new project, which starts filming on Tuesday, will be “empowering”.

“This one will be a little bit different to the others,” Lydall told news.com.au. “It will actually be one of a trilogy of ads, and the basic concept is ‘unexpected situations’. It will involve rubber, because we’re promoting tyres.

“It’s all about unexpected situations so there will be some sort of shock event that will be happening in the ad.”

Asked to rank its raunch factor on a scale of one to 10, Lydall said: “We’re going to be fully clothed from head to toe, so I’m not sure, probably around eight.”

When she’s not modelling, Porsche raps as her alter ego, P Royalty.

Eight on the Richter scale: Laura Lydall aka “Rubber Girl”.

She said the third advert, to be filmed in March, would feature a cameo appearance by a mystery international celebrity.

“We can’t disclose who it is, but it’s a very big star,” Lydall said.

For the time being, the pair — who struck up a friendship after meeting “at a mutual friend’s birthday” — are busy at the gym, spurring each other on in their fitness goals.

“We’re pretty competitive, and it’s quite hard because Laura has such a good body,” Porsche said.

But Lydall has been whipping her into shape, with Porsche reportedly losing 7kg in the past two weeks thanks to a regimen that includes “lots of cardio and boxing, and putting a lot of time and effort into my diet — no sugar”.

Porsche has been in talks with a boxing promoter about fighting competitively, and she has big plans for 2016.

“My goal for next year is to definitely have an EP sorted by then, get really fit for the other ads and stuff like that, because we’re going to be doing our own stunts, so we have to be fit for that.”

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