Heloise and Alex Waislitz go their separate ways

Alex and Heloise Waislitz will still be seen together at their children’s school and social events.

Lovers not fighters will recall our report on the philanthropist daughter of the late billionaire box king Richard Pratt, Heloise Waislitz, and her new fondness for the plush confines of celebrity-laden Eve nightclub, just south of Melbourne’s CBD.

Now we know why.

It seems Heloise and her other half, billionaire investor Alex Waislitz, have been telling friends in recent weeks they have given each other licence to see other people, which follows Heloise publicly confirming the couple’s separation in early July.

While they both technically still live under the same expansive roof of their Towers Road Toorak mansion, don’t expect to see them both there at the same time.

Where you will see them together is at their children’s school and social events, with the family apparently still also taking some school holidays together.

And later this month they will link up in New York for the charitable Global Citizen Festival, whose flagship event is a concert featuring Pearl Jam, Beyonce, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran for 60,000 people on Central Park’s Great Lawn.

As chair of the Pratt Foundation, Heloise donated several million dollars in seed capital to help establish the Global Poverty Project.

Alex and Heloise Waislitz will still be seen together at their children’s school and social events.

She will be a VIP guest of the charity at the concert and other events during the week.

Alex has also separately supported the GPP, last year donating more than $1 million through his own Waislitz Foundation to establish an annual $100,000 prize for the “Global Citizen of the Year”, which he will present to this year’s winner at the event.

More for Meares

So it seems there is an upside to life beyond billion-dollar bonds.

Just ask model-cum fashion designer Jodhi Meares, the ex-wife but still close friend of gaming billionaire James Packer.

Meares, who was married to Packer for almost three years from 1999 to 2002, and earlier this year ended her engagement to rock singer Jon Stevens after a domestic dispute, looks to have once more found new love.

Packer, who has been rumoured to be the financial backer behind Meares’ sportswear venture The Upside, spent last week arm-in-arm with his own new squeeze Mariah Carey on the Italian island of Capri, while Meares was in New York also embracing her next phase. Earlier this month Packer and Meares made a stunning arm-in-arm couple at a fundraiser in Sydney, leaving the event together, with Meares a few hours later posting a cryptic Charles Bukowski poem on social media: “I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had, and how I offered you what was left of me.”

That was just after the swimwear model had met and was snapped alongside Packer and his new diva flame on his Arctic Pea ice breaker.

And now it looks like Meares has a new friend too, who just might be Melbourne-born, but recently New York-based “visual artist” and aspiring actor Nicholas Finn.

When not snapping his own chiselled jaw and ink-embellished torso via selfies for Instagram, Finn’s photography extends to urban streetscapes.

Perhaps Meares’ enduring friendship and support from Packer could help her new friend get a foot in the door of the movie industry via her ex’s Los Angeles-based production partnership, RatPac Entertainment, with filmmaker Brett Ratner.

After all, why not share the love.

Big payday for Bouris

We can see why Nine boss David Gyngell has wheeled in mate Mark Bouris and his financial services outfit Yellow Brick Road for an exciting revival of Celebrity Apprentice.

Bouris clearly has some wisdom to impart to the likes of banned and disgraced doctor Geoffrey Edelsten and his new wife, along with other entrepreneurial hopefuls.

Bouris knows how to craft a silk purse from a sow’s ear — the past year saw the businessman extract pay and benefits of $5.7 million as YBL, which is 18 per cent controlled by Nine, made a bottom line loss of $2.55m on revenue of $166m.

Meantime, it’s a more testing time for his son Dane Bouris, who in seasons past has featured on the show as his dad’s “boardroom adviser”.

In April Dane, 33, appeared in the Waverley Local Court on a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm relating to his 22-year-old fitness instructor girlfriend Alexandra Dankwa.

The matter is now set down for hearing at Downing Centre Local Court on November 4.

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