The spotlight has been turned back onto Seven’s current affairs show.
By the water on Billyard Avenue, a sought-after address in Sydney’s genteel inner suburb of Elizabeth Bay, sits what this week became Australia’s most notorious apartment. It was to this classic example of art deco design, purchased by formerproducer Taylor Auerbach’s grandparents in the 1970s, that Auerbach claims he and Bruce Lehrmann brought Thai sex workers one fateful night in late 2022, while the former Liberal staffer was being wooed to appear on the program.
He’s famous for heavy drinking – a hallmark of Australian journalism in the 1980s and ’90s – and often held meetings at the pub. “There have been times in my life where, like others, I have enjoyed a wine,” he said. “This is no secret. However, I am no longer a regular drinker. I spend more time these days exercising either with tennis or the gym.”
“He’s the only one in the business who is still doing this stuff.” Carlton said he’d worked at Seven, Nine and the ABC and “I have never seen anything as brazen and squalid as this”. Llewellyn has also acknowledged his professional decisions have damaged friendships. A decades-long one with Wilkinson would be among them. In an interview by Seven reporter Michael Usher at Sydney’s South by Southwest festival last year, he said, “I did very good friends.
But it was the Lehrmann interviews, the first of which aired in June last year, that blew up the Llewellyn-Jackson-Auerbach triumvirate with spectacular consequences and put the future ofOther outlets, including streaming services and podcasts, flirted with paying for Lehrmann’s story but backed away when his criminal trial collapsed.persisted, and the extent to which Auerbach courted him on the show’s behalf in late 2022 and early 2023 has been alleged in the Federal Court this week.
The person close to the deal said Llewellyn’s broad-mindedness when it comes to stories – as well as Seven’s willingness to spend money on a story others were disinclined to touch – madethe most attractive option for Lehrmann. “ is old school,” said the person on the condition of anonymity. “He’s done and seen everything. He was fully able to see what kind of a shitstorm he was getting himself into with Bruce. In private, has contempt for the media and axes to grind.
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