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MARK SEYMOUR - INTERVENTION ORDER
Information: A couple of unpleasant articles that surfaced in the media about Mark Seymour's intervention order against an ex-girlfriend. Author(s): Katie Lapthorne (Herald Sun), Julia Medew (The Age). Date: 21 June 2006. Original URL(s): http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/ story_page/0,5478,19537633%255E2902,00.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ singer-fears-ex-court-told/2006/06/20/1150701552956.html
Herald Sun - Mark Seymour hunts for intervention order Hunters and Collectors frontman Mark Seymour is seeking an intervention order against his former de facto wife, who he claims is harassing him and his family. eymour says former flame Elizabeth Wertheim bombarded his manager with emails, left an angry message on his frail parents' answering machine and confronted him at a recent concert. He is applying in Melbourne Magistrates' Court for a permanent intervention order barring Ms Wertheim from contacting him. The court heard the pair dated for about four years before splitting at the end of 1992. Seymour and Ms Wertheim, 42, both told the court they'd had basically no contact since, until the emails began in June 2004. Ms Wertheim told the court she began contacting Seymour, his parents and manager to try and voice feelings that she was "domestically abused" during their partnership. "I wanted to mediate a proper resolution to our relationship and get him to understand the damage he had done," she said. The court heard Seymour had sought a temporary intervention order preventing Ms Wertheim from being within 200m of his home or workplace after he heard she planned to turn up to a concert at Scienceworks in Spotswood. Seymour said he hired a personal security guard but Ms Wertheim turned up on May 5 and yelled at him: "Give me the money. Give me the money." Seymour said he was scared by his former partner's behaviour. "I am coming to court because I am compelled by her behaviour and I don't have a choice. "I have done nothing for years and it has not helped. She has kept in contact with me and I am trying to stop that from happening," he said. Seymour denied a claim by Ms Wertheim's lawyer, Shivani Pillai, that he was acting to protect his reputation. "You can put that spin on it, but I am just plain and simply scared of her," he said. Seymour said he was unsure why Ms Wertheim had suddenly begun contacting him again. Bill Doogue, for Seymour, said his client categorically denied he had ever abused Ms Wertheim. Ms Wertheim told the court Seymour should have asked her to stop sending the emails if he was scared by them. She said yesterday's hearing brought some resolution and she would not contact Seymour again. "I don't get to forget Mark Seymour. I hear his songs on the radio. Some of them were written about me," she said. Ms Pillai said her client's actions did not amount to harassment and were unlikely to occur again. Magistrate Kate Hawkins will give her decision today.
The Age - Singer Fears Ex, Court Told Mark Seymour, former frontman of Melbourne band Hunters and Collectors, is seeking an intervention order against a former lover he claims has harassed him and his family since their relationship broke up in 1992. The father of two held his head in his hands at the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday as he listened to his former girlfriend allege he abused her during their 4½-year relationship. Elizabeth Wertheim, 42, of Brunswick, told the court she consistently wrote emails to Mr Seymour's manager and colleagues and had left messages on his parents' answering machine in the past 12 years because she wanted them to acknowledge Mr Seymour's abuse of her. "I don't get to forget Mark Seymour. I hear his songs on the radio, songs he wrote about me," she told the court. Mr Seymour's defence counsel, Bill Doogue, said his client denied abusing Ms Wertheim and had successfully sought an interim intervention order against her earlier this year because he was frightened of her. Seymour spent 19 years fronting the award-winning Melbourne band before going solo in 1998. He wrote such hits as Throw Your Arms Around Me. The performer told the court he had hired a security guard when he performed at the We Built This City concerts in May this year, because he knew Ms Wertheim would be there. "She's dangerous. She attended my house and frightened my children …" he said. The court heard Ms Wertheim had previously pleaded guilty to an assault charge for punching Mr Seymour's wife and was due in court in July for allegedly breaching the interim intervention order already granted against her. Ms Wertheim's lawyer, Shivani Pillai, said her client had suffered ongoing anxiety because of Mr Seymour and had not phoned him or gone to his home or business addresses in the past five years. "What has occurred is not harassment," she said. Magistrate Kate Hawkins will deliver her decision on Mr Seymour's application for an ongoing intervention order today.
There were at least 26 articles in the media on this topic. Most were very similar in nature. We have deliberately not hunted down every article, as we feel it is a private matter.
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