Leanne Nesbitt Biography – Leanne Nesbitt Wiki
Leanne Nesbitt is an Australian nurse and a former model and actress, known for Neighbours (1985) and The Australian Way: A Salute to Aussie Sex Appeal (1982). She currently works as an intensive care nurse in one of Sydney’s busiest and most respected hospitals – Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital. While in her late teens, she was a model for an agent dubbed Pamela. She is also popularly known for being the former first wife of the late Geoffrey Edelsten who was an Australian medical entrepreneur who founded Allied Medical Group.
Her ex-husband Edelsten, was a general practitioner whose unconventional clinics and lifestyle attracted media attention in the 1980s. He owned mansions, helicopters, and a fleet of Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis with license plates such as Macho, Spunky, and Sexy. His multidisciplinary clinics – the forerunners of modern corporate medical practices – were open 24 hours, and were fitted with chandeliers, grand pianos, and mink-covered examination tables. He was deregistered in New South Wales in 1988 and later in Victoria.
In 1990, he was jailed for perverting the course of justice and soliciting Christopher Dale Flannery to assault a former patient. In 2005, Edelsten and a business partner founded Allied Medical Group, which by 2010 administered 17 medical centers and employed around 250 general practitioners. Edelsten was not, however, a shareholder or owner of the company. Edelsten was the first private owner of a major Australian football team, the Sydney Swans, which he bought in 1985.
Leanne Nesbitt Age
She was born in 1964 in Australia.
Leanne Nesbitt Husband
She was previously married to Geoffrey Edelsten from July 1984 to 1988 when they fully divorced. The couple was divorced after three years of marriage. After her divorce, she remarried and had two daughters. That marriage ended in 2004 and she is now bringing up her daughters on her own. For some time afterwards, she was also linked to Australian critic, author and humorist Clive James for a period of 8 years.
Geoffrey Edelsten was found dead at his Melbourne apartment on 11 June 2021, aged 78. Victoria Police confirmed that the body of a man in his late 70s was discovered in a St Kilda Road apartment on Friday afternoon.His death was however not treated with suspicion.
Leanne Nesbitt Children
She has two daughters from her second marriage which ended in divorce. She never had any children with Geoffrey Edelsten however Geoffrey Edelsten had a son named Matthew Beard who was born in 1989 with a woman identified as Isabel Beard.
Leanne Nesbitt Net Worth
Her net worth is not known. However, her deceased ex-husband, Geoffrey Edelsten had an estimated net worth of about $63 million AUD in 2012. In 2014, he claimed bankruptcy in both Australia and the United States, citing a number of bad business deals including “splurging” millions on ghetto estates going cheap during the US mortgage crisis.