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The socialite ex-husband of Miss Universe Australia is facing bankruptcy after failing to comply with a court order to pay his former employer more than $550,000.
Former high-flyer Justin McKeone, 38, is being pursued in the Federal Circuit Court for the money, while also awaiting his next court hearing on more than 110 charges including obtaining financial advantage by deception relating his time as head of finance at a pharmaceutical sales business.
McKeone’s legal troubles began in 2024 when the company, which traded as Rocket Brands, discovered a number of allegedly unauthorised transactions.
He was dismissed from the company and his former employer took legal action in the Supreme Court of Victoria to attempt to retrieve the money, while also reporting McKeone to police.
In a judgment given in March, and released this week by the court, McKeone was ordered to pay Rocket Brands $556,698.50 including interest and costs after it was found he had breached his contract and his fiduciary duty with the sales company and caused it damage.
Associate Justice Ian Irving said McKeone had “a primary restitutionary obligation to repay to Rocket” after bank and accounting records revealed that between June 24, 2024 and October 7, 2024, McKeone made or caused to be made 114 bank transfers totalling $481,490.33 to his personal bank account.
“None of these transactions were authorised or approved by Rocket,” Irving said. “Mr McKeone admitted that he had stolen the money at a meeting with Mr (Matthew) Holmes, sole director of Cozmic Sales Pty Ltd, held 14 October 2024.
“Mr McKeone’s bank statements show that on each occasion he received the money he misappropriated from Rocket, he used the money almost immediately for his own personal purposes.”
A year later, in March 2026, McKeone was charged by Victoria Police after a 15-month investigation into the case.
However, Rocket Brands has now lodged a creditor’s petition seeking “a sequestration order .… against the estate of Justin McKeone” for the full amount of the Supreme Court judgment plus an additional $63,346.02 in interest.
The petition claims McKeone was served with a bankruptcy notice on March 20 and had failed to comply with the requirements of the notice before April 10.
While he has kept a low profile in the past year, McKeone became a well-known figure among Melbourne’s glamour social set during his time as the beau of high-profile former beauty queen turned podcaster Olivia Molly Rogers.
The couple wed in early 2022, only for the marriage to suddenly disintegrate in October of that year after eight months.
In an unusual and attention-grabbing power move following the end of her marriage, Rogers posted her wedding video to her social media platform with McKeone edited out of it.
Rogers is now expecting her first child with her partner, business consultant Hugo Breakey, while McKeone is in a relationship with Tahnee Leeson, a former contestant on reality show The Bachelor, with whom he has a one-year-old son.
He will return to the court for the criminal matters, for which he has not yet been required to enter a plea, on June 5. The creditor’s petition is listed to be heard in the Federal Circuit Court a week later.
Fiona Byrne is the CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via email.From our partners
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