Tara Cosoleto
Socialite and former reality television star Brynne Edelsten will no longer face drug trafficking charges after indicating she will instead plead guilty to possession offences.
The 43-year-old faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning for a brief hearing in which her lawyer confirmed the case had been resolved.
The American-born former wife of late businessman and deregistered doctor Geoffrey Edelsten originally faced nine charges, including one count of trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine.
But on Monday, barrister Veronika Drago told the court the case had resolved to charges of possessing methamphetamine and another illicit substance that metabolises as GHB.
Magistrate Vincenzo Caltabiano adjourned the matter to August, when Edelsten is expected to apply to have it finalised in the Magistrates’ Court.
Edelsten did not speak during Monday’s brief hearing. She stood when the magistrate extended her bail to the next court date.
Her bail conditions include reporting to police three times a week and surrendering her passport.
She is to return to Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August 12.
Edelsten rose to prominence in 2009, when she married Geoffrey Edelsten, a man 40 years her senior. The marriage ended in 2014.
Geoffrey Edelsten was a former GP and entrepreneur known for his ownership of the Sydney Swans in the 1980s.
The controversial figure also spent time in jail in 1990 after he solicited a hitman to assault a former patient, having already been struck off the medical register in 1987 for overservicing patients.
More than 40 creditors chased him down in 2016, five years before his death in 2021, aged 78.
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