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Elle Macpherson drug dealer dates

Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson has been spotted enjoying dates with a convicted drugs smuggler.

The 44-year-old model was spotted driving British-born Brian Burgess, 56, in her convertible Aston Martin in London.

The pair met when Elle, aka The Body, hired Brian's company, Aussie Man & Van, to help her move from Notting Hill to Ladbroke Grove this summer.

Burgess moved to Australia when he was 17, but was deported to Britain after serving time in jail for drug offences.

He was sentenced to four years after being found guilty of drug trafficking in the New South Wales District Court in 1996 when he tried to smuggle 2kg of cocaine inside hollowed-out books from America to Australia.

Burgess left behind a wife and three young children when he was deported back to Britain.

But John Hess, the manager of Aussie Man & Van, said Brian's conviction was 'all in the past', adding: 'This guy spends most of his time counselling people with drug and alcohol addiction.'

Something he knows about first-hand. Upon his arrest, Burgess told the court he was a regular cocaine user, and his lifestyle culminated in him losing his £600,000 home and amassing £20,000 in drug debts.

Elle Macpherson, meanwhile, has two sons, Flynn, 10, and Cy, five, with businessman Arpad Busson, who is now engaged to actress Uma Thurman.

Monday 27 October 2008


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i would like to say people can change and being elle is in the lime light i do not think she would abuse this also he has done his debt to society so let them get on with it, he has lost everything in the past i do not think he will go there again!!!!! also i do not think elle would jeopardise her boys too.
Comment by amanda on October 27 13:59

Elle seems like a nice woman but getting friendly with a ex-drug dealer is not a wise thing to do.
Drug-dealers don't just become dealers over-night there criminal history would go a long way back,stealing cars,theft,shoplifting,Fraud,
desception,then maybe dealing and then importation,trafficking and he maybe convicted of one offence but how many times did he get cocaine into the country before getting caught
The man will con his way through life and people like Elle needs to be aware of the rest of his criminal past,before he cons her into believing his a re-formed criminal
Comment by Anne on October 27 14:29

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