Richard White last week took the title of Australia’s richest boss after mining magnates Andrew ‘Twiggy‘ Forrest and his wife Nicola announced their separation.
But the Wisetech co-founder is perhaps rueing the day he passed from a little-known executive to a headline-grabbing figure, given the inevitable scrutiny that comes with it.
His girlfriend Zena Nasser has been propelled into the spotlight with her glamorous lifestyle and love for luxury items coming to light.
Less glossy details about her past have also surfaced after Nasser was accused in 2007 of sharing an ‘improper relationship’ with an inmate while she worked as a criminal defence lawyer.
She recently flaunted her wealth after sharing an ‘unintentionally hilarious’ TikTok video, made by her teenage daughter to her personal Facebook page, the AFR’s Rear Window column reported.
Richard White’s (left) glamorous girlfriend, Zena Nasser (right), recently shared an ‘unintentionally hilarious’ TikTok video made by her teenage daughter to her personal Facebook page
In it, Ms Nasser mouths the words to ABBA’s ‘Money, Money, Money’ from various locations in St Tropez while Mr White works away in the background
In it, Ms Nasser mouths the words to ABBA’s ‘Money, Money, Money’ from various locations in St Tropez, France.
In one clip, she reportedly mimes, ‘I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay. Ain’t it sad?’ as the camera pans briefly past her billionaire boyfriend who is working away on his laptop.
Ms Nasser’s Facebook page has now been locked. Her LinkedIn and Instagram accounts appear to have been deleted.
She describes herself as a ‘mother and lawyer’ on her Twitter page.
Ms Nasser used to work as a criminal defence lawyer, acting for members of the Notorious bikike gang and Michael Ibrahim, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2008 over the fatal stabbing in 2006 of Robin Nassour.
She also represented convicted murderer Bassam Hamzy.
In 2009, the Daily Telegraph reportedly described her as ‘the Rolex-wearing, Gucci shoe-clad daughter of a Lebanese developer’.
She told the newspaper she did not understand ‘the fascination with women representing bikies’.
But she had reportedly been banned by NSW Corrective Services from entering any prison in the state for up to two years in 2007.
The ban came after she was accused of conducting an improper relationship with an inmate.
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Her boyfriend of three years took the top spot on the AFR’s Rich Bosses List after Dr Forrest announced last Wednesday night he was separating from his wife of 31 years Nicola Forrest, wiping $20billion from his personal fortune.
In one clip, Ms Nasser reportedly mimes ‘I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay. Ain’t it sad?’ as the camera pans briefly past her billionaire boyfriend who is working away on his laptop
WiseTech Global founder Mr White is now Australia’s richest boss ousting mining tycoon Andrew Forrest (pictured with CSIRO scientist and Genics founder Melony Sellers)
The Rich Bosses List ranks the wealthiest executives of the 300 largest companies on the Australian stock exchange based on the value of their shareholdings in the business.
WiseTech is a software company focused entirely on the logistics industry that Mr White founded in 1994 after a few other successful businesses and a brief career in a rock’n’roll band in his 20s.
The company was listed on the ASX in 2016 when Mr White was 60 and made him a billionaire by the following year.
White has described himself as a ‘refugee’ from the music industry who is good friends with iconic Aussie band The Angels and once worked repairing guitars for Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC.
While his first love was music he decided the business world suited him more – first making money from guitar repairing to then moving into stage lighting.
White’s $10.5billion stake in is company puts him ahead of Forrest who, after a rearrangement due to the separation with his wife, holds a $9.2billion shareholding in Fortescue Metals Group.
Ms Nasser has subsequently deleted her Facebook and Instagram accounts
