For three days, Bruce Lehrmann has been partying up a storm with a bevy of glamorous women seen at his home, brandishing bottles of booze and marching around shoeless.
But Daily Mail Australia can reveal Mr Lehrmann’s weekday festivities have infuriated his new neighbours on Sydney’s north shore, with locals complaining about ‘shrieking’ women and ‘selfish’ parking arrangements.
Mr Lehrmann’s controversial party week got started on Tuesday evening when he was spotted in a burgundy blazer, flanked two glammed-up women, outside his new pad.
Moments after Federal Court Justice Michael Lee set a new date for judgement in his blockbuster defamation case, Mr Lehrmann and his female friends charged through the rain and jumped into the back of an Uber, one sipping from a can.
On Wednesday, the party continued when another group of women entered the same property – among them, a blond who made her media debut in March when she appeared barefoot with a vape on the balcony of his old place in Balgowlah.
She approached the home on Wednesday in a black dress with a thigh-high split and black stiletto heels, while juggling car keys, a phone, a bottle gin and half-drunk bottle of scotch whiskey.
And on Thursday, shortly after midday, yet another crowd shuffled into the home carrying boxes of alcohol.
A frustrated neighbour told Daily Mail Australia there has been raging parties at the property over the past ‘three or four weekends’ that end at 6.30am.
Bruce Lehrmann is pictured with two women on Tuesday, moments after date was set for his defamation trial
Mr Lehrmann and his companions braved the rain and disappeared into an Uber
Pictured: Bruce Lehrmann and two women leaving his North Sydney home on Tuesday
‘It’s not loud music, it’s mostly carry-on with the girls shrieking and screaming along to Tina Turner,’ they said.
‘They’re constantly swearing, it’s “f-this” and “f-that”.’
Another neighbour accused guests of parking on the footpath and across driveways, which they said ‘is selfish for parents pushing prams’.
‘It’s quite intrusive because they already have a double car garage to park in,’ they said.
It is unclear whether Mr Lehrmann is living at the property alone or with a flatmate, or if it’s a temporary arrangement while he finds a more permanent option.
Channel Seven had covered his rent at the $2000-a-week Balgowlah property for a year in exchange for exclusive interviews on the network’s Spotlight program, but the year is now up.
Wednesday night’s gathering also included two women who arrived in activewear, holding hands as they walked through the gate. A male friend in a black puffer vest then arrived with another bottle of spirits.
Mr Lehrmann’s partying habits were thrust under the microscope last week when former Channel Seven employee, Taylor Auerbach, made a series of wild claims in the Federal Court.
One woman who was out with Bruce Lehrmann on Tuesday was spotted leaving on Thursday (pictured)
A mysterious blond woman arrived at Bruce Lehrmann’s place on Wednesday night
She is the same woman who appeared on his balcony in Balgowlah, barefoot and holding a vape
On Wednesday, two more women in activewear arrived at Mr Lehrmann’s new place
Among them were allegations that the network’s Spotlight program had paid for Mr Lehrmann’s cocaine, Thai massages, and lavish meals in a bid to entice him into exclusive interviews.
He gave the court what he alleged were receipts for bars and brothels accrued during his time as Mr Lehrmann’s ‘babysitter’, amounting to more than $10,000. Channel Seven has denied the claims.
Mr Lehrmann previously told the court the network only covered his accommodation costs for a year, which worked out to be about $105,000, and reasonable travel costs for filming.
On Monday morning, Justice Michael Lee will hand down his judgement in Mr Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
He launched defamation proceedings over an episode of The Project in February 2021, during which Brittany Higgins went public with her rape allegations for the first time in an interview with Wilkinson.
Ms Higgins alleged Mr Lehrmann raped her in Parliament House in March 2019, when they were both staffers working for the Liberal Party.
He was not named in the broadcast but claimed friends and colleagues were able to identify him as the alleged rapist. He has always maintained his innocence.
The month-long trial was heard in December.
