A $361 steak, $10,000 on massages: ex-Seven producer details alleged Lehrmann expenses

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Taylor Auerbach, a former producer at Seven, has claimed a raft of expenses were covered by the network as it negotiated an interview deal with Bruce Lehrmann.

program has alleged Bruce Lehrmann received perks totalling tens of thousands of dollars including a $361 steak and reimbursement for the cost of sex workers and illicit drugs before he signed an exclusive interview deal with the network.

He claims “statements made by Seven that I was disciplined as a result of misuse of the company credit card” were false, as was Lehrmann’s claim that allegations that a Seven credit card was used to book a Thai masseuse for Lehrmann was “an untrue and bizarre story from a disgruntled ex-Network Seven producer”. Auerbach has threatened to sue Lehrmann for defamation over that statement.

Auerbach alleges in one of his three affidavits that Seven paid for a taxi for Lehrmann from Franca restaurant in Potts Point to Meriton Sydney on January 5 last year and that money Lehrmann paid “for illicit drugs and prostitutes that evening at the Meriton and the following evening at a brothel in Surry Hills were reimbursed to ... by Seven”.

Auerbach alleges that on one occasion Llewellyn took photos of a laptop screen which showed confidential messages which had been obtained under compulsion for Lehrmann’s criminal trial, which could not be used for other purposes.According to one of Auerbach’s affidavits, “Mark Llewellyn’s image which is reflected from the laptop screen is visible on the photographs. I recall that Mark told me he was going to meet Bruce that day for Bruce to give us a ‘digital dump’.

 

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