Panicked missed calls and ‘silly’ seat demands: New texts expose Lehrmann interview tensions

Only five days after accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann is alleged to have enjoyed two cocaine-fuelled nights at fancy restaurants and a visit to A Touch More Class brothel in Surry Hills – partially on the Channel Seven dime – a potential crisis threatened what Seven’sIt was January 11, 2023, andsupervising producer Steve Jackson was desperately trying to ring his colleague Taylor Auerbach, the producer appointed to be Lehrmann’s babysitter and minder.

The Toowoomba matter will return to court in June for a committal hearing and Lehrmann’s lawyers have indicated he intends to enter a plea of not guilty.During mid-October 2022, Auerbach was dispatched to Canberra to sit in on Lehrmann’s rape trial with the hope of signing him up for an exclusive interview.

“If we can seal it, we’ve got to make it BIG. Will take a lot of work to cover all bases, recres that unseen vision and audio. It should be the most amazing thing on Australian TV ever,” Jackson replied. Only a month after his rape trial collapsed due to juror misconduct, Lehrmann, Macgowan, Auerbach and Llewellyn were nutting the deal at the upmarket Italian restaurant, Cipri, in the Sydney suburb of Paddington.

Three weeks later, on December 18, Lehrmann, Auerbach, Llewellyn and Macgowan enjoyed a golf weekend in Tasmania. In early January, Lehrmann was again on the hunt for favours.On January 3, Lehrmann texted Auerbach saying: “I’m thinking about giving Mark a call and getting me up tomorrow to Sydney for a week perhaps.”“Your man isn’t going to come off well if he wants to be seen playing golf and watching cricket in a box,” said Jackson to Auerbach in a text.

Asked by Mathew Collins SC for Channel Ten what the $750 charge for “pre-production expenses” related to, Auerbach replied: “Mr Lehrmann’s expenditure on cocaine and prostitutes.”

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