2018 the millionaire next door audiobook

'Mr Wallace's name came up for someone we could potentially approach for funding,' he told the court during his evidence. In the early 2000s, Shaheen had gone to Wallace's grand Epsom mansion, which he calls Rannoch, to seek funding for the launch of a foundation while working for the Writers Guild. I didn't even want to go to his house that night,' he told the Herald after Wallace's name suppression finally lapsed. I felt I should and I did it, but I didn't choose any of this. 'I didn't want to go to court and get torn apart. Shaheen, a qualified lawyer and former executive director of the NZ Writers Guild and chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, said even as he watched the #MeToo movement unfolding he was still unsure about talking to police. Sir James Wallace arriving at court in 2019. I figured that the least I could do is to stand there beside them.' They had been so brave in standing up to him.

'Once the mistrial was declared, I said to myself 'well, I don't know the reasons but perhaps I can lend my voice to finding justice for these men who have already come forward'. The 2019 trial came to an abrupt halt after a secret recording was uncovered of Wallace's associates conspiring at an Auckland bar on how to continue with their efforts to pervert the course of justice. 'My immediate thought was 'after all this time, he's still doing it'.' He 'immediately knew' the defendant in the trial was Wallace. Shaheen learned about Wallace's other offending after reading a Herald story in 2019 about the trial of a 'prominent businessman'. Maybe now I can get on with the rest of my life,' Shaheen told the Weekend Herald in an exclusive interview. 'I felt the sooner it was all out in the open, the sooner I could start to put it behind me. Photo: NZ Herald/ SuppliedĪ man indecently assaulted by Sir James Wallace regrets not reporting him to police earlier and says the veil of secrecy over the case meant the disgraced arts patron was a danger to anyone else lured back to his Auckland mansion.ĭom Shaheen, now in his mid-50s, was abused by Wallace in the early 2000s, and has bravely waived his right to name suppression to speak out about his attacker. Writer and lawyer Dom Shaheen was indecently assaulted by Sir James Wallace during a business meeting at the rich-lister's mansion.

2018 the millionaire next door audiobook