Lavish gifts: Belinda Leonard was paid generously for her services by Damian O'Carrigan, whose secret life we reported on earlier. Source: The Courier-Mail
Lavish gifts: Belinda Leonard was paid generously for her services by Damian O'Carrigan, whose secret life we reported on earlier. Source: The Courier-Mail
THE high-priced call-girl caught his eye on an escort website and became an expensive obsession that only ended when he was arrested for a record $20 million fraud.
For eight years Belinda Leonard was the secret lover of Leighton Contractors finance manager Damian O'Carrigan, attending to his every beck and call, court documents reveal.
In return, he lavished her with extraordinary gifts, including a 21ha property, a new house and car, overseas trips and the unfettered use of a credit card.
Ms Leonard used the credit card to rack up an estimated $1.4 million in bills, it is claimed.
The Sunday Mail first revealed details of O'Carrigan's incredible double life last month after his wife Julie told of her devastation at discovering his deception. O'Carrigan pleaded guilty in November last year to stealing $20 million from Leighton and is due to be sentenced next month.
Leighton has separately launched a civil action against O'Carrigan and others as it tries to trace and recover its stolen funds, targeting his assets and gifts to family and friends.
Initially, Ms Leonard was referred to as an "acquaintance" in the civil court case but documents filed this week detail her long-running relationship with O'Carrigan.
Like O'Carrigan's wife, Ms Leonard says she had no idea he was using stolen money to pay for his lavish lifestyle.
In an affidavit filed in court, she claimed she was working as an escort "to both female and male companions" on $3000 to $4000 a week in 2004.
O'Carrigan answered her advertisement on website Australian Babe around that time and began paying for her services "on a twice-weekly basis", she claimed. Two to three months later he asked her to work exclusively for him.
Ms Leonard's role was "to provide him with sexual services, companionship and other tasks", the affidavit stated. She would accompany O'Carrigan to company events, look after pets at his marital property, advise on racehorse trainers and shop for clothes.
O'Carrigan told her he made a fortune trading opals and that Leighton paid him $400,000 a year plus bonuses, she wrote.
"Between 2006 and the date I became aware of the allegations in these proceedings, I was required to attend the Fortitude Valley unit at least three times a week," Ms Leonard wrote. "These meetings could be at any time or any frequency and it was simply a matter of waiting for (O'Carrigan) to telephone."
In her affidavit she stated O'Carrigan made a call to her last October to say he had been accused of stealing at work.
"Prior to the telephone conversation ... (O'Carrigan) at no stage ever informed me that the funds provided to me and made available for me to use were the result of any illegitimate conduct."
In 2006 Ms Leonard wanted a 21ha property at Mt Pleasant, northwest of Brisbane.
O'Carrigan wrote in an affidavit filed in court that he spent $800,000 on the land, house, mortgage and additions.
He estimated he also spent $50,000 on overseas trips for Ms Leonard and $100,000 on imported horses and gave her a Citibank credit card.
david.murray@news.com.au
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