Inside socialite Brynne Edelsten's massive fall from grace after death of elderly millionaire husband Geoffrey
Former millionaire socialite Brynne Edelsten, 42, has gone from the lavish trappings of high society life to the misery of Melbourne's Skid Row where junkies and homeless reign supreme.
Former millionaire socialite Brynne Edelsten has swapped the champagne dinners and lavish mansions of high society for a miserable life above a graffitied Melbourne shop.
Edelsten, now 42, became famous after she married eccentric multi-millionaire Australian businessman Geoffrey Edelsten - 41 years her senior - in November 2009.
The US-born glamour met Edelsten in Las Vegas before arriving in Australia a year ahead the former couple's glitzy $3million wedding at Crown Casino.
Their headline-grabbing wedding featured various celebrities and included a speech from Seinfeld star Jason Alexander - despite the actor not even knowing the couple.
The bride then maximised her fame and model looks with endless red carpet appearances and appearances on TV shows including SAS Australia and Dancing with the Stars.
Edelsten, who was born Brynne Gordon in Oklahoma in the US in 1983, also had her own reality TV show Brynne: My Bedazzled Life.
However, things started going downhill for Edelsten after her marriage to Geoffrey ended in divorce in 2014.
Geoffrey died in Melbourne aged 78 in June 2021.
The Oklahoma-born television personality became famous in 2009 when she married Geoffrey Edelsten, who was 40 years her senior. Both pictured here in 2011.
Edelsten was charged with trafficking and possessing meth and possessing a schedule four poison
Edelsten lives in this halfway house complex above a graffitied Foodworks
The rear of the complex is slightly worse than the main entrance
A series of drug controversies later and now Edelsten, who once lived in million-dollar plus properties in Port Melbourne and the CBD, is now huddled in a Fitzroy halfway apartment block.
The cramped, $300-a-week apartment is near the south end of Brunswick Street next-door to refugee-packed commission housing towers and backs out to an alley full of junkies and used needles.
The Daily Mail witnessed two ambulances arrive at Edelsten's halfway-house complex in less than an hour as media waited for the former socialite to emerge and discuss her latest drug woes.
Edelsten fronted Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Tuesday after police allegedly found commercial quantities of illicit substances in her home.
Victoria Police alleged significant amounts of meth, ketamine and a date rape drug were discovered inside her apartment on Monday.