By Quinta Walsh-Cotton, Daily Mail Australia
Updated: July 7, 2024 01:43, July 7, 2024 01:48
John Singleton has reportedly booked a first-class return flight from Sydney to Los Angeles for $27,000 following his disastrous start to the year.
The 82-year-old billionaire advertising executive lost his daughter Dawn in the horrific attack at Westfield Bondi Junction in April, just a month after splitting from his seventh wife, Sarah Walley, after seven months of marriage.
The entrepreneur is currently residing at The Pearl Wellness Retreat and will shell out $9,600 for the millionaire’s listing, The Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday.
While nursing his broken heart at a luxury resort, John will be on a vegetarian diet that includes lots of soup, juice, lemon water and alkaline water.
Other activities include massage, yoga, facials, pilates, a saltwater pool and a daily three-hour hike through Laguna Valley to “calm and center the mind.”
John, who has previously stayed at the retreat for weeks at a time, also must abstain from alcohol, caffeine and refined sugar during his stay.
It comes after his 25-year-old daughter Dawn was one of five women and one man stabbed to death in a terrifying attack at Westfield Bondi Junction by crazed knife man Joel Couch.
Veteran 2GB Radio presenter Ray Hadley broke the news to the grieving father of eight when John frantically called wanting to know if his daughter had died.
“I had the task of calling John back and officially confirming that his beloved daughter had been stabbed to death by this madman,” Ray said after tapping the contact details. New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb provides information about the massacre.
Just a month earlier, John had announced his separation from his new wife, Sarah, 44, after just seven months of marriage.
The octogenarian confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph in March that his marriage to Sarah had ended.
He and Sarah fell in love through text messages and eloped last July, but didn’t go public with their relationship until December.
“Everyone was right and we were wrong,” he told the magazine.
“It’s not the first time I’ve made a mistake, and it won’t be the last. I know I’m half crazy, but usually the other half makes up for it. Sometimes I don’t.”
“After all, you can’t stay married if you’re not happy…”“When you live together, you realise that your lifestyles are different and don’t suit each other,” he says.
The pair met when Sarah accompanied her father-in-law to a pub owned by John in Brisbane.
Sarah was previously Station Manager at Coast FM, a community radio station in rural Victoria.
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