– the Melbourne sex industry stalwart most famous for her Maxine’s strip club in Brunswick – and bitterly estranged former business partnerFensom sued Williams, alleging his industry awards night, the Adult Industry Choice Awards, was passing itself off as the original night of nights, the Australian Adult Industry Awards – “just like the Logie Awards, only very different” – which remains under her control.
Rofe mentioned failed mediation attempts – “that is unsurprising – there is certainly no love lost between Ms Fensom and Mr Williams. Their personal animus was apparent when both appeared in person at the November case management hearing.” Voting closes at the end of this month on categories, with Best Gentlemen’s Club House Mum, whatever that is, probably the only one we could be confident of getting past the editor.Williams also confirmed his awards are returning this year.
There was Sam, who denies taking bribes, grinning out at us from the page listing the conference’s “thought leaders”, right beside an official City of Casey logo.That might be awkward, we thought, for Casey, the conference organisers and the state government, which had a couple of its big cheeses – one of them a director in the Planning Department – also on the conference bill.
Turns out that Casey wasn’t a bit happy to see Aziz next to its logo and the council had made it clear to conference organisers that the former mayor, who was sacked along with the rest of the council by the state government in 2020, had no business using Casey branding.