Dawn O'Donnell's Mosman trophy sold for $6.6 million

Dawn O'Donnell's Mosman trophy sold for $6.6 million
Jonathan ChancellorSeptember 24, 2015

Aniek Baten, the widow of the lesbian legend Dawn O'Donnell, has sold their home in Mosman for a disappointing $6.6 million.

Paying $5.4 million in 2002, O'Donnell, once Abe Saffron's business partner, made her fortune from Sydney's gay saunas, nightclubs and sex shops.

After her 2007 death it was actors and animals, rather than Aniek Baten, her wife of 30 years, who emerged as the major beneficiaries of her $16 million estate.

Baten started legal action having been left $3 million but not their home in Shellbank Avenue.

It has now been quietly sold through Simeon Manners Property having been listed with initial $8 million hopes.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

 

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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