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A former boyfriend of the woman accusing Mark Latham of abusing her says she made baseless claims about him to police after they broke up.
The man met Nathalie Matthews when they were both working in the transport and logistics industry more than a decade ago and spent about a year in a relationship.
He says after Ms Matthews moved out of his Sydney apartment she returned to pick up a basket of belongings and pulled down a large mirror, which broke.
The man – who is about 20 years older than Ms Matthews – told Daily Mail Australia she later made allegations against him which he vehemently denied and police did not act upon.
Police subsequently sought an apprehended violence order against Ms Matthews to protect the man but it was withdrawn – he says at his request – in June 2015 at Downing Centre Local Court.
Ms Matthews is seeking a restraining order against Latham following the messy break-up of what the independent NSW upper house MP has called a ‘sexed-up, consensual, open arrangement’.
The 37-year-old alleges Latham, 64, inflicted ‘a sustained pattern’ of psychological, financial and emotional abuse against her for almost three years.
She further alleges Latham threw a dinner plate at her and committed degrading sexual acts ‘including defecating on me before sex and refusing to let me wash’.
A former boyfriend of Nathalie Matthews, the woman accusing politician Mark Latham of abusing her, says she made baseless claims about him to police after they broke up
Daily Mail Australia can reveal Ms Matthews has a criminal history which includes offences of receiving stolen goods and shoplifting.
Ms Matthews was charged under her maiden name Darrough with stealing goods worth less than $2,000 from the Camilla fashion boutique at Westfield Miranda in Sydney’s south in 2017.
She pleaded guilty in Sutherland Local Court to shoplifting and receiving and was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond without conviction in February the next year.
Magistrate Glenn Bartley made a separate order that Matthews pay $449 to the store.
Three years earlier, police had sought an apprehended violence order against Ms Matthews, again as Nathalie May Darrough, for the protection of a former partner.
That man, whose relationship with Ms Matthews predated her marriage, laughed long and hard when Daily Mail Australia first mentioned her name to him on Tuesday.
‘There’s so many similarities,’ he said. ‘Don’t get me wrong, I think Mark Latham’s a f***ing d***head.’
The man said his relationship with Ms Matthews had been normal – ‘I suppose’ – and that until they parted ways ‘everything was fine’.
Ms Matthews is seeking a restraining order against Mark Latham, alleging he inflicted ‘a sustained pattern’ of psychological, financial and emotional abuse against her
Eventually, some incident the man could no longer recall occurred and Ms Matthews told him she would be moving out of his apartment.
‘She went a bit funny in the head,’ he said. ‘She said, “I’m moving out.” I went, “Righto, no dram.”‘
The man wondered, with hindsight, if his nonchalant attitude to Ms Matthews moving out of his home had allegedly set her off.
He claimed that when Ms Matthews came around to pick up a basket of clothes ‘she went crazy’ and broke a mirror which was hung behind a television set.
Following that incident, according to the man, Ms Matthews became further annoyed.
‘There was something that she was demanding, I can’t remember what it was,’ he said. ‘And I said, “Nah, that’s not going to happen.”
‘She said, “If you don’t do this, I’ll go the coppers.” I went, “Go your hardest.”‘
‘Whatever she wanted didn’t happen so a week later she went to the coppers.’
Daily Mail Australia revealed last Friday that Ms Matthews worked as an OnlyFans porn star (above) for years before she started dating the former federal Labor leader
The man said he was interviewed by police but the only action they took was to apply for an apprehended violence order against Ms Matthews.
‘I had nothing to be concerned about,’ he said. ‘I answered all their questions and spoke the truth.’
The man said when the AVO application reached Downing Centre Local Court in June 2015 he did not wish it to proceed.
Instead, he wanted Ms Matthews to give a private undertaking she would stay away from him for a certain period of time, which he said she agreed to do.
‘The sole reason I didn’t go through with the AVO is I’m not an a***hole and I didn’t want to ruin her entire life,’ he said.
Ms Matthews declined to comment on the restraining order police had sought to protect her former boyfriend or about any events after that relationship ended.
Daily Mail Australia accepts Ms Matthews has never been found guilty of any domestic violence-related offence.
The man had been vaguely aware Ms Matthews and Latham were in a relationship due to social media posts and read about her AVO application last week.
Since the existence of the AVO application was revealed on July 14, intimate text messages between Latham and Ms Matthews have been leaked (above)
Latham has denied all abuse accusations, claiming that he had ‘scores of documents’ which would vindicate him, and enjoyed a ‘fantastic’ sex life with Ms Matthews
‘When this came out my mother rang me,’ he said. ‘She said, “This looks familiar, doesn’t it?”‘
Latham has said what he called his ‘situationship’ with Ms Matthews ended on May 27 when she confronted him covered in mud.
Since the existence of the AVO application was revealed by The Australian on July 14, intimate text messages between Latham and Ms Matthews have been leaked.
Latham has denied all abuse accusations, claiming that he had ‘scores of documents’ which would vindicate him, and enjoyed a ‘fantastic’ sex life with Ms Matthews.
Daily Mail Australia revealed last Friday that Ms Matthews worked as an OnlyFans porn star for years before she started dating the former federal Labor leader.
Ms Matthews posted graphic images and videos of herself under the name Bondi C** Sl** from 2019 to 2023.
OnlyFans followers typically pay creators for exclusive, usually adult and often explicit, content.
Ms Matthews’ posts – where she enhanced her appearance with AI face-tuning technology – included raw video footage of herself engaged in sexual intercourse with another person, as well as hundreds of explicit images.
Ms Matthews was married to British expat Ross Matthews. Their marriage reportedly ended in 2022, before she began dating Latham. She is pictured in her wedding dress
Her account has since been taken down from OnlyFans, but the material she posted had spread to online fan sites and forums.
The dates of the postings also coincided with her unsuccessful bid to be elected a Liberal councillor in south Sydney’s Sutherland Shire in 2021.
Although Ms Matthews is thought to have been living in the Cronulla area at the time, it is understood she believed the OnlyFans venture would bring in more revenue by using ‘Bondi’ rather than ‘Sutherland’ in her online profile.
Ms Matthews declined to comment on her OnlyFans past but her lawyer told Daily Mail Australia her client ‘has been subjected to character assassination, reputational damage and trial by media’.
‘Domestic violence is a serious issue in our society,’ solicitor Sarah McMahon said.
‘Any individual in genuine fear should have the right to seek protection without vilification.’
Ms Matthews was previously married to British expat Ross Matthews. Their marriage reportedly ended in 2022, before she began dating Latham.
Latham (above in parliament) has said what he called his ‘situationship’ with Ms Matthews ended on May 27 when she confronted him covered in mud
Mr Matthews has distanced himself from his ex-wife, breaking his silence on social media to address the furore.
‘Please stop messaging me,’ he posted on X after the scandal erupted. ‘I don’t speak to Nathalie and do not care. Thank you.’
Leaked WhatsApp messages reported by The Daily Telegraph showed sexually explicit exchanges between Latham and Ms Matthews.
‘Very hard thinking about you,’ he wrote to Ms Matthews during parliamentary sitting hours, shortly after 11am on February 20.
‘Need badly to taste you,’ he wrote that afternoon, alongside an emoji of a tongue.
‘Made it back for first vote after dinner,’ he said at 8.38pm.
Latham told Daily Mail Australia the reproduction of the WhatsApp messages was ‘not accurate’ and has insisted the communications did not impact his work.
Matthews describes herself as the managing director of Skynet Global Logistics, a company engaged in freight forwarding, a role she has held for 19 months according to LinkedIn.
