A former Australian star of the ’80s has hit back at allegations he has been squatting in a multimillion dollar house in Sydney.
Per Daily Mail, Yahoo Serious – who shot to fame in one of the country’s highest grossing films of all time, 1988’s Young Einstein – has denied that he is illegally living in a Palm Beach home.
Serious was reportedly living in a granny flat beneath the property owned by Charles Phillip Porter, who has since been moved to a nursing home.
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal was told that Porter invited Serious to stay in the flat after the former actor was living in his car, but eventually moved into the property once Porter relocated.
The home now needs to be sold to pay for Porter’s nursing care, however, Serious is reportedly refusing to vacate.
“I don’t do things that are illegal and I never have,” Serious said.
“The [professional] work I have done has proved that.”
Porter’s landlord and power of attorney, Margaret Charlton, has launched legal action against Serious and in an application to NCAT said: “Due to his diagnosis of dementia, Mr Porter has been placed in a nursing home, and I hold power of attorney for his affairs.
“The Public Trustee has instructed me to sell the property in order to fund Mr Porter’s ongoing care.
“Failure to do so will result in his removal from his current care facility.”
Serious has claimed that he is not aware of any legal dispute or eviction.
“There are a lot of problems with that house,” he said.
“I am not aware of anything, but the truth always comes out.
“I’m just a human who lives with the legacy of being defamed.”
It comes after Serious was evicted from an Avalon property in 2020 for failing to pay rent. He was also ordered to pay $15,000 to his landlords at the time.
Following the huge success of Young Einstein, which pulled in almost $25 million at the box office on a budget of $5 million, Serious followed that up with Reckless Kelly in 1993 which did not enjoy the same results, ticking a little over $5 million.
