Exclusive: Former Greens senator denies relationship with Dean Martin and says she was told by her then party’s lawyers to say she dated him
has denied she ever dated former Rebels bikie boss Dean Martin and instead alleged she was told by lawyers for the Greens to claim the pair had a relationship.
Thorpe, who quit the Greens to sit on the crossbench in February, referred herself to the Senate’s privileges committee last October after media coverage of her links to Martin, a former member of the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang. She told the ABC the pair “briefly dated in early 2021”.asked Thorpe to quit as the Greens’ deputy Senate leader
In a letter to the privileges committee, dated November 2022, Thorpe wrote: “Dean Martin and I met through Blak activism and briefly dated. Specifically, we met on 26 January 2021 at an Invasion Day rally and dated in March 2021.” “I questioned that one word [dating] a lot, and that’s how it all came out, and I just had to cop it on the chin.
“The information in the letter is consistent with the information Senator Thorpe and others provided to us,” they said. “I think I deserve an apology from the leader of the Greens. I lost my position as well, for what? For a kiss on Invasion Day with some black man at a rally, who happened to be an ex-biker. I didn’t ask for his resume.”
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