Mark Gray painted himself as one of Ellie Price’s closet friends, but when she was killed he cut her family off and reneged on an offer to pay for her headstone.
Brothel tycoon Mark Gray painted himself as dancer Ellie Price’s closest friend in Melbourne.
The details of Gray and Price’s relationship and what he shared with her family are now the subject of intense questioning in Supreme Court. Text messages aired in court for the first time on Wednesday revealed Gray wrote to Price’s sister Danielle Price on June 15, 2020, saying it was “not possible to love someone more than I love Ellie”.
“It needed Mark and Ellie to bring it back to life,” he wrote. “When you and mum come down to court or holidays we can visit xx.Gangell maintained she was unaware that Gray ran brothels until after her daughter died, and didn’t know about the messages he was sending Danielle. Gangell denied being aware of this or suggestions Nathwani made that Gray had known violent thugs and some of the “meanest people in Melbourne”, some of whom included security guards also used by bikies.
“I wouldn’t know,” Gangell replied. A horse riding accident in March 2021, Gangell said, had affected her memory.
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