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Kyle Sandilands has arrived at the Federal Court of Australia in a black Rolls-Royce, calling his legal dispute with KIIS network owner ARN Media “pretty ugly”.
The former top-rating radio host told a packed media scrum on Friday morning he wanted to sort the dispute out to get back on air and boost ARN’s share price, ahead of a dual procedural hearing for his case and that of his former co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.
Sandilands, ever the showman, pulled up outside the court in the luxury vehicle, bearing the number plate KS20, and was trailed into the building by dozens of reporters, photographers and videographers. “It’s a procedural day today, no fun today,” he said.
Sandilands said he hadn’t spoken to Henderson since their dramatic on-air separation in February, admitting to reporters that things were “already pretty ugly”. “Put me back on the radio. Let’s get the share price back up,” he said.
Sandilands’ 2004 Series 1 Rolls-Royce Phantom is worth, by some estimates, about $1 million.
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Kishor Napier-Raman is a senior business writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously he worked as a CBD columnist and reporter in the federal parliamentary press gallery.Connect via X or email.
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