Rightwing commentator says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by promoter Rocksman
None of the 15,000 ticket holders for conservative influencer Candace Owens’ cancelled Australian tour are expected to get their money back from the promoter, after it spent all its money then collapsed.
Owens herself says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by the promoter, Rocksman, a company with links to the influential conservative lobby group Turning Point Australia.
Rocksman collapsed with just 21 Australian cents in its bank account and will never refund Owens, her Australian ticket holders or other creditors, according to its liquidator’s statutory report to creditors, filed with Asic and dated 3 March.
Owens is a rightwing commentator who has since had a public falling out with Donald Trump.
She wants to place the blame completely on Rocksman, but wasn’t she the one who decided to work with a shady company instead of a legitimate one in the first place?
Also, she’s out of pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars? This amount of money seems excessive to the point of absurdity. It’s so high that it makes you feel like it’s got to be a smokescreen. Like, that’s exactly what you would expect her to say if this whole thing was her grift and she kept all of the money from ticket sales herself.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars seems a reasonable price for a multi-city speaking tour. Venue fees are expensive, considering the cost of the facility and the staffing, plus room and board for the people actually on the tour.
That must be where half of Rocksman’s money went while the other half seems to be reclaimable.
Owens however paid for challenging her visa rejection which Rocksman promised to pay, but hasn’t.
Edit: clarified.
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