James' full Monte of trouble
By Ros Reines - Daily Telegraph
JAMES Monte - the good-looking son of controversial, swashbuckling private eye Frank Monte - is in a spot of trouble that rivals his dad's stoush with the Versace family.
Monte junior's "escapade'' includes having a squad of police knock down his eastern suburbs door and winding up in Waverley Court on two counts of common assault with an application for an AVO against him involving his beautiful partner, Georgie Gordon.
Gordon is, of course, the former girlfriend of A-list restaurateur Dave Evans.
They famously broke up when Elle Macpherson came on the scene.
Gordon and Monte have been dating ever since but, by all accounts, the affair has been a bit of a roller coaster ride.
It all came to a head, according to his lawyer Phillip Beazley of Beazley Singleton, after Gordon went to the police on May 24 to discuss her treatment by her boyfriend. This resulted in police arriving at their home in the early hours of May 27 and waking up the couple.
Monte was arrested, taken to Kings Cross police station and formally charged - on his 37th birthday. On May 29, he appeared at Waverley Court where he denied the assault charges.
A temporary AVO against Monte, sought by the police prosecutor, was put in place, with another hearing set down for July 10.
Frank Monte was not in court to support his son and has only recently arrived back in the country from the US, where he is still employed by the surveillance industry.
He left town following his well-publicised court battle with the Versace family, whom he was found to have defamed in his 2002 biography, The Spying Game.
However, he now has his work cut out for him, with his son also due to face court again for sentence on October 8 after pleading guilty to a string of driving offences, including unlicensed driving, driving an uninsured vehicle, two counts of driving with a suspended licence and exceeding the speed limit.
He is now enrolled in the Traffic Offenders program.
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