Candyman’s Love Life Drama: Ex Nisha Speaks on Three-Way Relationship as He Disappears

The ‘main’ polyamorous girlfriend of Travers ‘Candyman’ Beynon has quietly split from the tobacco tycoon, it can be revealed – as he vanishes from social media.

Nisha Downes moved into the sprawling ‘Candy Shop Mansion’ home of married Mr Beynon – who dubbed himself the Candyman due to his gaudy, Instagram-focused lifestyle – on Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast in 2015.

Now, 29, Nisha confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that she has traded in her old life of wild parties, designer shopping sprees and sex for a more conventional relationship and way of living.

‘I was 19 when I moved in (to his ‘Candy Shop Mansion’) and when I turned 27 I wondered if [the relationship] was what I really wanted,’ she admitted.  

‘I started thinking about my life and how long did I really want to do this for. Stuff like, ‘if we did have kids would I be comfortable in that dynamic, forever?’.’

Nisha Downes (pictured right) was previously the ‘main’ girlfriend to Travers ‘Candyman’ Beynon and wife Taesha (pictured left) – and has now, for the first time, confirmed her departure 

In an interview, Downes confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that she split with the Freechoice tobacco tycoon three years ago

This December marks three years since she farewelled the gaudy home and opulent estate in Helensvale for ‘a new life’.

‘Nothing hectic happened… in the end,’ she said. ‘I just felt being with one person would be a bit more intimate.’

Still living on the Gold Coast, Nisha has traded in her string bikini for corporate attire –  working as a development manager in the construction industry. 

Unearthed footage of her mansion ‘audition’ 11 years ago shows Downes, then 19, meeting Beynon and his wife for the first time, admitting she ‘stalks’ his social media pages and ‘loves to party’.

Later in the video, Ms Downes revealed that she was ‘a bit obsessed’ with the 47-year-old.

She admits she sometimes got a bit jealous of other women in the house, including Mr Beynon’s wife of a decade, Taesha.

Nisha (pictured above) ditched the Candy Mansion for a ‘normal life’

‘I respect that Taesha is Travers’ wife and she respects that I’m his girlfriend,’ she says.

‘Looking at him, I’m like, it’s so crazy to think that’s my boyfriend.

‘My mum was definitely concerned. She did call me and tell me she didn’t want me to move in but I was just like, ‘Well, you can come and see what it’s all about, meet Trav and Taesha so you’re more comfortable with it’.

‘Then mum came up with her husband and mum’s just obsessed with him, and she can see me now for months after living in Melbourne. 

‘I’m healthy and happy. I look better than I have before.’ 

For more than a decade, Beynon’s ‘Candy Shop Mansion’ has been the talk of the Gold Coast with its annual parties. 

Until the pandemic, he regularly hosted hundreds of guests at a time. There was the odd incident. 

Questions surrounding ‘Candyman’ Travers Beynon are beginning to swirl following the tobacco heir’s apparent internet exit. Pictured

In 2015, fireworks set off for his annual shindig sparked a brush fire across the canal, which was witnessed by a Daily Mail Australia reporter who attended the party.  

And in 2018, Beynon was slapped with a $13,000 council fine after complaints about a giant topless Virgin Mary statue.

The flamboyant businessman certainly was not shy about sharing glimpses of his lavish lifestyle on social media with his millions of followers on social media – including stunt photos of naked women lying down covered in sushi. 

But Beynon has since stepped back from posting. He last shared a public update to Facebook back in April 2023, while his last TikTok post occurred in August 2019.

It’s apparently a similar story for the Beynon family tobacco empire, with the main FreeChoice Tobacco site also currently offline.

While its franchise stores are still operating, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported that FreeChoice vacated its Gold Coast head office in February, with the space, owned by one of Beynon’s companies, now leased to a new business.

The flamboyant businessman was certainly not shy about sharing glimpses of his lavish lifestyle to social media

It comes amid what appears to be a period of upheaval for Beynon with the playboy recently having another crack at offloading his Candyland mansion.

Beynon first listed the 14-bedroom canal-side property back in 2023 and, at one stage, it had an eye-watering $25million price tag attached.

The Gold Coast Bulletin reported in May that Beynon had enlisted another agent to give the property the push it needs to get it over the line.

He had engaged the services of agents Ivy Wu and Isaac Kim from Ivy Realty to run an expression of interest campaign for the lavish property.

Travers originally purchased the home, located in the northern Gold Coast suburb of Helensvale, in 2010.

He later snapped up neighbouring land, effectively tripling the footprint of the compound.

The property sits on a substantial 1.4 acres with 175m of private water frontage. The house itself is set across an expansive 2,230 square-metre floorplan and boasts mosaic murals and hand-painted frescos.