Influencers Revenge Silences Sydneys Mean Girls

Sometimes the best revenge is sitting back and watching the money roll in.

Just ask  socialite Laura Hazzouri - the mother-of-three influencer who was subjected to private mockery among the eastern suburbs' 'old money' set over her showy  earlier this year.

After we reported on the nasty chatter doing the rounds in elite WhatsApp groups, Laura's family has delivered a comeback for the history books. 

They are now officially in the billionaires' club.

Laura's husband Charbel Hazzouri and his cousin Anthony El-Hazouri have debuted on The Australian's Richest 250 list for 2026, joining the ranks as billionaires for the first time with a combined fortune of $2.84billion.

The Hazzouris' wealth, built through their property firm Revelop, has been compounding for years. 

From a humble start in 2008, the cousins have grown their business into a heavyweight operation spanning more than 80 commercial properties.

Their portfolio stretches across key retail centres in Sydney, as well as major acquisitions in and , culminating in headline deals like the $122.5million purchase of Lake Macquarie Square.

For the snobs with intergenerational wealth who scoffed at Laura's 'nouveau riche' travel diary of her five-star trip to the Maldives, the timing is hard to ignore.

While certain members of the socialite set dismissed Laura's lifestyle as flashy or gauche - in light of her humble origins in Dubbo, in regional NSW - now the scale of her family's hard-earned fortune is impossible to ignore.

The followed Mrs Hazzouri as she got her nails done at a high-end salon before returning to her sprawling home to prepare for business-class travel with her husband, Charbel, and their three sons.

It was the kind of content to inspire envy and admiration in equal measure: two YSL beach totes worth $800 apiece were zipped into protective dust bags, thousands of dollars' worth of Cartier jewellery was carefully arranged in travel containers, and a Louis Vuitton beauty case valued at roughly $3,000 was highlighted in a close-up. 

The family then bundled into a car packed with designer luggage, bound for the airport.

Mrs Hazzouri, whose maiden name is Marshall, filmed herself gliding through the terminal with her suitcase and a Goyard tote worth about $3,000, before they all settled into the Qantas Club ahead of take-off.