A former Block contestant has plead guilty to trespassing, common assault, and stealing after she illegally entered a Southport home on the Gold Coast.
Suzi Taylor, real name Suellen Jan Taylor, appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday regarding an incident which occurred at 7.55pm on October 5, 2024.
Taylor, 54, admitted to assaulting a woman after she and a co-defendant went to the southeast Queensland house on Baretta St in the belief the reality TV star had left property there prior to a 50-day stint in jail last year.
The former ‘high-class escort’ originally faced a charge of entering a premises to commit an indictable offence; however, that was negotiated down to a trespass charge.
Police prosecutor Corey Cook told the court Taylor and her co-defendant went through a locked security gate and knocked on the front of the door of the home.
When a woman of Nepalese origin answered, Taylor demanded: ‘Where’s Jimmy?’
Former Block contestant Suzi Taylor, 54, has plead guilty to trespassing, common assault, and stealing after she illegally entered a Southport home on the Gold Coast
The woman closed the door in response, but Taylor opened it again and entered the property, after which Taylor took the woman’s mobile phone and began to search the place while her co-defendant kept watch at the door.
As Taylor attempted to leave the house with a shopping bag full of stolen possessions and the woman’s phone, the woman followed and pleaded Taylor to return her mobile.
At this point, Taylor shoved the woman in the chest and exited the property with the stolen possessions, but left the phone behind.
Defence lawyer Michael Gatenby told the court Taylor believed she had left possessions in the care of a man named Jimmy prior to her serving 50 days in jail for evading police last August.
He said Taylor was provoked into assaulting the occupant of the home when the woman switched on the torch light on her phone and pointed it at Taylor.
Mr Gatenby added Taylor was enraged because she was previously ‘set-up’ by another woman in the past who allegedly provoked Taylor into a confrontation in order to provide the footage to A Current Affair.
Taylor’s life had allegedly fallen apart after Channel Nine aired the ACA segment.
‘She has fallen so far from being a person who enjoyed some real successes,’ Mr Gatenby said.
Taylor, real name Suellen Jan Taylor, appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday regarding an incident which occurred at 7.55pm on October 5, 2024
He went on to tell the court Taylor became homeless ‘as a consequence of the Channel Nine matters’ and was attempting to put her life back together and seek professional help.
Mr Cook said Taylor has a criminal history of minor drug and property offences which was indicative of someone with substance misuse issues.
After Taylor pleaded guilty, Magistrate Bentley fined the former reality TV star, who appeared on The Block in 2015, $750 and ordered her to pay the complainant $500 compensation.
Taylor has 23 unrelated charges still before the courts, including drug trafficking, but those have been adjourned until April 1.
It comes after Taylor shared a heartbreaking confession in her final social media post for 2024.
Taking to Instagram at the time, the former Block star revealed she is still estranged from her three children Bella, 20, Zac, 18, and Alex, 16, following ‘years’ of legal woes.
Posting a selfie to her followers, Taylor shared the past few years, which have seen her mired in legal woes, had taught her a ‘heartbreaking lesson’.
‘The past few years have been filled with heartbreak. Losing loved ones, the absence of my children in my life,’ she began the expansive post.
Taylor admitted to assaulting a woman after she and a co-defendant went to the southeast Queensland house on Baretta St in the belief the reality TV star had left property there prior to a 50-day stint in jail last year
She claimed family members had cut ties with her due to exaggerated media reports without ‘ever seeking to understand the truth’.
‘This experience has been a heartbreaking lesson in the meaning of family and unconditional love,’ she wrote.
The candid post continued with Taylor admitting the situation had forced her to redefine what family is.
‘Even in the midst of such profound loss and isolation, I have found resilience. I have learned that family isn’t always defined by blood; it can be the unexpected souls who step in during our darkest moments,’ Taylor said.
Finishing the expansive post, Taylor said she was hopeful for a more positive 2025.
‘As we enter 2025, I carry with me the lessons of the past and the hope for brighter days ahead,’ she said.
‘Here’s to healing, new connections, and redefining what family means. May this year bring us all the strength to embrace the love that truly matters. #newbeginnings’
Taylor was arrested in August after she was allegedly caught with methylamphetamine at Southport on the Gold Coast.
Police also alleged the former star was driving a vehicle without a licence and ignored police requests to stop on Stapylton Jacobs Well Road a day before.
The former Penthouse Pet was charged with breaching a bail undertaking she signed on August 1 when released from custody on separate drug trafficking charges.
Taylor’s latest charges include evasion offence at night, possessing dangerous drugs, breaching bail, unlicensed driving as a repeat offender, and failing to stop on a red traffic arrow or stop line.
The arrest came a fortnight after Taylor was released on bail for alleged drug trafficking and other offences.
Police alleged she trafficked heroin, MDMA, meth and marijuana between March 24 and July 13.
Taylor was also charged with possession of drugs, possession of firearms and more than $55,000 said to be the proceeds of trafficking.
Her defence lawyer Mr Gatenby told the bail hearing on August 1 there was little evidence linking Taylor to the alleged trafficking or firearms and other items allegedly found in her storage shed.
He added the $55,000 Taylor was allegedly found with could be linked to her career as a ‘high-class escort’.
‘There are links to celebrities and the like that are alleged to be clients of Ms Taylor, so that’s not a controversial proposition,’ he told the court at the time.
