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LET'S have some good news for the week's end. Melbourne businesswoman Kimberley Kitching, left bankrupt after low-dog hubby Andrew Landeryou skipped town and left her to pay his debts, has had her bankruptcy annulled.
Diary understands the deal was done with the legal team of voracious tycoon Solly Lew who seized and sold the couple's home (Kitching's "wedding present" from Landeryou) two years ago. It leaves Kitching (below), a former Melbourne city councillor and canny political operator, clear to re-enter politics in future. Meanwhile, she has blossomed in her management role at giant multinational Drake, holding court at the after-show of Thoroughly Modern Millie the other night as rep of the major sponsor.
In contrast, Landeryou has deteriorated into a bankrupt internet grub who insiders say has been "near tears" lately as Crikey founder Steve Mayne smacks him around on the new bracksed.com website.
Mayne, who is running for State Parliament, has dubbed Landeryou a "disgraced gaming spiv", a fitting epithet for a spineless twerp who specialises in attacking single women on the web (he screened a photo of one woman's home, broadcast lies about office affairs and pregnancy with another). Latest bracksed.com emails tell of his dirty dealings at the Melbourne University student union in the 1990s. Landeryou has followed the sordid trail of dead defamer Jack Pacholli, using bankruptcy as protection against libel action. Now prematurely bald, obese and developing a peculiar body odour (something to do with his high-fat diet, say associates), Landeryou spends his lonely days fetching internet sticks for his political masters."