31 Facts About Geoffrey Edelsten

Geoffrey Walter Edelsten was an Australian businessman and former physician known for founding the health care company Allied Medical Group.

Geoffrey Edelsten was struck off the medical registry in New South Wales in 1988 and later in Victoria.

Geoffrey Edelsten was not a shareholder or owner of the company.

Geoffrey Edelsten was the first private owner of a major Australian football team, the Sydney Swans, which he bought in 1985.

Geoffrey Edelsten was born in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, on 2 May 1943.

Geoffrey Edelsten attended Princes Hill Public School and, in 1960, matriculated at Mount Scopus Memorial College, Australia's first Jewish co-educational school.

Geoffrey Edelsten went on to study at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1966.

In 1966, Geoffrey Edelsten was credited with co-writing the songs "I Can't Stop Loving You, Baby" and "A Woman Of Gradual Decline" for the group the Last Straws, whose singles were released on his short-lived Scope label.

Later in 1968, Geoffrey Edelsten co-produced the single "Love Machine" for the studio group Pastoral Symphony, comprising Glenn Shorrock and his band the Twilights, Ronnie Charles of the Groop and various other musicians.

Geoffrey Edelsten's clinics were the first in Australia to bulk-bill patients to Medicare so that they incurred no direct cost.

Geoffrey Edelsten eventually owned thirteen medical centres, in which approximately 20,000 patients consulted 200 doctors every week.

On 31 July 1985, Geoffrey Edelsten became the first private owner of a major Australian football team, the Sydney Swans.

In July 1986, Geoffrey Edelsten tried to buy the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks rugby league team, but his offer was refused by the game's administrators.

Geoffrey Edelsten was a long-term benefactor of the Carlton Football Club and in March 2013 the club awarded him life membership.

The evidence used to convict Geoffrey Edelsten included a taped telephone conversation in which he and his wife discussed Flannery.

Geoffrey Edelsten had provided a medical certificate in 1984 stating that Flannery was unfit to stand trial because of an infection following tattoo removal surgery, leading to the trial being adjourned and Flannery's case not being heard by a particular judge.

However, Geoffrey Edelsten was jailed for one year for perverting the course of justice and soliciting an assault.

In 2001, Geoffrey Edelsten launched "Gene E", a company offering paternity testing by mail order.

Geoffrey Edelsten sought readmittance as a medical practitioner in New South Wales.

Geoffrey Edelsten told the commission that he would no longer use the doctor honorific if necessary.

In 2004, the same tribunal banned Geoffrey Edelsten from applying again for four years.

In January 2014, Geoffrey Edelsten filed for bankruptcy in the United States.

Geoffrey Edelsten's Australian lawyers said this was a strategy to "better realise the investments made in the US".

In 2015, Geoffrey Edelsten was a contestant in the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.

Geoffrey Edelsten met and married his first wife, Leanne Nesbitt, in the early 1980s.

Geoffrey Edelsten was 19 years old and working as a model.

In January 2009, Geoffrey Edelsten announced his intention to marry Brynne Gordon, a 25-year-old fitness instructor from California.

Geoffrey Edelsten requested that guests attending his 2009 wedding not give wedding presents, but donate to the Great Expectations Foundation, a non-profit organisation he founded in 2008, which claimed to provide funds to charities including beyondblue, the Royal Children's Hospital and Magen David Adom.

In July 2014, it was announced that Geoffrey Edelsten intended to marry Gabi Grecko, who is 46 years younger.

Geoffrey Edelsten was found dead at his Melbourne apartment on 11 June 2021, aged 78.

Geoffrey Edelsten was buried in a small service at Springvale Cemetery on 16 June 2021.