Robbie Williams scammed
Robbie Williams has been ripped off by so-called friends for more than £200,000, it was revealed yesterday.
He was persuaded to part with the cash after two mates begged for help in setting up a fashion label in New York.
But the dodgy duo blew the cash on partying instead. They were among dozens of hangers-on surrounding Robbie’s LA Vale football team.
Many use the Stoke-born singer’s Hollywood mansion as a 24-hour crash-pad. It was only when his closest pals intervened and told him he was being taken for a ride that 33-year-old Robbie kicked them out.
A source close to the star said: “At best Rob was being used, at worst, he was being conned. These so-called friends have preyed on his hospitality and good nature.”
The situation came to a head last weekend when Robbie – who battles daily with his drink and drugs demons – finally confronted his house guests.
A huge row row broke out which ended only when he threatened to call cops.
The group, including the two rip-off merchants, left his house. Robbie has now disbanded his soccer team. The source said: “It was as if the penny had finally dropped and Robbie realised he was being taken for a mug.
“There was a screaming row between him and several people. He accused them all of taking advantage.
“He ordered them all out of his house and told them not to come back.
“But it was when he disbanded the team that everyone became convinced he meant business.
“It’s very much his pride and joy. They all disappeared pretty sharpish.”
Rob’s mansion has been open house to the LA Vale team as well as their friends.
On his website, Robbie often posts images of his footie pals chilling out, including bizarre male bonding rituals in the Jacuzzi.
The singer, who “auditioned” players for the team, has spoken in the past about the dozens of people descending upon his home He said: “The house is quite big and a bit grand, but it’s comfortable and people feel they can put their feet up and chill out, which is good for me.
“I’ve been fortunate because we’ve been together a while now. There’s no nails sticking out that need hammering down. They’re fond of me and I’m fond of them.”
But he also hinted at the strange set-up, saying of his team-mates: “I’ve always wanted to be a member of a gang. So, really, I’ve bought a gang.”
Yet while Robbie has so far revelled in the almost constant company, his inner sanctum believe many of the group had over-stayed their welcome.
One said: “Robbie’s a perfect host and is more than willing to throw open his doors to everyone in the team and their pals. But t’s got to the point where people have been staying over for extended periods of time and clearly taking advantage of him. Rob’s finally had enough and it’s proved to be a massive wake-up call.”
The sorry episode offers an intriguing insight into the weird world that is Robbie Williams’s American adventure.
Moving into the six-bedroom, ninebathroom Beverly Hills mansion six years ago, he had dreams of cracking the US.
But things soon turned sour for him. The American public failed to “get” the singer’s Britishness and his “cheeky chappie” persona began to crack.
To compound his misery, his last album, Rudebox, was panned by critics and a 14-country world tour left him exhausted. He became hooked on anti-depressants and sought treatment in rehab.
A source said: “In contrast to the scores of so-called friends he has now, he became reclusive. He would rather spend time on his own, rarely left the house and preferred the company of his dogs instead.”
The paranoid star claimed he wanted to “disappear” from public life.
He said at the time: “I feel I have overstayed my welcome a bit. I enjoyed tremendous success for 10 years and now it’s time for the Williams to go away in people’s minds.”
Nearly a year later and the situation could hardly be more different.
Rob’s life is a whirl of activity again – from late nights out clubbing to jogging in the Hollywood Hills.
He’s also been buying art works, including several by British street artist Banksy.
But pals say it’s the football team – his pride and joy – that has brought about his re-emergence from self-imposed exile.
As player-manager, Robbie trained with the team for up to three hours a day on a pitch in the grounds of his home.
A source said: “He’s come out of his shell since the football team has taken off. He’s found himself the centre of everything with everyone clamouring for his attention.”
Another friend said: “Robbie wants to be everyone’s friend and on this occasion, people have taken advantage. He has up to 20 people in his house at a time and everyone jokes that he’s the perfect host
“But what were fun times to begin with have started to take their toll. Rob’s become a bit jaded by the whole situation and has started putting on a bit of weight.”
A spokesman for the singer declined to comment. But an aide insisted: “He agreed to give the money but had a change of heart and that’s what the row was about.” (by E. Simpson and T. Bryant / The Mirror)
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Dear Robbie,
how are you feeling my sweet darling – I guess better since those idiots are gone and you have me all to yourself and all alone too :-)hope this little comment is cheering you up…Take care of yourself and keep chillin’ out
love always
Kim xoxo
see you in Sydney soon
ROB LOOK AFTER YOURSELF.IF I HAD TO CHOOSE ANYONE AS A BEST FRIEND I WOULD CHOOSE YOU.LOVE YOUR FUNNY COMMENTS I HOPE YOU FIND THE KIND OF FRIENDS THAT YOU DESERVE THERES ALWAYS SOMEONE OUT FOR WHAT THEY CAN GET HOPE YOU COME BACK TO LEEDS SOON LOTS OF LOVE SHAZ XXXXX
All i have to say is karma!!
I think that it will come back and kick these guys hard in the ass and they will get theirs ten fold!!
I think that it sucks that people think that they have the god given right to take advantage of people just because they know that person has plently of money, it just down right wrong and rude to even ask this of a friend and to someone that you have known less than a year is even worse.
I have learnt that you do not lend money to friends because chances are you will never see them or the money again, and like Robbie i have learnt the hard way and i am sorry to say this but sometimes you have to learn life’s lessons the hard way.
I wish you well Rob and i look forward to hearing some new music from you soon….
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Some people are born scumbags. Unfortunatly the nice people of the world often have to deal with them, but through this the nice people grow stronger.
stay strong. Love from a distance.
H xxx
What goes around comes around.
I believe in KARMA. They will get theirs.
Dawn
I saw the pitcures of you and ayda and I must say you and her remind me of Me and Geoff,
the way you and Mario played with me and then bailed out on me leaving in that state alone to struggle made me miss him more than ever before.
I have been so confused with all these memories and alone, I have struggled to woek out who was real and sincere who actually loved me, really loved me and i can see it now, its clear now, I’m alone except for ghosts and that answers the question
You and Mario reffered to yourselves as David and Geoff and that isnt funny at all,
your both so arrogant at times and I think you believe that your both so much better than me that I should be gratefull for you two having had feelings for me at all, when in fact you both traumatised me and left me alone all these years and only came out of the wood work when you both thought I was getting married and my life had finaly improved, and now that its destroyed and in tatters you have both moved on
How insincere
I forgive both of you I really do, because your not Geoff and David and they meant everything to me and they didnt aboandon me they died, you two are stil alive and just simply dont care…
I wanted to believe in you, I wanted to believe that someone loved me that much, that love was possible after Geoff but I know I will never have that again and some people never have it….
to say you fall out of love as easily as you fall in love is childish and I dont want that who does.
If its not forever its not all….
your love didnt stand through better or worse or the test of time and is meaningless and that is what makes me so sad,
I am angry at both of you for knowing me and what happened and not having any compassion toward me at all, for not being Men and for both being in a pocition to help me and not doing anyhting and worst of all I cant bare the fact that on top of it all your both nasty
I have been through so much more than either of you could imagine ,
your not my friends and yet you both stood in that room and wanted me to choose, Ichose my son, in my mind when you both asked me who I wanted iwanted to go home to my son and clean my house and look after him.
Neither you or he loved me, neither you understand me or know whats important to me and why, or what I need.
Geoff did, and its sad that your all here and he’s not, he was stronger than me and he knew me he used to tell me about me and who I would become and he was right not about what i would do for work or anything like that, but who i’d be inside and what I would need and how I would feel and he was so right about me, its only now I can truly see it,
you reminded me of him so much, it was scary, it really was back then, but that is over and I did love you I really did love you, I wasnt wrong about you, you have become everything i knew you would and I agreed to let you go when I was told to because I wanted to know myself if you would still want me as much as now as you thought you did then, and i prayed to myself to please let you be the one and for you to come back when its all over, Now, its why I agreed,
It made sense in a way, you could have your career I could have let my sons grow up , and if you still wanted me after then it would be real and worth all of what we have suffered and gone through. ten years out of a whole life time didnt seem like long and it was a way we could have it all, but that ten years seems like eternity, it was hell, its been even worse from the time you were here and didnt come. Its passing and I have let go I am jsut alone and that wont last for ever its just a part of it all, its just a season its the winter of my life….
i suppose i am so crazy over it all now because the truth is it wasnt worth it it was a waste of years and suffering and trauma for nothing, it was all for nothing. I cant helpo thinking of Monkee and the other one and the fact it was all for nothing it was all on a whim on somehting that wasnt real.
Of how ridiculous you and Mario are, and how much damage you caused to me and them for Nothing…….
I am embarrassed for both of you I really am, I feel better about my choices and how I have survived this barely, bu tI rally feel embarrassd for you and mario and its easy to forgive you because i dont know you and I dont know him. your not Geoff and he is not David.
I have my sons and I am gratefull I made that choice back then , I really am
I was so close to going with you, and the truth is like now you would never have been their for me at all, not at all….
i will say this this Ayda looks nice and you look good together, she is only a year or two older than my son, that says it all…..
It was obvious they put Rachel and the other divorced blonde women with children onto you to forget about me, and they were bitches and obvious…
They never needed to go to so much trouble did they all they had to do was wait
But this girl looks real, and i get a good feeling from the photos I have seen of you both, and I wish you both well, I feel more comfortable knowing you have someone who is real and not a phony luring you and playing you, in fact I hope you are sincere and you do the right thing this time, and give as much as you take and dont expect so much and dont be so one sided. And should she fall apart stick around instead of running off… Its not all about you you know,
I know I have looked like hell and have been dragged down lowere than ever before by all of this, but I will get up again and look good again, and get back to myself, find my spirit again.
If this doesnt work out for you and you should fall again
Dont come running back to me again, it s over in my mind and in my mind it never ever was, you can take your insincerity and false friendship and love elsewhere,
I forgive you, but I wont be treated this way, I forgive everybody who stood by and let me fall and walked ou on me while I was suffering but I wont let any of you back into my life.
My sons were their for me and we are closer now tha never before, and apart form them I wil never let anyone bakc into my heart.
All of this about getting you out of my heart for good.
I wish you well and always will and I think because of our tragedy I will think of you, and feel loss and sadness and grief, that is for our Monkee and Me. Because i was so badly treated by all of you, I never deserved any of it, not then and not now,
You and Mario can give yourselves all the excuses you care to make up, for what has happened, but their arent any…
My concious is clear and i hope that both of you find a way to clear yours or live with it…….. I really do
where they from stoke
only trust pete your dad rob……………
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syd barret frank sinatra elvis john lennon kurt cobain pink floyd mick jagger rolling stones beatles bob dylan lou reed robert william robbie williams u2 procol harom truth moon ico
syd barret frank sinatra elvis john lennon kurt cobain pink floyd mick jagger rolling stones beatles bob dylan lou reed robert william robbie williams u2 procol harom truth moon ico
syd barret frank sinatra elvis john lennon kurt cobain pink floyd mick jagger rolling stones beatles bob dylan lou reed robert william robbie williams u2 procol harom truth moon ico
OH robb i would like to kick this guy,they are so stupid,but dont worry honey you have my heart and my soul.i love you
you like to make people happy cause thats wat you do just cause your a giver and not a taker dont beat your self up but i know you wont oh well people can get carried away and a bit too big for there boots all comes with partying to the max dont you think never mind . Any way if you need a house sitter let me know i will look after it for you lol…xxx
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