{"id":25376,"date":"2020-05-24T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=25376"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T21:04:27","slug":"the-2-8m-legacy-left-by-one-of-australias-original-supermodels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/the-2-8m-legacy-left-by-one-of-australias-original-supermodels\/","title":{"rendered":"The $2.8m legacy left by one of Australia’s original supermodels"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Supermodel of the 1950s and ’60s Jean Newington.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Nigel Scot McNeil<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean Newington was one of Australia\u2019s top supermodels in the 1950s and \u201960s when she was gracing the pages of\u00a0Vogue<\/em>\u00a0and the catwalks of New York and Paris, but by the time she died two years ago, aged 83, she was reduced to living in a falling-down terrace in Woollahra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the time Westpac took possession of the Queen Street house from her estate earlier this year, the furniture, knick-knacks and \u201ccollectibles\u201d that crammed the rooms had been removed and sold off, and fresh paint, polished floors and styling rendered the interiors almost unrecognisable.<\/p>\n

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The three-bedroom house with no parking sold for $2.8 million under the hammer soon after, thanks to the efforts of two bidders who pushed it above the $2.7 million guide of Phillips Pantzer Donnelley\u2019s Catherine Dixon.<\/p>\n

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The Queen Street terrace was bought by Newington in 2008 for $1.72 million.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a celebrated sale typically with no acknowledgement of the fashion icon who had called it home.<\/p>\n

Newington was a long-time Woollahra local who despite retreating from society soon after her husband Jacques Bonnet died in 2014 was still regaled\u00a0 years after she died as\u00a0 a bohemian eccentric by some and a hoarder and recluse by others.<\/p>\n

Her modelling career started in 1955 when, as a Dover Heights Domestic Science High School student, she was discovered by a photographer and soon after won the Australian Photographer\u2019s Model of the Year contest.<\/p>\n

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