Susan Renouf
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Susan Renouf (born 1940) is an Australian socialite.
Born Susan Rossiter to Sir John Rossiter and Joan Stewart, she was married three times:
- to Andrew Peacock, prominent Australian politician (in 1963)
- to Robert Sangster, British gambling tycoon
- to Frank Renouf, New Zealand financier
In 1968, she was the focus of a minor political scandal in Australia when she appeared in a TV advertising campaign for bed sheets while her (then) husband, Andrew Peacock, was a Minister in the Australian Federal Government.
She played a tennis match at Kooyong on 4 January 1975 against Bobby Riggs in “a fun spectacular for charity” where the match finished at 3 all. Susan was an A grade competition player who had been runner-up in the Franklin Cup social competition at Portsea.
In 1988, her third husband, Sir Frank Renouf, outlaid what was at the time the highest-ever price for a Sydney home, when he bought the mansion "Paradis sur Mer" in Wolseley Crescent at Point Piper, where the vendor was her second husband, Robert Sangster. The house was eventually razed. After their divorce Frank Renouf briefly married Michele Renouf, (also referred to as "Lady Renouf"), who subsequently gained notoriety for defending the legal rights of Holocaust deniers who are criminalised in many European countries.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Wilson, Peter (14 February 2009). "Pretty Dangerous". The Australian Magazine.
