Brittany Higgins sells her French castle while she scores a job, even though she is granted lost wages for 40 years because they are medically unsuitable for working

Brittany Higgins Has sold her French castle funded by the taxpayer within a few days after announcing a plush new performance.

Higgins and her husband David Sharaz bought the estate with three beds, two bathrooms, about 100 km east of Bordeaux in the southwest Francein 2023.

The exact final race was not clear, but last year followed repeated cuts on the asking price of € 420,000 (AU $ 682,820) to € 350,000 (AU $ 600,000) earlier this year.

Although they were tipped on a large scale to sell the property with a loss after they had repeatedly reduced the listing price, it will undoubtedly have improved the financial prospects of the couple.

Not in the least because it came within a few days after Higgins announced that she would return to the workforce in the third hemisphere of Boutique PRency.

She shared the announcement in the Australian Financial Review In addition to reading a caption: “Your girl is finally back in the staff!”

Higgins took the job, where Sharaz also works, despite the fact that four years earlier received a government arrangement that one $ 1.48 million payment for lost earning capacity.

The former liberal employee submitted a compensation claim in March 2022 after she had claimed that she was raped in parliament by her former colleague, Bruce Lehrmann.

Brittany Higgins is depicted next to her husband David Sharaz. The two have sold a French castle that they bought with the proceeds of a $ 2.4 million commonwealth settlement

Higgins and Sharaz bought the estate with three bedrooms, about 100 km east of Bordeaux in Southwest France, in 2023

Mrs. Higgins shared the news of her appointment on Instagram with the caption: “Your girl is finally back in the staff!”

He has always denied the claims, but that was It turned out that Mrs. Higgins has raped in the field of likely by the judiciary Michael Lee in April last year – a decision that Lehrmann is currently attractive.

In the draft statement of Mrs Higgins, for the first time reported by The Australian Newspaper was said that she had an ‘reasonable expectation that she will be promoted regularly and eventually pursued her own political career, before they suffer from the injuries and disabilities’.

She was ‘diagnosed as medically unsuitable for any form of employment and has received a very bad prognosis for future employment’.

The claims were not tested in court, given Mrs. Higgins, the $ 2.4 million received by payment after a day of mediation interviews.

More than half the amount was with regard to its loss of income, while the rest consisted of medical costs, legal costs and ‘$ 400,000 for pain, need and humiliation’.

The couple bought the house with the help of the yield of the settlement, which she said she retained about $ 1.9 million after taxes and reimbursements.

Within a few months the couple was forced to mention the property for sale to cover her legal costs in the current defamation of her former boss, Linda Reynolds.

A judgment still has to be pronounced for Mrs. Reynolds’ defamation against Mrs. Higgins, who was concluded in September last year after a five -week trial period.

Last year, the couple mentioned the French real estate for the first time to cover the legal costs related to a defamation suit of Higgins’ former boss Senator Linda Reynolds

Senator Linda Reynolds (photo) has started a procedure against the Commonwealth on his regulation with Higgins pending the outcome of her defamation against Higgins

Higgins wrote on Wednesday that she was ‘so enthusiastic to be the new director of Public Affairs for the Female Public Relations Agency’.

“It was so personally important for me that where I finally worked had values ​​that had tailored to mine,” she said.

“To be run in a workplace by a colleague survivor and someone who fundamentally believes in the interest of corporate social responsibility is an absolute pleasure.”

Senator Reynolds started separate legal action against Commonwealth in April and claimed that it was not acting in its interest to reach the settlement.

In a statement that was released at the time, Senator Reynolds said that the payment ‘sent a message’ that the claims of Higgins, including her boss at the time had not supported her after the accusations of rape.