He fled Britain and fraudulently re-marketed the product as Chow Low Tea in the US where he was caught and forced to serve four months in jail. Undeterred, Foster hooked up with a number of high-profile British girlfriends who he used to promote his 'slimming' Bai Lin Tea. He was also fined $A100,000 in Britain for trying to claim insurance for a cancelled fight. But he was declared bankrupt in the early 80s after trying to sell tickets for a Muhammad Ali fight in Australia that never came off.

'Some of the balls get dropped - there just aren't enough hours in the day,' she said.Īs a teenager in the late 1970s, Foster began promoting nightclubs and boxing matches on the Gold Coast. The revelation prompted a tearful public apology from Cherie, who denied knowing about Foster's criminal past and blamed her 'mistake' on 'trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime ministerial consort at home and abroad.' In them, Cherie called Foster 'a star' and told him 'we're on the same wavelength.' When the deal was exposed, Cherie initially denied Foster was involved, until the Daily Mail printed email conversations between the pair.

It was through Carole that Foster was introduced to Cherie, and helped the Prime Minister's wife purchase two properties in Bristol at discounted rates. He was arrested on a British warrant in Australia, absconded again, and was then re-arrested and spent more time in jail in both countries.Īfter spending some time in Fiji in 2001, he returned to Britain in 2002 where he began dating Carole Caplin, who was then Cherie Blair's style guru. Returning to Britain in the 1990s, he was jailed again - this time for plugging 'thigh reduction cream' - but absconded while on day release and went back to Australia. Foster had already served jail time for fraud when he helped Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, buy two cut-price homes in 2002

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