Rosslyn Dillon alleged she was raped three times in the 1980s by Bill Landeryou, a close friend of Mr Hawke, who died in February. At the time, Mr Hawke was close friends with Landeryou, an MP in the Victorian Upper House. He was one of Mr Hawke's chief supporters in his bid to become prime minister, and had his own state funeral held in March. Her eldest sister Sue, 62, and brother Stephen, 60, are also being left the same amount, as is Mr Hawke's stepson Louis Pratt. Mr Hawke's caused controversy when he married his biographer Ms d'Alpuget, with whom he had conducted a long-running affair before leaving his wife in 1995.

Source: Daily Mail December 07, 2019 11:35 UTC