{"id":257839,"date":"2025-11-02T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257839\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:41:11","slug":"jason-sourasis-resigns-hemisphere-management-scott-pendlebury-lawsuit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257839\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Sourasis resigns Hemisphere Management; Scott Pendlebury lawsuit looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Sourasis, the man Scott Pendlebury<\/a> is suing for more than $2.6m in the Supreme Court, has resigned from Hemisphere Management Group.<\/p>\n

Nine’s chief AFL<\/a> reporter Tom Morris revealed on Sunday via a statement from the talent management company that Sourasis is no longer a shareholder in the company.<\/p>\n

The Collingwood<\/a> star, who is still represented by Hemisphere himself, alleges that $2.1m was shuffled out of his investment accounts. He is also seeking the repayment of a $300,000 loan, interest and damages. <\/p>\n

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\"Scott<\/p>\n

Scott Pendlebury and Jason Sourasis.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

Reports have said the loan was given in 2023, with Sourasis stating that he only needed the money for a day.<\/p>\n

Pendlebury agreed to hand him the loan, but with 50 per cent per annum interest, a debt that he alleges has not been repaid.<\/p>\n

The pair were once close friends, travelling overseas together which each other’s families and planning business ventures.<\/p>\n

Pendlebury hired Sourasis’ Strategic Financial Planning in 2013 in an advisory capacity to help manage his growing wealth.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Age<\/a> in October, Sourasis “vehemently” denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

“The allegations are vehemently denied and as a legal process has been started we can’t make any further comment at this stage,” he said.<\/p>\n

Court documents reveal Pendlebury alleges as many as 50 transactions were made from his accounts, some worth over $300,000, with the money moved into accounts controlled by Sourasis.<\/p>\n

Sourasis allegedly used the money to help his failing A-League expansion team Western United.<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Western United FC players celebrate a goal.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The team was stripped of its license in 2025 and have entered conditional hibernation for the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n

Western United won the 2021-2022 A-League season and the door remains open for them to return at some point.<\/p>\n

Sourasis had hoped to build a 15,000 seat stadium for the team in Melbourne’s west.<\/p>\n

Pendlebury himself remains with Hemisphere Management Group, who negotiated his contract for the 2026 season with Collingwood.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old will enter his 21st AFL season and will attempt to break North Melbourne champion Brent Harvey’s record for the most games ever played at VFL\/AFL level, which sits at 432.<\/p>\n

Pendlebury will need to play just eight games to claim the record in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Sourasis, the man Scott Pendlebury is suing for more than $2.6m in the Supreme Court, has resigned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-257839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}