{"id":519744,"date":"2026-03-05T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:46:08","slug":"luke-sayers-allegedly-told-the-afl-his-wife-was-mentally-disturbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519744\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Sayers allegedly told the AFL his wife was \u2018mentally disturbed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Sayers allegedly tried to taint his wife\u2019s reputation by telling the AFL that she suffered from bipolar as he sought to extract himself from a lewd photograph scandal, according to Victorian Supreme Court filings.<\/p>\n<p>Cate Sayers made the claim in filings as part of defamation action against her estranged husband, the former chief executive of PwC Australia who had been a long-serving director at the Carlton Football Club. She alleges that Luke Sayers invaded her privacy, and lied to the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Sayers allegedly tried to taint his wife\u2019s reputation by telling the AFL that she suffered from bipolar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-519744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519744","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=519744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}