{"id":425318,"date":"2026-05-13T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425318\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:48:10","slug":"wellington-landlord-admits-making-and-publishing-intimate-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425318\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington landlord admits making and publishing intimate recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Matthew<\/p>\n

\nMatthew Ryan has admitted making and publishing intimate visual recordings.
\nPhoto: DCM \/ supplied\n<\/p>\n

A well-known Wellington landlord who owns numerous properties has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of making and publishing intimate recordings.<\/p>\n

Matthew Ryan appeared at the Wellington District Court on Wednesday, wearing a moon boot and using a walking frame.<\/p>\n

He entered guilty pleas to two counts each of making an intimate visual recording and publishing an intimate visual recording.<\/p>\n

Ryan has entered not guilty pleas to a number of other charges, which include threatening to kill and strangulation.<\/p>\n

His trial is expected late this year or early 2027.<\/p>\n

Who is Matthew Ryan?<\/p>\n

Ryan has owned more than 100 properties, and regularly spoken to the media about the housing market and property investment.<\/p>\n

DCM, the organisation supporting homeless people in Wellington, has praised him for leasing some homes for community housing.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Ryan was involved in a Tenancy Tribunal case when a foreign diplomat avoided paying her landlords – Ryan and Rebecca Van Den Bos – more than $20,000 she owed, due to diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n

Ryan was also caught up in a 2019 tenancy stoush with former Wellington Phoenix owner and TV star Terry Serepisos, Stuff reported.<\/p>\n

The Tenancy Tribunal ruled in Ryan’s favour and allowed him to kick Serepisos out of a house Ryan bought from Serepisos’ mother, which Serepisos had been refusing to leave, it said.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Ryan has admitted making and publishing intimate visual recordings. Photo: DCM \/ supplied A well-known Wellington landlord…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-425318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}