Australian Idol star Paulini Curuenavuli back in court after being caught driving while licence suspended
Singer Paulini Curuenavuli has to appear in court again due to a new driving charge.
The former Australian Idol contestant, who came fourth in the first season of 2003, will appear in Sutherland Local Court on November 28. Daily telegram.
Paulini, 41, was caught driving a motor vehicle “while driver’s license was suspended,” the release said.
The charges are Paulini’s latest in a series of driving violations and come six years after he was given a six-month suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to bribing a government official for $850 to unlawfully obtain a driver’s license.
Court documents show Paulini has committed 11 traffic violations since she first obtained her driver’s license in 2002.
Singer Paulini Curuenavuli has to appear in court again due to a new driving charge. She will appear in Sutherland Local Court on November 28. Pictured in December 2017
After finding fame on Australian Idol in 2003, Paulini claimed that a difficult period in her life led her to make bad choices.
“I have gone through a very traumatic breakup after a tumultuous relationship,” she wrote in a letter to the court obtained by the court. Daily telegram in January 2018.
‘I’m ashamed to say that this wasn’t the first relationship that involved domestic violence and low self-esteem.
Paulini, 41, was caught driving a motor vehicle ‘while license suspended’
‘In addition to the breakdown of my relationship, my failed album release had cost me my savings and my relationship with the record label.’
Claiming that she was on the brink of homelessness, Paulini revealed that she had been forced to move in with her parents despite supporting them financially throughout her career.
“I was completely overwhelmed and didn’t feel like a role model for my family or fans,” she added.
“Not having a driver’s license…was yet another layer to my lack of self-esteem.”
Court documents show Paulini has committed 11 traffic violations since she first got her driver’s license in 2002
Paulini described her decision to bribe a government official as “foolish” and begged her fans for forgiveness.
The entertainer pleaded guilty in September 2017.
On December 15, 2017, she was convicted in a Western Sydney court after the NSW gang squad caught her bribing a government official to obtain a fake driver’s license.
After her learner’s permit was revoked in March last year, she paid a Roads and Maritime Services employee $850 in exchange for an unrestricted driver’s license, according to court documents.
In 2017, Paulini pleaded guilty to bribing a government official for $850 to unlawfully obtain a driver’s license. In the photo in 2018