Dressed in an all-black form-fitting bathing suit and sitting on a golden throne on her newlywed’s knee, Fatima Hage projects an image of prestige and wealth.
After two major confrontations with death, the hapless Sydney hairdresser could certainly be forgiven for finding an outlet in the finer things in life – like the Hermes Birkin handbag, strategically placed next to her high-heeled feet in this wedding portrait.
Six years ago, she survived a gangland hit that claimed the life of her supposed lover, while her new husband had his Lamborghini was set on fire in May.
But Daily Mail Australia can now reveal that a small detail in the glamorous portrait has caused months of ugly mud-slinging.
A woman who was previously in a relationship with Fatima’s new husband, Mahmoud ‘Bargo’ Bargshoon, has accused him of stealing her Rolex, before reportedly giving it to his wife as a luxurious, one-of-a-kind gift.
Sydney hairdresser Fatima Hage, 30, sits on her new husband Mahmoud ‘Bargo’ Bargshoon’s lap, reportedly wearing a watch that has sparked a bitter six-month feud
Ms Hage, 30, strongly denies the allegations on behalf of her husband, claiming she is wearing a different watch and the other woman is motivated by jealousy.
The $12,500 two-tone diamond timepiece, reportedly seen on Ms. Hage’s left wrist in the photo, has been the subject of a six-month feud between the two women.
Rose, 26, from Liverpool, western Sydney, had a brief three-month relationship with Mr Bargshoon last winter.
She told Daily Mail Australia she is “110 per cent sure” the watch on Ms Hage’s wrist is the same as the one she said she lost at Mr Bargshoon’s home in late August 2022.
Rose (pictured), 26, who briefly dated Mr Bargshoon last year, claims the watch she’s wearing in this photo is the same as the one on Mrs Hage’s wrist in the previous photo
Messages between the two women, seen by Daily Mail Australia, show their increasingly bitter feud over the supposedly stolen watch
Before the relationship ended, Rose had her suspicions and confronted Mr. Bargshoon, who denied having the clockwork.
Mrs Hage recently married Mahmoud ‘Bargo’ Bargshoon (pictured). Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting Mr Bargshoon is a thief, only that there is a furious dispute between the two women over a Rolex watch
The builder even sent her a bizarre video of him searching in vain for the Rolex in his house.
“A few months later, friends contacted me saying they’d seen my watch in his room, but I still didn’t give it much thought,” Rose explained.
“But then one of my friends sent me a recording of Bargo’s snapchat in March of him lifting Fatima’s jacket to show off a watch that looks just like mine… like he bought it for her.”
Rose, who manages a gym and runs her own designer clothes rental business, was immediately suspicious and contacted Ms Hage directly.
“At first I contacted her in the nicest way possible, because if another woman contacted me from girl to girl to tell me that the watch my friend gave me might have been stolen, I would return it. throw it in his face,” he said. Rose.
Rose (left), who got her two-tone Dior diamond timepiece from an ex-boyfriend, claims she saw Ms Hage wearing her watch in a Snapchat video. Her watch is pictured on the right
A still from Mr Bargshoon’s snapchat shared with Daily Mail Australia
Ms Hage completely rejected the suggestion, leading to an increasingly acrimonious correspondence over the past six months, which was shared with Daily Mail Australia.
Rose repeatedly asked Ms Hage to share the serial number of the Rolex to undermine the claims
The messages have become increasingly bitter
“She refuses to give me the serial number, despite my asking for it several times,” Rose said.
“We could so easily put this to bed. But she always changes the subject.’
“Some people have said, ‘It’s just a watch,’ but the cost of it is like someone stealing your car. It’s also very sentimental to me because we parted ways on very good terms due to distance reasons.”
However, when contacted by Daily Mail Australia, Ms Hage completely denied the allegation.
‘No, that is not true. I have gone to my lawyer and I will sue the girl for libel because it is not true,” she said.
“She’s just a jealous ex who has a vendetta.”
Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting Mr Bargshoon is a thief, only that there is a furious dispute between the two women over a Rolex watch
Ms Hage denied she was ever asked for the watch’s serial number, claiming that the text messages shared with Daily Mail Australia belonged to someone else.
“My husband is a multimillionaire,” she said. “He would never steal a watch.”
In this publication, Ms. Hage was asked several times to provide the serial number, but she refused.
“I don’t have to justify myself to someone who is obsessed with my partner,” she said.
Ms Hage is suing NSW police for trauma and PTSD following the murder of her lover Kemel Junior ‘Blackie’ Barakat’ while she was reportedly lying next to him in 2017.
Barakat had longstanding ties to the Comancheros and Hells Angels, and was a suspect in the 2016 execution of another career criminal, Hamad Assaad, 29.
Ms Hage and Kemel ‘Blackie’ Barakat were in bed in Mortlake, south of the city at about 2:30am on 10 March 2017, when masked gunmen burst into his unit and executed him in a hail of bullets.
Mr Bargshoon had the Lamborghini Huracan he leased set on fire in the street in May this year
She was later falsely accused of opening the door for the killers and sending a photo of the Sydney underworld figure’s bloodied corpse on Snapchat.
The trial is expected to begin in NSW District Court in six weeks.
Her new husband, Mr Bargshoon, set fire to his $400,000 Lamborghini Huracan on a street in Olympic Park, western Sydney, in May.
Police are looking for two people who were seen carrying jerry cans just before the fire broke out, causing the vehicle to melt on the road.
Attempts to contact Mr Bargshoon were unsuccessful.