Married At First Sight star launches legal action after her home is raided by federal police

Former Married At First Sight star Stacey Hampton is taking legal action after federal police raided her home.

The 30-year-old was woken at around 6.30am on September 20 by Australian Federal Police officers on a search warrant. Adelaide now.

In documents filed with the Federal Court of Australia, Ms Hampton said the search was related to an Australian Taxation Office assessment she is currently undergoing.

She claimed the search was an “abuse of power” and left her son Kosta, 8, “shaken” because he was home at the time of the operation.

Mrs Hampton also claimed that police had searched her children's 'private and confidential medical records'.

Former Married At First Sight star Stacey Hampton is taking legal action after federal police raided her home

She also claimed that they denied her access to a mobile phone to contact her son Kosta while he was on his way to school.

Ms Hampton said AFP officers seized a social media 'ring light', two iPhones, an iMac computer and 'notes on paper detailing the amounts NDIS owed me' during the eight-hour search.

She said she complied with an interview with a Services Australia representative while AFP searched the house.

Ms Hampton has not been charged with any offence.

According to Adelaide Now, the 30-year-old was woken up around 6.30am on September 20 by Australian Federal Police officers on a search warrant.

The surgery came just days after the reality star's two sons passed away following the death of their father a year ago.

Rebels boss Shane Smith was killed in a motorcycle accident in Adelaide's northeastern suburbs on September 13, 2022.

Ms Hampton dated the Adelaide Rebels president from the age of 19 until she split with him in July 2017, a month before he was convicted of bashing two bouncers at a nightclub.

The surgery came just days after the reality star's two sons passed away following the death of their father a year ago