Vanessa Amorosi calls out her mum in court – as family battle erupts: ‘My mum wanted that property from day one’

Singer Vanessa Amorosi has flatly denied ever agreeing to hand over full ownership of a Melbourne home to her mother.

The Narre Warren property is central to the 42-year-old’s legal case against her mother Joyleen Robinson, which has gone to trial in the Victorian Supreme Court.

Amorosi claims that the $650,000 used to buy the home in 2001 came from a trust account set up to receive all of her earnings as a singer-songwriter.

She wants full ownership of the property, which currently has her and her mother as co-owners.

Vanessa Amorosi arrives at the Supreme Court of Victoria on Friday

Vanessa Amorosi was greeted by the media outside a court in Melbourne on Friday

Ms Robinson claims that in early 2001, Amorosi agreed to hand over full ownership of the Narre Warren home if her mother paid her $650,000 when she demanded it.

The mother said she gave Amoros $710,000 for the loan on her current US home and therefore ownership of the Narre Warren property should be in her name alone.

During questioning, Amorosi repeatedly denied that any deal had been made.

But Ms. Robinson’s lawyer, Daniel Harrison, suggested to Amoros that she didn’t have a good memory and the deal went through.

He also told her that she bought the Narre Warren house for her mother and she never considered it her property.

Ms Robinson (pictured outside the High Court on Tuesday)

Amorosi denied this claim, saying it was the first house she bought for herself and had always thought of it as her own.

“My mom loved that property from day one, no matter what,” Amorosi said in court.

“She made it clear it was her dream property.”

Mr Harrison also suggested that Amorosi had started the legal proceedings because she was in dire financial straits, which Amorosi denied.

The attorney told Judge Steven Moore that Amoros’ recollections were unreliable, not out of malice, but simply because she had a poor memory.

Mr Harrison said they eventually met two people with very different accounts of what did or did not happen.

Judge Moore must see that Ms Robinson’s recollection was the only reasonable one, Mr Harrison said.

Ms Robinson will give evidence at the trial on Friday afternoon.