Vanessa Amorosi’s plans to evict her mother from family home before Christmas fail – as stepbrother reveals the ‘crazy truth’ about the latest twist in bitter feud

Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi’s plans to evict her mother from her family home before Christmas after a bitter court battle have failed.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal Amorosi’s mother, Joyleen Robinson, 69, will continue to live alongside her family in her dream home in Narre Warren, in Melbourne’s south-east, until her daughter coughs up almost $870,000 in restitution.

In September, Judge Steven Moore set double deadlines for the women, ordering Ms. Robinson to move out within 60 days and Ms. Amorosi to pay restitution by the end of March next year.

But with just days until that 60-day deadline is over, Amorosi’s family told Daily Mail Australia they had no intention of moving.

Amorosi’s stepbrother Anthony Robinson told Daily Mail Australia the 60-day deadline was only triggered after his sister paid his mother.

“The orders are that Vanessa must pay us back the money we gave her with simple interest at 10 percent,” he said.

“It’s been going up every day since the lawsuit started, so by March it will be a million dollars.”

Mr Robinson claimed his sister had to refinance a personal loan secured by the family home to take full control of it.

“It’s only after she refinances the loan that the 60 days start, but she has to get a loan without any assets in her name,” Mr Robinson said.

Once the debt is paid, Robinson says it will pave the way for his sister to take control of the company that also owns her properties in the United States.

The Robinson family claims Amorosi has fallen on hard times amid speculation about her divorce from her American husband.

Amorosi married martial arts trainer Rod Busby in October 2017 and they have one son together, Killian.

Daily Mail Australia asked Amorosi’s spokesperson a series of questions but received no response.

‘The crazy truth is that if Vanessa had just come to Mom instead of doing all this, Mom would have been happy to sell the house. Even if we wouldn’t have anywhere to go. Once we lose this place, we won’t have anywhere to go,” Mr Robinson said.

“Mom isn’t really worried about losing the house. It loses its daughter. Losing her grandson. She really wants to meet her grandson.’

Ms Robinson claims she only learned about the child’s birth through a news report in 2016.

A pile of junk has appeared outside Robinson’s home since September, when the court imposed a 60-day deadline

Vanessa Amorosi is described as a ‘pyrrhic victory’

In September, the Supreme Court of Victoria heard that Amorosi not only could not pay the money, but could not even get a loan to pay the amount.

‘Mrs. Amorosi’s attorney has stated, upon instruction from Ms. Amorosi, that she does not believe that she will be able to obtain a loan to finance the payment of the sum of $650,000 plus interest and that she would instead transfer the property to the Boundary Road wants to sell for the money needed to pay Mrs. Robinson,” Judge Steven Moore said at the time.

“Otherwise she will not have the resources to make the payment without the sale of the Boundary Road property.”

The singer made a big impression in 1999 with the release of her debut single ‘Have a Look’, which reached gold status in Australia.

The following year, she achieved international success with her debut studio album, The Power.

Amorosi performed at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Her performance of ‘Heroes Live Forever’ during the opening ceremony received international acclaim.

But it was her song ‘Absolutely Everybody’ that became an unofficial anthem of the Games and was a big hit in Australia and many European countries, including Britain and Germany.

Her combined album and single sales have surpassed two million worldwide.

Vanessa Amorosi is at war with her mother over the family home

A hut on the Amorosi property in Narre Warren North remains littered with abandoned vehicles

Mr Robinson said there is now further disagreement over what the value of the Boundary Road property actually is.

‘Vanessa is under the impression that the house is worth $2.5 to $3 million for the whole property and (land), but I can tell you a place just down the road on 20 acres, flatter land than this, huge barn, huge house that completely made up, only sold for about $2 million,” he said.

On Thursday, Amorosi’s home showed signs of being a well-occupied property.

A cabin at the bottom of the sprawling property remained littered with abandoned cars, while destroyed air conditioning units rotted outside a cluttered shed.

Mr Robinson said the house needed ‘a lot of work’.

“She’s had real estate agents come in, and so have we, and they can’t agree on what the house is actually worth,” he said.

Mr Robinson described Amorosi’s victory as a ‘pyrrhic victory’.

“It basically means you win, but at such a price it would have been better not to win at all… by the end of this she will lose,” he said.

Nestled above a green hill on Boundary Road, The lawsuit had focused on a claim that Amorosi gifted her mother during a kitchen conversation sometime in 2001.

Amorosi claimed ‘victory’ after a long and public trial in which both she and her mother were forced onto the witness stand before a media circus.

Joyleen Robinson arrived at the Supreme Court of Victoria last October surrounded by family

Vanessa Amorosi in October last year during the trial

Mr Robinson said there would still be a battle in the High Court over who pays what legal costs.

“It seems like everyone is going to cover their own costs,” Robinson said.

As the story continues, Mr. Robinson said his sister’s abandoned belongings, which had been in the house since she was a teenager, were rotting away.

‘Vanessa is really desperate to get her stuff back. She has some stuff in the shed… A lot of it has been eaten by rats. My stuff too. “I’m not happy about it,” he said.

With mystery surrounding when and how the case will finally be solved, the Robinson clan carries on as usual for now, but a dark cloud is approaching in the not-too-distant future.

‘Mum is 69 and dad is 65 and now they have to start over. They had to spend so much money,” Robinson said.

“The only reason we were able to fight for so long is because my grandmother on my mother’s side and my grandmother on my father’s side passed away and they had the inheritance.”

Mr Robinson said he remained convinced his sister believed they continued to hide money and assets from her.

‘It’s crazy. It’s absolutely insane,” he said.

The toll of the ordeal continues to impact his mother’s health, Robinson said.

“It’s hard to just sit there and let your mother suffer,” he said.