Kate’s uncle and wife he knocked out make up at Maison de Bang Bang
Police ban Kate’s uncle from talking to wife he ‘attacked in the street’
IT HAS been only weeks since the Duchess of Cambridge’s wayward uncle was kicked out of his home after knocking his wife unconscious in a drunken street row – but Gary Goldsmith and his victim Julie-Ann have now had an extraordinary reconciliation.
The pair kissed and made up during a New Year’s Eve party at his villa in Ibiza, a pleasure palace dubbed Maison de Bang Bang.
Until then, Gary, 52, had spent several ‘miserable’ weeks alone in a hotel after being thrown out of the Central London penthouse he shared with Julie-Ann, 48.
In October, he struck her with a powerful ‘left hook’ which sent her tumbling to the pavement after a night out turned nasty. The couple had argued in the taxi on the way home, with Julie-Ann accusing her husband of taking drugs and him calling her a ‘whore’.
After his arrest, police banned Gary from seeing or talking to his wife while he was on bail, and he was threatened with a restraining order. He was subsequently fined £5,000 for the attack, with magistrate Emma Arbuthnot calling him a ‘mean, nasty drunk’ and ordering him to attend an alcohol rehabilitation programme.
But Julie-Ann’s attitude to her husband of five years softened as she spent the festive period with friends at Maison de Bang Bang – which has previously hosted Prince William – and by the New Year’s Eve bash she was back in her husband’s arms. When asked if they were together again, millionaire Gary told The Mail on Sunday: ‘We’ve had a great New Year. It’s been really good fun, so yes.
‘But we’d prefer to be left to get on with things.’
Before leaving Ibiza this weekend, he tweeted: ‘When two people really care about each other they will always look for a way to make it work, no matter how hard it is.’