Mystifying alleged crime prices Olympic legend Ian Thorpe a FORTUNE as swimming celebrity rushes to police station – and extra main points emerge

Olympic icon Ian Thorpe has had $150,000 of products taken from his house in an alleged robbery he reported to police in Sydney on Thursday.

The five-time gold medal winner attended Paddington police station within the town’s east to file the alleged crime, which he described as an ‘insurance coverage process’, in line with radio 2GB.

‘At about 4pm on Thursday, June 5, a 42-year-old guy attended Paddington police station to file an alleged robbery incident,’ NSW Police mentioned in a observation.

‘Officers connected to japanese suburbs have commenced an investigation into the alleged incident. 

‘There isn’t any additional knowledge to be had presently.’

Thorpe has now not commented at the alleged crime on the time of writing. 

The Olympic legend (pictured at this yr’s Australian Open with Ben Doolan) reportedly described the alleged crime as an ‘insurance coverage process’ 

‘He has had some issues stolen from his space – watches, jewelry, some private pieces,’ Thorpe’s supervisor James Erskine mentioned on Friday morning.

‘He referred to as up his insurers, they mentioned move and make a police file.

‘I do not know what the worth is, to be fair.’

Erskine added that no gold medals have been taken within the alleged crime.

‘He’s been away, so he does not know when the stuff has been stolen. There appears to be no glaring break-in,’ Erskine advised the Sydney Morning Herald.

‘There’s no lacking Olympic medals. There have been one or two sentimental pieces lacking.’

Erskine added that Thorpe is ‘high-quality’ after the surprising discovery and is ‘now not too troubled concerning the subject material stuff’. 

Thorpe (pictured with Jennifer Hawkins) misplaced watches, jewelry and private pieces within the alleged crime, his supervisor published

‘We consider he is within the pink to the song of $150,000,’ 2GB’s Ben Fordham advised listeners.

‘There aren’t any information about what is allegedly took place to Ian Thorpe.

‘We have no idea if he is been robbed on-line or in particular person.’ 

Fordham mentioned Erskine was once first of all blind to the alleged robbery, however Thorpe advised him he noticed the police ‘to speak about an insurance coverage process’ when he contacted his consumer. 

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Thorpe and his control for remark. 

The information of the alleged robbery comes after Thorpe additionally took a monetary hit in October ultimate yr.

He indexed his luxurious Sydney house within the upmarket suburb of Woollahra – now not a ways from the police station he attended on Thursday – for $3.5million after buying the beautiful four-bed, three-bathroom townhouse in December 2017 for $2.75million.

He had in the past indexed it for $3.7million in September 2023, however didn’t discover a purchaser at that value and was once then confronted with taking a $200,000 hit.

Thorpe did in depth renovation paintings to the valuables, which additionally options open-plan dwelling spaces, a shocking re-modelled terrace and trendy sliding doorways.

Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald in 2023, letting agent Courtney Wong mentioned the house is the ‘perfect one’ within the space, located clear of the road.

‘It’s utterly non-public and secluded,’ he added.

The fresh alleged robbery is not the primary time Thorpe has been a sufferer of crime.

In 2005 his Audi TT coupé was once damaged into in Glebe in Sydney’s inside west, with the thieves stealing an eye fixed.

‘The watch that is lacking has nice sentimental price to me and I might in reality favored it being returned,’ Thorpe mentioned on the time.

The Omega timepiece featured the Olympic brand and was once given to Thorpe on the 2004 Athens Games.   

Thorpe – who starred on Channel Nine’s swimming observation staff for the Paris Olympics ultimate yr – went public with a devastating admission ultimate September.

He published that an abnormal consequence to a drug take a look at plunged him right into a despair so deep he considered taking his personal existence.

Pictured: Thorpe’s townhouse within the glitzy Sydney suburb of Woollahra, now not a ways from the police station he attended, which he took a $200,000 hit on when he indexed it on the market in 2024

Thorpe is pictured celebrating one in every of his 3 gold medals on the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

When the end result was once published through a French newspaper, Thorpe acquired scientific proof that cleared his title, and sued the newsletter for reporting that his pattern had increased ranges of testosterone and luteinising hormone.

At the time the revelation was once so devastating he didn’t need to depart his space, feeling that psychological well being problems will have to be resolved individually, and considering making an attempt his personal existence and staging it as an coincidence.

‘An abnormal take a look at is not unusual. They occur. So at the start, nobody will have to know that knowledge first of all,’ Thorpe mentioned.

‘An abnormal take a look at approach not anything. An abnormal take a look at will get thrown out.’

It was once one of the pressures Thorpe skilled right through his wearing profession.

At 14, Thorpe did not suppose he deserved to compete within the World Championships, puzzled if successful the similar event at 15 was once a ‘fluke’, and felt mounting drive at 17 to win gold on the Sydney Olympics.

‘People have been assuming a consequence that hadn’t took place but. I might be with my mom on the store, and folks would say, “We’ve got tickets to the Olympics, we can’t wait to see you win your first gold medal”,’ he mentioned.

‘I could not break out that a part of it. Then it began being overestimated increasingly and extra. I used to be surrounded through it.’