{"id":2905,"date":"2008-12-04T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2008-12-03T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:35:21","slug":"south-african-surfer-1-knysna-socialite-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"South African Surfer 1, Knysna Socialite 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/0000014700.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/0000014700.jpg','popup','width=290,height=201,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/0000014700-tm.jpg\" height=\"138\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0000014700\" \/><\/a>In the on-going South African legal feud between &#8220;wealthy Knysna socialite&#8221; <strong>Lesley Young<\/strong> and her former surfer boyfriend <strong>Ian Macdonald<\/strong> it appears that the surfer has ridden one wave to the beach. Macdonald, who co-founded the world famous <strong>Durban 500<\/strong> surf contest in 1969, has won a defamation case again Young who &#8220;falsely accused him of poisoning her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a seven-year romantic stint with her surfing beau, Lesley Young, a breeder of Arabian horses and widow of an apartheid-era homeland minister, must now pay Ian McDonald R160000 [$16,000], and legal and other costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the half of it. Macdonald, whom Young dumped in May for 2006, is still suing Young for half of her R30 million [$3 million] estate and in another case has made a R280000 [$28,000] claim that Young has \u201cwrongfully and maliciously \u2026 launching a false and unfounded application for a protection order \u2026 against him.&#8221; Which reminds us: money and power causes brain damage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.co.za\/article.aspx?id=276296\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatch Online<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the on-going South African legal feud between &#8220;wealthy Knysna socialite&#8221; Lesley Young and her former surfer boyfriend Ian Macdonald it appears that the surfer has ridden one wave to the beach. Macdonald, who co-founded the world famous Durban 500 surf contest in 1969, has won a defamation case again Young who &#8220;falsely accused him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}