Friday 1 July 2022 01:54 AM Guy Sebastian breaks silence on manager Titus Day being found guilty trends now

Friday 1 July 2022 01:54 AM Guy Sebastian breaks silence on manager Titus Day being found guilty trends now
Friday 1 July 2022 01:54 AM Guy Sebastian breaks silence on manager Titus Day being found guilty trends now

Friday 1 July 2022 01:54 AM Guy Sebastian breaks silence on manager Titus Day being found guilty trends now

Guy Sebastian says he feels relieved and vindicated after a jury found his long-time manager Titus Day guilty of embezzling his money. 

The NSW District Court jury delivered its verdict on Day, who was accused of stealing almost $900,000 from the pop star, on Thursday afternoon. He was found not guilty of some offences.

Sebastian on Friday told 2GB's Ben Fordham: 'I was just really relieved at the end because of it's been four and a half years of going through something very painful.' 

The one-time Australian Idol winner said he watched the verdict as it was streamed live, while pulled over on the side of a road, and did not know what to expect. 

'I feel a lot of things - vindicated is absolutely one of them (also) very confused because I did try everything I possibly could to not get to this point and every step of the way I was met with pretty extreme resistance.

'I just couldn't have seen it not going this way.'  

Guy Sebastian (pictured with his wife Jules) accused his former manager of stealing almost $900,000 between 2013 and 2020. Titus Day was found guilty of more than 30 of 47 embezzlement charges on Thursday afternoon

Guy Sebastian (pictured with his wife Jules) accused his former manager of stealing almost $900,000 between 2013 and 2020. Titus Day was found guilty of more than 30 of 47 embezzlement charges on Thursday afternoon

Titus Day (pictured) has been found guilty of embezzling money from his former star client Guy Sebastian. He was previously acquitted by a NSW District Court jury of three counts of embezzlement at the direction of the presiding judge

Titus Day (pictured) has been found guilty of embezzling money from his former star client Guy Sebastian. He was previously acquitted by a NSW District Court jury of three counts of embezzlement at the direction of the presiding judge

The trial had been beset by woes, including the death of original judge Peter Zahra, the dismissal of five jurors from a panel of 15 and Sebastian contracting Covid-19

Jurors heard the astronomical figures Sebastian was paid for performances, including $494,360 to support Taylor Swift during the four-city Australian leg of her 'The Red Tour' in December 2013. 

Sebastian charged $54,341 to sing at a wedding in Jakarta in July 2017 and McDonald's paid the entertainer $66,000 to appear at a conference in September that year.

The hit-maker also received $49,114.62 for singing at Allianz Stadium in Sydney during the British and Irish Lions rugby tour in 2013. 

Sebastian gave evidence that he had been given a boat, international air fares and the use of two Toyota LandCruisers for himself and his wife instead of cash payment as part of 'contra' deals with major companies. 

Day managed Sebastian for about a decade until November 2017 when the singer terminated their arrangement in an acrimonious break-up.

The court heard Sebastian subsequently found 'anomalies' in financial records suggesting he was still owed payments by Day and in July 2018 the performer launched a civil claim

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