Thursday 11 August 2022 06:58 PM Where is Cindy Jessup, the woman who 'stole' Olivia Newton-John's first ... trends now
She was the young blonde babysitter blamed for the break-up of Olivia Newton-John’s first marriage after striking up a flirtation with the actress’s husband while they raised money together to fight her first cancer battle in 1994 only to marry him in secret years later.
And in today in an exclusive interview, Cindy Jessup tells DailyMail.com how she is mourning the ‘angel’ star following her death at the age of 73.
Jessup was just 23 when she met Olivia and her then-husband Matt Lattanzi. A beautiful young cyclist from New Zealand, she was invited into the family's home near Byron Bay, Australia, to look after their seven-year-old daughter Chloe. Two years later, Olivia and Matt split, leaving Olivia - 48 and single - battling breast cancer for the first time. Four years later, Jessup, then 28, married Lattanzi quietly in California.
Now, DailyMail.com can reveal how their marriage broke down years later, and how Jessup moved on to marry a successful California transplant surgeon.
The pair have two young kids, attend music festivals including Burning Man, and are great lovers of the outdoors.
Today, going by her new married name of Cindy Fisher, the once vilified blonde is now a trainee relationship therapist and masseuse.
Speaking from her$2.7million San Diego home, Jessup paid tribute to Olivia - who ultimately embraced her marriage to Lattanzi despite her personal heartache for the benefit of her daughter.
'The world has lost a true angel. Olivia cared so deeply about people and the planet. She was such a force for goodness, always helping others,' Cindy, now in her early 50s, said.
Cindy Jessup today, in her early 50s, left, and with Olivia Newton-John in 1994, at the star's farm in Australia. Cindy performed a charity cycle to raise money for breast cancer research after Olivia was first diagnosed with the disease. She often looked after Olivia's daughter, Chloe, and ended up marrying Matt Lattanzi four years after he and Olivia divorced
Cindy Jessup with Olivia Newton-John and Matt Lattanzi preparing for her charity cycle in 1994. Olivia and Matt insisted their split was amicable in 1995, making no mention of his blossoming romance with Jessep, who was then in her mid twenties
Olivia Newton-John with husband Matt Lattanzi and their daughter Chloe in 1991 in California. Olivia and Matt were married for 11 years
Online, she describes her work as helping 'clients attune to their innate inner wisdom and find meaningful connection to themselves and with others.'
Cindy often babysat Olivia and Matt's daughter, Chloe (shown as a child with her mother)
Jessup's name was thrust back into the spotlight this week after Newton-John's death.
The pair first crossed paths in the 1990s while Newton-John and Lattanzi were living near Byron Bay.
She had met Matt in 1993 and bonded over their mutual love of cycling, but were just friends.
The family invited her into their farm to look after their daughter Chloe, then just seven.
A year later, when Olivia was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time, Cindy offered to cycle from Sydney to Perth to
