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These are the bathroom selfies Brittany Higgins sent to her ex-boyfriend in her white cocktail dress - just weeks after wearing it on the night she alleges was raped by Bruce Lehrmann.
The photos were part of a tranche of documents uploaded on the Federal Court's website on Tuesday afternoon, amid Mr Lehrmann's defamation trial against Lisa Wilkinson and Network Ten.
Also revealed was a series of texts Mr Lehrmann sent his ex-girlfriend while he was in a mental health facility - two days after Ms Higgins went public with her rape allegations for the first time in early 2021.
Ms Higgins was cross-examined about the white dress in court on Friday, during which she admitted she told police on February 6, 2021, that she put it in a bag under her bed for six months, before taking it out, washing it, and wearing it once.
She made the same claim to the ACT Supreme Court during Mr Lehrmann's criminal trial last year - before she was forced to concede it wasn't under her bed for six months because she had worn it to a work function on May 16, 2019.
Last week, Ms Higgins admitted the dress was actually under her bed for about five days before she took it out, washed it, and packed it for a six-week work trip to Perth with her former boss Linda Reynolds.
Brittany Higgins sent this selfie to her ex-boyfriend - just weeks after wearing it on the night she alleges was raped by Bruce Lehrmann
The photos were part of a tranche of documents uploaded on the Federal Court's website on Tuesday afternoon
She wore it at Senator Reynolds' birthday celebration five weeks after the alleged rape, and took selfies in the bathroom to send to her former flame, Ben Dillaway.
'I'm working on my selfie game,' she wrote, after sending the photos.
He replied: 'F**k you look hot.'
Ms Higgins had told the court they were in an on-off relationship and would sometimes send 'sexts'.
Ms Higgins told the court on Friday that she wore the dress again because it was her favourite and she wanted to 'reclaim' it.
She said: 'I took the photos of myself in the bathroom because I felt awkward that night.
'We were rekindling things - I was trying to be flirty, I guess.'
Mr Whybrow said she sent 'thousands' of messages to Mr Dillaway, but never told him it was the dress she was allegedly assaulted in.
The documents on the Federal Court's website also showed a series of texts between Mr Lehrmann and his ex-girlfriend, Greta Sinclair, the week Ms Higgins publicly alleged she was raped by a 'male colleague' for the first time.
The court previously heard Mr Lehrmann realised Ms Higgins' allegations were about him on the afternoon of February 15, 2021 - after a news.com.au story was published with the same rape claims, and before The Project went to air that evening.
Mr Lehrmann is suing Lisa Wilkinson and Network Ten for defamation
He has continually denied raping Ms Higgins.
Mr Lehrmann was previously cross-examined about reams of messages he sent Ms Sinclair because she was 'distraught' when she found out the rape allegations were about him.
He tried to make her feel better by fabricating information - falsely claiming he had 'two lawyers', could 'make millions' by suing for defamation, and that his lawyer said he was 'part of a bigger political hatchet job'.
He then told the court those message were not accurate - 'I was, in a sense, putting on a
