Vanessa Amorosi trial: Tense scenes in the courtroom as the star’s cleaning lady launches a scathing attack on the pop star’s credibility, dismissing her claims about her abusive father and “the happiest day of her life.”

The bitter dispute between Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi and her estranged mother over her family home intensified on the final day of her civil trial.

In his closing speech in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Wednesday, Joyleen Robinson’s lawyer Daniel Harrison launched an extraordinary attack on the credibility of his client’s daughter.

“I think I made it clear that she didn’t remember many dates and events.

“She didn’t even know when the happiest day of her life was when her biological father left,” he told the court.

Vanessa Amorosi’s mother, Joyleen Robinson, was accused by her daughter of “unconscionable behavior”. Ms. Robinson spent days on the witness stand explaining to her own attorney how Amorosi negotiated a deal to give her the 50-acre estate where she has lived for decades.

Amorosi previously told the trial that her biological father was a violent and abusive man who tortured her mother and her family until the day he abandoned her when she was a child.

The singer broke down in tears as she gave evidence in court and explained how she treated her stepfather Peter Robinson, who remains loyal to her mother, as her real father – a man she continued to love as such despite the ongoing dispute.

Mr. Harrison made his comments as he tried to portray Amorosi as a brazen liar in court.

The lawyer justified his comments by saying that Amorosi did not recall deregistering her tour group with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission last year.

He claimed that if Amorosi could not remember, her statement denying that she had made an agreement with her mother to give her the house where she now lives cannot be relied upon as Amorosi can’t remember it.

Ms Robinson spent days on the witness stand last week explaining how Amorosi brokered the deal to give her the 20-hectare estate where she has lived for decades, on leafy hills in lush Narre Warren North, 36km south-east of Melbourne’s central business district. .

Vanessa Amorosi’s former studio (pictured) still sits on the controversial Narre Warren North site

Vanessa Amorosi arrives at the Supreme Court of Victoria on October 13

Mrs. Robinson and her husband are confronted with the creature take to the streets if the judge rules in favor of Amorosi.

“I invite you to form the opinion that the way she answered that question three times – or failed to answer that question – was deliberately evasive and was not the answer of an honest witness,” Mr Harrison said said.

However, Judge Steven Moore, tasked with deciding the case, said these were serious allegations he had not raised during his own cross-examination of Amorosi.

“In fairness to Amorosi, she has not frankly denied this agreement,” he told Mr Harrison.

“She deserves to be given the opportunity to respond to such a serious allegation.”

Woman Robinson was cleaner when Amorosi achieved great success after the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

It’s a job she still holds to this day, paying about $1,000 a week.

It has no other assets on the controversial Narre Warren North property.

The civil suit revealed that Amorosi earned just under $1 million in 2001 after appearing on screen during the 2000 Olympics.

But at the end of 2014, she was evicted from her home in the US after apparently running out of money.

Last week, Amorosi denied ever giving the property to her mother, who she said always called it “her dream house.”

Ms Robinson claims Amorosi promised to buy the property from her for $650,000 – money she would repay her daughter any time she asked.

Amorosi’s stepfather Peter Robinson (left), her mother Joyleen (centre) and sister Natasha (right) outside the Supreme Court of Victoria

Ms Robinson claimed she provided her daughter with thousands of dollars over the years when her daughter fell on hard times.

“My daughter and I were like one person, I loved her, I thought she loved me no matter what she did. She was a good daughter,” she said in court last week .

“When I married my first husband, I was an abused wife. She always said she would build me a nice house and take care of me.

“I didn’t want to take that much money away from my daughter, so we made an arrangement where I thought she would understand that I would sell (my house) if she needed the money, which would require three jobs.”

Amorosi, 42, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2021, claiming her mother engaged in “unconscionable conduct”.

The court heard the singer believed her mother took advantage of her wealth at the height of her popularity when she was a teenager.

“She’s very generous with my money,” Amorosi said.

Amorosi told the court she was brainwashed into believing her mother was the only person who could be trusted with the millions of dollars she earned after becoming a star.

“Friends were enemies, man was the enemy. She would be the only one there with the right intentions, and I believed in that,” she said.

Amorosi, who flew from her home in Los Angeles to Australia to attend the trial, hired forensic accountants in 2014 to investigate her mother’s handling of her assets.

While the main dispute is over the Narre Warren North estate, also at stake is Amorosi’s home in the US, which is owned by a family business that also owes $650,000 to Westpac bank.

The hearing is expected to end on Wednesday and a decision will be made at a later date.