The secret former life of Brynne

Before she led a bedazzled life, Brynne Edelsten was a small-town party girl with dreams of superstardom. Woman’s Day reporter Henry Meller investigates her colourful past.

She’s famous for her outrageous outfits, reality TV series and cashed-up husband – but before Brynne Edelsten found her rich-list Romeo in hubby Geoffrey, she led a very different existence. Woman’s Day travelled to Scottsdale in the US state of Arizona – a place Brynne once called home – and has discovered that the small-town girl came from humble beginnings.

Former colleague and one-time lover Eddie “Spaghetti” Carlee reveals Brynne made a living dancing in clubs including Skin Cabaret. “I was the one who got her into stripping,” Eddie tells Woman’s Day.

“I first met her at a club called the Cat Eye Lounge. I was a bartender there and I got to know her. Then I started bartending at Skin Cabaret, and if you recruited girls you got money, so I asked her if she’d come and do it. I was in love with her – even though we only had sex once, I was in love with her. But she wanted to find a rich guy who would marry her.”

Geoffrey Edelsten is not the first rich man to sweep Brynne, now 29, off her feet. “For a while she dated a rich guy here named Eric Crown but it didn’t work out,” Eddie says. Another Arizona local and former love, Clayton Chase, agrees. “This multi-millionaire was paying her bills for a while and they were kind of dating,” he says. “She said he was her sugar daddy.”