Disgraced TV star Andrew O’Keefe was spotted picking up a woman in his car in Sydney on Wednesday – and now her identity has been revealed.
In an unexpected twist, it has now been confirmed that the man is a high-profile relative, Elisha Dalah, 35, who was caught stealing from Westfield shopping centre in 2022.
Former Deal Or No Deal presenter O’Keefe, 52, was spotted chatting to Dalah as he picked her up in the upmarket suburb of Point Piper.
The sighting came days after he failed to convince the court that a woman had lied about his abuse. His convictions for domestic violence were upheld.
Dalah, 36, is the older brother of Fishbowl restaurateur Nathan Dalah and sister-in-law of Victoria’s Secret model Georgia Fowler. She is also the daughter of former Elizabeth Bay Marina co-owner Michael Dalah and his wife Michelle.
Dalah is believed to be living with her parents palatial waterfront mansion in the exclusive Point Piper neighborhood.
While the nature of their relationship is unknown, the pair were seen engaging in a friendly conversation as they sat in the passenger seat next to O’Keefe.
O’Keefe had an unlit cigarette in his mouth and looked glumly into the distance as he waited for Dalah to arrive.
Disgraced TV star Andrew O’Keefe was spotted picking up a woman in his car in Sydney on Wednesday – and now her identity has been revealed
In an unlikely twist, the woman has been confirmed as high society relative Elisha Dalah, 35, who was caught stealing from Westfield shopping centre in 2022. Former Deal Or No Deal presenter O’Keefe, 52, was spotted chatting to Dalah on Wednesday as he picked her up from the posh suburb of Point Piper.
Dalah arrived wearing a striped T-shirt and carrying a cup of coffee. As she got into the car, she chatted with O’Keefe.
In May last year, Dalah narrowly avoided jail after he was caught stealing luxury face creams and designer clothes from a Westfield shopping centre.
Waverley District Court heard at the time that the mother-of-one used a ‘de-tagger’ to steal a $249 Tommy Hilfiger jumper and a $170 ‘Youth Lift’ face cream from Sephora in Westfield Bondi Junction on July 14, 2022.
Plainclothes officers saw her leave Tommy Hilfiger and steal the cream, then arrested her and charged her with shoplifting and violating her ban from the mall.
Dalah was arrested after completing probation for other shoplifting offenses.
“I’m sorry, I have a problem, can I pay for the stuff now… I don’t know why I steal, I don’t have to steal, I work, I just can’t help it,” she told police, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The court heard she had been sober for eight months, had attended rehab twice, continued to receive counselling for her drug addiction and had not committed any crimes since being charged.
In May last year, Dalah (pictured) narrowly avoided jail after being caught stealing luxury face creams and designer clothes from a Westfield shopping centre
Dalah is the daughter of former Elizabeth Bay Marina co-owner Michael Dalah and his wife Michelle and is said to live in her parents’ Point Piper mansion (she is pictured with her son)
She started using drugs at the age of 14, injecting heroin after learning her ex-partner had cancer, before the robberies.
Magistrate Milledge said in a brutally honest verdict: ‘Everything I read suggests that you see yourself as a victim – you are not a victim.
“You’ve said, ‘I’m a kleptomaniac, I act on impulse’ – you’re calculating, manipulative, and deceitful, and your family knows that because they’ve been dealing with that side of you for years and years and years.”
Dalah was sentenced to 20 months of intensive corrections and 200 hours of community service, and was fined $500 Entering Westfield Bondi Junction while banned from driving.
Dalah was most recently known to have worked as a barista at her family business Laissez-Faire Catering in Alexandria, Sydney.
O’Keefe was seen with Dalah days after a court upheld his domestic violence conviction on Monday.
District Court Judge John Pickering rejected his lawyers’ arguments that the woman had scratched her arm herself and later blamed O’Keefe.
However, the judge dismissed other drug possession charges after ruling that there was no evidence that items found in a locker in O’Keefe’s apartment belonged to him.
Dalah, 36, is the older brother of Fishbowl restaurateur Nathan Dalah (right) and sister-in-law of Victoria’s Secret model Georgia Fowler (left)
The troubled former TV star was convicted in January of three counts of domestic violence, two counts of breaching a Prohibition Order against him and two counts of possession of a prohibited drug.
He was sentenced to 18 months’ community service under a community service order, which carries supervision and reporting obligations, and a $800 fine for drug offences.
During an attack in September 2021, O’Keefe was found to have pushed the woman against a doorway, struck her with the heel of his hand and forced her to the ground, before kicking her in the thigh and scratching her chest with his nails.
But O’Keefe’s lawyer, Phillip Boulten SC, said the woman’s claim that she had cut her hand on a hinge after being pushed through the door was not supported by physical evidence.
Boulten said that if it was found that the woman had not been truthful about the scratches on her arm, her entire evidence should be rejected.
Judge Pickering told the court he saw no reason why the woman would lie about the attack, noting that she had indicated at the time that she did not wish to make a complaint to police.
“It was clear from her communications with police that she did not want police to get involved in this,” he said.
“I don’t see what the benefit was to the complainant. I am satisfied that the complainant was a truthful witness to this incident.”
The sighting came days after O’Keefe (pictured) failed to convince a court that a woman had lied about him attacking her, and his domestic violence convictions were upheld
As the verdict was read in court, O’Keefe shook his head in frustration and handed written notes to his attorney.
O’Keefe has admitted there was an argument, but he claims he accidentally bumped into the woman because they were so close together, and that he did not push her.
The woman claimed that after her fall, O’Keefe told her, “Good job, I barely touched you.”
Judge Pickering ruled that the court could initially sentence O’Keefe to use an earlier incident from January 2021, in which O’Keefe admitted spitting in the same woman’s eye, to determine who was telling the truth.
“Most men in our community don’t behave this way,” he said.
O’Keefe previously presented Weekend Sunrise, the Today Show and a number of game shows including The Chase until his contract with Seven Network expired at the end of 2020 and he was replaced by Larry Emdur.
