Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) columnist Andrew Hornery has
claimed that it was top notch designer Carl Kapp’s publicist who had
pitched details of Rosmah Mansor’s alleged A$100,000 (RM325,000)
shopping spree during her holiday in the Australian city.
Hornery (right)
vouched for the contents of the gossip column published on Saturday,
saying that he had verified the details with Kapp after the fashion blog
Frockwriter reported on the visit of premier Najib Abdul Razak and wife Rosmah to the Kapp boutique apparently after the
premier's wife saw Kapp's collection at a department store.
In responding to Rosmah’s accusation that his claims were “wildly exaggerated and not true”, Hornery told Malaysiakini in an email interview, “(Kapp’s) quotes are direct quotes, he is on the record.”
Hornery said that, even before the blog ran the story, Kapp’s publicist
had been calling fashion journalists and pitching the story to them
days before the SMH went to town with the report though most declined, but Frockwriter did the story and Hornery was very
aware of the significant news value, hence, the reason why he made
contact with Kapp, sent a photographer to capture his image and
published the story in the mainstream media.
He related that Kapp (left) verified contents of the blog and followed up with specifics of Najib’s and Rosmah’s visit and said, “He (Kapp) was as candid as he could be.”Frockwriter, run by fashion journalist Patty Huntington, was the first to reveal Rosmah’s visit to the boutique.
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