Mystifying alleged crime prices Olympic legend Ian Thorpe a FORTUNE as swimming star is seen speeding to police station

Olympic icon Ian Thorpe has had $150,000 of products taken from his house in an alleged theft he reported to police in Sydney on Thursday.

The five-time gold medal winner attended Paddington police station within the metropolis’s east to report the alleged crime, which he described as an ‘insurance coverage job’, based on radio 2GB.

‘At about 4pm on Thursday, June 5, a 42-year-old man attended Paddington police station to report an alleged theft incident,’ NSW Police mentioned in a press release.

‘Officers hooked up to japanese suburbs have commenced an investigation into the alleged incident. 

‘There isn’t a additional data obtainable right now.’

Thorpe has not commented on the alleged crime on the time of writing. 

Ian Thorpe (pictured) has misplaced $150,000 in an alleged theft he reported to Sydney police on Thursday afternoon

The Olympic legend (pictured at this yr’s Australian Open with ) reportedly described the alleged crime as an ‘insurance coverage job’ 

‘He has had some issues stolen from his home – watches, jewelry, some private objects,’ Thorpe’s supervisor James Erskine mentioned on Friday morning.

‘He known as up his insurers, they mentioned go and make a police report.

‘I don’t know what the worth is, to be sincere.’

Erskine added that no gold medals have been taken within the alleged crime. 

‘We consider he is within the pink to the tune of $150,000,’ 2GB’s Ben Fordham informed listeners.

‘There aren’t any particulars about what’s allegedly occurred to Ian Thorpe.

‘We do not know if he is been robbed on-line or in individual.’ 

Fordham mentioned Erskine was initially unaware of the alleged theft, however Thorpe informed him he noticed the police ‘to speak about an insurance coverage job’ when he contacted his shopper. 

Thorpe (pictured with Jennifer Hawkins) misplaced watches, jewelry and private objects within the alleged crime, his supervisor revealed

Day by day Mail Australia has contacted Thorpe and his administration for remark. 

The information of the alleged theft comes after Thorpe additionally took a monetary hit in October final yr.

He listed his luxurious Sydney house within the upmarket suburb of Woollahra – not removed from the police station he attended on Thursday – for $3.5million after buying the beautiful four-bed, three-bathroom townhouse in December 2017 for $2.75million.

He had beforehand listed it for $3.7million in September 2023, however did not discover a purchaser at that worth and was then confronted with taking a $200,000 hit.

Thorpe did in depth renovation work to the property, which additionally options open-plan dwelling areas, a surprising re-modelled terrace and trendy sliding doorways.

Chatting with The Sydney Morning Herald in 2023, letting agent Courtney Wong mentioned the house is the ‘finest one’ within the space, located away from the road.

‘It is fully non-public and secluded,’ he added.

The latest alleged theft is not the primary time Thorpe has been a sufferer of crime.

In 2005 his Audi TT coupé was damaged into in Glebe in Sydney’s inside west, with the thieves stealing a watch.

‘The watch that is lacking has nice sentimental worth to me and I might actually appreciated it being returned,’ Thorpe mentioned on the time.

The Omega timepiece featured the Olympic brand and was given to Thorpe on the 2004 Athens Video games.   

Thorpe – who starred on Channel 9’s swimming commentary group for the Paris Olympics final yr – went public with a devastating admission final September.

He revealed that an irregular consequence to a drug check plunged him right into a melancholy so deep he thought of taking his personal life.

Pictured: Thorpe’s townhouse within the glitzy Sydney suburb of Woollahra, not removed from the police station he attended, which he took a $200,000 hit on when he listed it on the market in 2024

Thorpe is pictured celebrating one in every of his three gold medals on the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

When the consequence was revealed by a French newspaper, Thorpe obtained medical proof that cleared his identify, and sued the publication for reporting that his pattern had elevated ranges of testosterone and luteinising hormone.

On the time the revelation was so devastating he didn’t wish to depart his home, feeling that psychological well being points must be resolved personally, and considering trying his personal life and staging it as an accident.

‘An irregular check is not unusual. They occur. So firstly, nobody ought to know that data to start with,’ Thorpe mentioned.

‘An irregular check means nothing. An irregular check will get thrown out.’

It was one in every of many pressures Thorpe skilled throughout his sporting profession.

At 14, Thorpe did not suppose he deserved to compete within the World Championships, questioned if successful the identical match at 15 was a ‘fluke’, and felt mounting stress at 17 to win gold on the Sydney Olympics.

‘Individuals have been assuming a consequence that hadn’t occurred but. I might be with my mom on the store, and folks would say, “We have tickets to the Olympics, we won’t wait to see you win your first gold medal”,’ he mentioned.

‘I could not escape that a part of it. Then it began being overestimated increasingly more and extra. I used to be surrounded by it.’