

A source says she was drawn back in by his apologies. Still, Mortimer continued to date Fanjul.

She made several references to how powerful the family is” and his “family’s status in Palm Beach.” It also read that Mortimer “made it clear she does not want to prosecute for the battery. According to that report, Mortimer was trying to intervene in a fight between her boyfriend and his younger brother, Oliver “Reddy” Fanjul, when she was “struck in the eye by Reddy.” Nico then “defended his brother,” and “the argument escalated to the point he covered her mouth and nose,” the report says. On New Year’s Day, she came clean in a phone conversation with police. Mortimer shown with a black eye after an altercation with Fanjul and his brother Oliver. She was issued a written warning for a trespass. The police report says she “appeared intoxicated” and her speech was slurred. Originally, Mortimer told officers that she tripped and fell.ĭays later, on New Year’s Eve, Fanjul called the police because of an “unwanted guest.” The cops arrived to find Mortimer locked in a bedroom at Fanjul’s home declaring she was fearful of him and wanted to prosecute her sometime lover. She received three staples in the back of her head. We also saw red and bruised markings on her forearms, biceps and elbows,” wrote the officer after visiting Mortimer, who had her mother, Dale Mercer, by her side, at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach. The left side of her face next to her eye was very swollen with yellow-and-green bruising.

“We saw that Tinsley had a laceration on the back of her head that was still bleeding. Sources say the ordeal has been a living hell for Mortimer, who continued to let Fanjul back into her life, hoping he would change and fearful of the havoc his family might wreak should she go public with claims of abuse.Īccording to one police report, Mortimer was hospitalized “due to a possible battery” on Christmas Day 2013. Since December 2013, there has been one arrest, four police reports and a written warning from the Palm Beach Police Department - all of which document physical abuse and trespassing. Numerous people interviewed for this story called the duo’s dating life “unhealthy.” But Fanjul kept the relationship clandestine and mainly confined to after-hours hookups. He and Mortimer started seeing each other in December 2012.
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According to a source, Fanjul has been studying for his insurance license exam for the last three years. His billionaire family owns the right land, belongs to the right clubs - like the famously snobbish Bath and Tennis Club in Florida - and is a fixture on the party pages of The Shiny Sheet, the nickname for the Palm Beach Daily News. What went so wrong?įor one thing, her 10-years-junior boyfriend, Fanjul. Now the blond beauty, who went from diamond cuffs to handcuffs in less than a decade, has morphed into a cautionary tale for Pretty Young Things. Tinsley Mortimer’s mug shot after being arrested for trespassing at the home of her ex-boyfriend Nico Fanjul on April 9. The socialite - who in 2008 launched her very own shade of Dior lipstick, Tinsley Pink - was booked into the Palm Beach County jail, charged with trespassing, and spent nearly three hours in the slammer. When authorities arrived, Mortimer was “crying and screaming irrationally,” saying her purse was inside. Last Saturday, the 40-year-old Mortimer was arrested for trespassing at the Palm Beach, Fla., residence of her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Alexander “Nico” Fanjul, 30, the son of sugar baron Alexander Fanjul.Īccording to the police report, Fanjul called cops when Mortimer showed up uninvited - while Fanjul’s new girlfriend was there.

Now she’s living a secret, abusive nightmare in Florida.
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Ten years ago, Tinsley Mortimer was the most photographed socialite in New York City - complete with her own reality TV show, signature lipstick shade and handbag line.
