In her “final’’ television interview before moving from Perth to Spain to pursue her love of flamenco dancing, the millionaire socialite told A Current Affair ’s Ray Martin, “Why would you kill the goose who laid the golden egg? I hope you bury me upside down so the world can kiss my sweet, little arse,” she said.When asked how she would react if you ran into her estranged step daughter Gina Rinehart, Mrs Porteous said she would, “go another different way. "[I would] go another different way," she said when asked what she would do if the pair were in the same room.Jenna Clarke is fashion and lifestyle writer/editor with Fairfax Media.Rose Porteous confirms she didn't kill Lang Hancock in colourful 'final' interviewRose Porteous has given her "last" interview to Ray Martin.Peta Sergeant as Rose Porteous, and Sam Neil as Gina Rinehart's father Lang Hancock in she asked a blushing Martin. "For me the kill is boring.
The moment that Joanna Lacson burst on to the scene as the wild child of flamboyant socialite Rose Porteous, the public began watching in fascination.In one of her earliest public appearances in the 1990s she arrived at court on the arm of Northbridge identity John Kizon to face charges she had deprived the liberty of a former lover.Scroll down to read Rose Porteous' poem on her feelings as she studied for her English degree in 1970.She had already fallen out with her mother after a 1992 TV interview in which she said her mother deserved to be called a "mail-order bride" and a "gold digger".The publicity continued until 1995, when she spoke to the media following a shooting at her mother's Gone With The Wind-style mansion in Mosman Park.Now known as Mrs Lacson-Fox, the mother of two lives the quiet life in the western suburbs and works at a family business in industrial Malaga.Breaking a six-year public silence, Mrs Lacson-Fox spoke to The Weekend West to pay her mother her dues as Mrs Porteous prepares for another stressful chapter in her life - a divorce from western suburbs realtor Willie Porteous after two decades of marriage.Mrs Lacson-Fox lives a few streets from her mother in Nedlands, and relations between the pair are close enough for them to see each other every day.She said her party days were long gone and she was content working at her family business and looking after her two children, Alexander, 3, and Eva Annastasia Rose, 1, who was named after her mother.
"For me, the kill is boring. At 67, Ms Porteous loves nothing more than to flamenco. I'm not the person you can just take to dinner and have a hamburger as they say," she said.
"How nice to be a bitch.
"Why would you kill the goose that lays the golden egg and is so nice to you?" "I have nothing to live for," she wailed.
"If anyone said to my face, 'You're a bitch', I would say 'Thank you'. The energy I get is not positive.”Keen to put the record straight, Mrs Porteous was not amused by the recent miniseries On her much-criticised sense of style, she told Martin: “I like Dior and YSL. When she met Mr Hancock in 1983, Ms Porteous admits it wasn't love at first sight. Last year, Ms Porteous was portrayed by Malaysian-Australian actress Peta Sergeant on the Nine Network miniseries It's the chase that's exciting." This interview was a mere few weeks before the infamous 'birthday cake interview' which ultimately contributed to Hewsons election failure. The accusations had been thrown at Mrs Porteous since 1985, when she married mining magnate Lang Hancock who was 39 years her senior.The pair met when she was employed as his housekeeper, and the marriage caused a rift between Mr Hancock and his daughter Gina Rinehart.Ms Rinehart later staged a very public legal battle with Mrs Hancock Porteous over the nature of his 1992 death and the division of his estate. Six months after his death, Porteous went on to marry Hancock's former real estate broker Willie Porteous. "Why would you kill the goose who laid the golden egg?"
To improve your experience Rose Porteous has given what she claims will be her final interview, saying she has no fear of being remembered as a "bitch" and wants to be buried upside down "so the world can kiss my sweet little a---". "She is honestly a very good writer, she's an amazing … and very gifted writer," Mrs Lacson-Fox said. Despite being married three times, separating from third husband William Porteous in 2012, she is proud of her reputation as a tough woman.
1988. It’s the chase that’s exciting and you’ve got to chase me.“They think I was so busy fooling around. Rose is carving out a beauty career at her home salon. These days, she lives in a clutter of self-portraits, nudes and dogs - but don't dare call them that, they're either "poochies" or "babies" to her. With claiming that this would be her final interview — and requesting it be with Ray Martin — Ms Porteous says she has no qualms about being remembered as a bitch.
Ms Porteous said. "That was decades ago," she said of her party days. During the flirtatious interview with Martin, she also spoke of her displeasure with the controversial Nine series "That was rubbish.
She once lived in Perth's most opulent mansion, Prix d'Amour, a 16-room love-nest built with her husband Lang Hancock for an estimated $7 million in 1990.