Married At First Sight (MAFS) star Martha Kalifatidis has appeared in court after failing to pay 44 parking fines, 10 speeding fines, and a $14,000 toll bill accumulated between 2012 and 2019.
According to The Herald Sun, Martha told the court she was not responsible for most of them, blaming her former long-term boyfriend, Arthur Manidis.
Kalifatidis told Melbourne’s Online Magistrates Court that Manidis regularly used her car, promising to handle the fines but never did. After they split in 2016 and she moved to Sydney, she left him with the vehicle but admitted, “Hindsight is a beautiful thing.”
She explained, “He always promised, like, he’s going to pay them… he’s going to go on a payment plan. But he spiralled and spiralled and it got worse and worse.”
She acknowledged that some fines were hers, including parking tickets near her workplace and a 2019 speeding fine in a hire car, admitting, “I can’t just completely say I didn’t do any of this.”
Magistrate Michelle Mykytowycz ultimately wiped most of the fines, ordering Kalifatidis to pay only $2000. When asked if she could meet the payment deadline, she replied, “Yes, ma’am, I can pay that.”
Kalifatidis, now a successful influencer, remains with her MAFS partner Michael Brunelli. The couple, engaged since 2021, returned to Melbourne in 2022 and live with her parents while raising their two-year-old son.
Source: The Herald Sun
