When private investigators staked out the Castle Cove home of the glamorous music pirate Nikki Hemming, they often saw a man sitting outside in the morning. He was thought to be Hemming’s partner Richard Kilmer-Barber but all they really knew about the mystery man was that he liked to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes.
He didn’t always accompany Hemming on her international business trips. "He could have been making a fortune sitting at a computer but no one says anything about him," an investigator says.
This is just one of the many mysteries surrounding Hemming’s world, where a fortune appears to have been made out of the thin air of cyberspace.
Glance quickly at the upmarket Middle Harbour home and that world appears solid. It’s a symbol of the wealth and privilege Hemming enjoyed – as well as the long country walks, working out in her home gym and Friday night dinner parties.
She bought the four-bedroom house in 2003 with Kilmer-Barber for $1.7million. As the chief executive officer of Sharman Networks she wore power suits and drove a Porsche Boxter to her Cremorne office. From there she ran the controversial music sharing site Kazaa, which she bought from Dutch owners in 2002.
When private investigators staked out the Castle Cove home of the glamorous music pirate Nikki Hemming, they often saw a man sitting outside in the morning. He was thought to be Hemming’s partner Richard Kilmer-Barber but all they really knew about the mystery man was that he liked to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes.
He didn’t always accompany Hemming on her international business trips. "He could have been making a fortune sitting at a computer but no one says anything about him," an investigator says.
This is just one of the many mysteries surrounding Hemming’s world, where a fortune appears to have been made out of the thin air of cyberspace.
Glance quickly at the upmarket Middle Harbour home and that world appears solid. It’s a symbol of the wealth and privilege Hemming enjoyed – as well as the long country walks, working out in her home gym and Friday night dinner parties.
She bought the four-bedroom house in 2003 with Kilmer-Barber for $1.7million. As the chief executive officer of Sharman Networks she wore power suits and drove a Porsche Boxter to her Cremorne office. From there she ran the controversial music sharing site Kazaa, which she bought from Dutch owners in 2002.
