AAP reports Holly Valance has been ordered to pay out to her ex-manager, Scott Michaelson, who she sacked before she became famous. The judge said that she had shown a ‘calculated disregard’ for Scott, who discovered her when she was 15, so she now has to dish out $250,000.

Holly Valance offered her former manager less than $2000 in damages after breaching their contract, a court has heard. The singer, 20, was sued in the NSW Supreme Court by former manager Scott Michaelson after she ditched him 15 months early. Justice Clifford Einstein found last month Mr Michaelson was entitled to damages.

The Sun reports Australian singer Holly Valance has discovered she lives above a brothel – and has been forced to call in police to deal with rowdy late night disturbances. “The house always smells of laundry powder because they wash the sheets downstairs,” she explained. “I haven’t been there long but I’ve already called the police a few times when certain people on the street bash each other on the doorstep.” Despite her fame, Holly says she lives in a grotty, run-down part of London and doesn’t feel safe when at home alone.