He was also fired as Hannah Tamaki’s Vision NZ spokesperson after attacking a broadcaster on social media.įormer National Party president Michelle Boag was also named in the case but the Crown declined to call her as a witness.īoag’s identity was highlighted when Wallace told jurors it was her purported association with Goulter that attracted him to using PR firm Goulter & Associates for the bribe attempt.
Goulter has worked with several political parties, including Labour and the Mana Party and in Parliament with Hone Harawira and The Opportunities Party. They were later granted immunity from prosecution by the Solicitor-General in exchange for their evidence against Wallace. The PR workers were earlier revealed as the politically connected Jevan Goulter and his business partner Allison Edmonds, who both posed as New York talent agents during a meeting at the five-star Palazzo Versace hotel in Queensland. Wallace made his fortune through a variety of business interests, most notably a meat processing plant in Waitoa. He has estimated he and the trust spend about $2m per year on the arts, which saw him knighted for services to the industry in 2011. Wallace is a founding patron or funder of New Zealand Opera, the Auckland Theatre Company, the Royal NZ Ballet, and the ASB Waterfront Theatre - home to the Auckland Theatre Company. The Wallace Arts Centre at the Pah Homestead, owned by Auckland Council, is also used as a public art gallery housing the trust’s collection. It has loaned many works for public viewing, including to Government House, the Supreme Court, universities, Auckland’s exclusive The Northern Club, and his alma mater King’s College. He began collecting art, now worth about $50m as the James Wallace Arts Trust Collection, in the 1960s. Throughout his life, Wallace has funded some of New Zealand’s most celebrated arts and film ventures, including serving as an executive producer for Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Sir James Wallace, whose art collection is on display at the Pah Homestead.
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