After more than a decade of highly publicised legal battles, Julian Assange is a free man . The WikiLeaks founder pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information, with the US judge accepting time served in London’s Belmarsh Prison as his sentence. On Wednesday evening a charter flight carrying Assange arrived in Canberra, marking his return to Australia and the beginning of his newfound freedom.
The odd couple. Pamela Anderson and Julian Assange. Meanwhile, half a world away, on a sprawling six-acre property on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia, another person will likely be toasting the news: Pamela Anderson .
The friendship between the former Baywatch actor and the world’s most controversial whistleblower has long been a source of curious fascination. Anderson was one of the first high-profile celebrities to rally around Assange, visiting the Australian regularly over the last decade while consistently lobbying for his release. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the odd coupling of Anderson and Assange attracted global headlines and some criticism, but now that Assange is a free man, Anderson’s efforts represent a curious addition to her career as a public figure.
Meat-free meeting After an arrest warrant was issued by Westminster Magistrates’ Court in June 2012, Assange moved into the Ecuadorian embassy in London until his arrest in 2019. According to Anderson’s 2023 memoir Love, Pamela , the.
