Wayne Cooper has found love again, months after his court victory against his ex-wife Sarah Marsh.
The Sydney-based fashion designer recently proposed to his new girlfriend Elizabeth Adams after eight months of dating, with a wedding day imminent.
‘I knew she was the one very early on. We both lived in Tamarama, however had never met each other,’ the British-born fashion icon told the Herald Sun this weekend.
‘We met at a lunch and basically we have not ever left each other’s side since that day.’
Cooper referred to glamours Elizabeth as the ‘love of his life’, and confirmed that he popped the question by hiding a ring in a bowl of caviar over dinner at the trendy beachside restaurant Bondi Icebergs.
The pair are planning to wed at Cooper’s 10-acre botanical gardens in Byron Bay, he confirmed.
It comes after Cooper was found not guilty of two counts of domestic violence towards his estranged wife Marsh.
Cooper, who has two children with one-time model Marsh, was arrested at his home in Myocum near Byron Bay, in the Northern Rivers Region in NSW, on May 31.
He was charged with two counts of domestic violence-related common assault and had an interim apprehended violence order taken out against him.
In August, Magistrate Emma Manea found Cooper not guilty in a hearing at Waverley Local Court, in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs.
The magistrate said she doubted Marsh’s reliability and version of events when the one-time model claimed he allegedly assaulted her twice in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
The charges came after Cooper furiously denied he and Marsh had ended their 25-year relationship back in May 2021.
Cooper rose to notoriety in the 90s with fashion labels Brave, Wayne Cooper and Wayne.
His clothes were once sold at two boutiques in Melbourne and are now available at Myer department stores.
Cooper’s Australian Fashion Week shows have featured models including Linda Evangelista, Eva Herzigova and Sarah O’Hare (now Murdoch) and he was a regular guest on the reality TV series Australia’s Next Top Model.
Cooper and Marsh’s relationship has come before a court before.
Cooper was placed on a two-year good behaviour bond in December 2008 after pleading guilty to assaulting Marsh just days after she had cancer surgery.
