Playboy admits attacking his girlfriend in row over an ex

A privately-educated playboy founder, whose photo messaging app ‘Fling’ went bust, attacked his girlfriend right by means of a row over his ex slumbering over at his luxurious Thames aspect condominium.

Marco Nardone, 29, the son of a millionaire wine importer, dragged his girlfriend Toni Allcock by the hair after which kicked her in the abdominal at his £2million flat.

Nardone, who used to be educated at £37,000-a-year Charterhouse school earlier than a diploma in physics at Imperial College London, seemed at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on the present time.

He pleaded guilty to assaulting Omit Allcock on the tranquil Hammersmith flat on December 12 and used to be bailed for sentencing on January 25.

Jonathan Bryan, for the prosecution, informed the court docket Omit Allcock used to be sad at Nardone’s ex-girlfriend staying on the flat whereas she used to be away.

He said the argument later grew to was violent.

Mr Bryan said: ‘It used to be relatively a sustained assault. He grabs her by the neck with each his fingers and she used to be shouting « Depart away me on my own ».

‘He slapped her all over the face and she managed to gather out of the flat’s entrance door into the communal hallway.

‘He locked her out of the flat and she banged on the door, tense to be allowed again in.

‘She tried to press the block’s concierge bell in the hallway, but Mr Nardone averted her doing that by covering the bell with his hand.

‘She made for the preserve and he adopted her and dragged her again towards the flat by her hair.

‘Again she made for the preserve and CCTV reveals Mr Nardone blockading the preserve’s doors from closing and he kicked her in the abdominal and she fell to the ground.’

The magistrates, sitting in a particular home violence court docket, felt the offence used to be so severe a pre-sentence probation myth used to be needed. 

Nardone used to be the chief executive of London-based mostly mostly Fling – a cell phone app which let users ship photos to strangers who would possibly perhaps perhaps perhaps then acknowledge.

On the opposite hand it went bust without making a penny. 

It raised money by means of a venerable Goldman Sachs banker Raffaele Costa, and at its high it claimed to bear 4m users who despatched 50billion messages.

Nardone used to be also handed £1.5m by his father Remo – the owner of Enotria Winecellars – to construct the app which he had dreamed up whereas on a flight.

After a year as a vendor at Credit Suisse following university, Nardone made up our minds to initiating his bear enterprise. He noticed himself as a rival to Evan Spiegel, the US founder of photo-messaging app Snapchat. 

But it by no methodology made any earnings and used to be slammed as a playground for men to harass ladies with nude photos.

Nardone used to be accused of splashing out on holidays to Ibiza and eating in Michelin-starred restaurants as the company went bust. 

He also will likely be claimed to bear at one point hurled a Pret a Manger prosciutto baguette when his eighty one-year-inclined father stepped in to live an argument with an employee, a myth by Industry Insider said.

The app closed closing year and has since collapsed into administration, leaving a mountain of debt.

As properly as traders being now not illustrious of pocket, it owes a lot of creditors £880,997, along with £a hundred and twenty,268 to Twitter, greater than £forty five,000 to Google and £ninety five,000 to the taxman.

Despite that Nardone began a brand recent song company this summer known as Gig FM.

Writing on Facebook he claimed he had created ‘the area’s first ethical Music live streaming app’.