<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Socialite Brynne Edelsten has dodged questions after being charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/drugs" rel="" target="" title="methamphetamine"><span>methamphetamine</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 42-year-old briefly faced </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/melbourne" rel="" target="" title="Melbourne"><span>Melbourne</span></a><span> Magistrates </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/courts" rel="" target="" title="Court"><span>Court</span></a><span> on Wednesday for a bail variation hearing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The former wife of late businessman Geoffrey Edelsten is accused of trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine and possessing other drugs, including ketamine, 1.4-Butanediol and vials of steroids.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-tax-dodgers-banned-leaving-country-ato/f2111b7d-48f5-497a-bae8-3abb35e01bbd" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>ATO vow to ban tax dodgers from leaving Australia</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/police" rel="" target="" title="Police"><span>Police</span></a><span> charged Edelsten with the nine offences on December 30 after searching her Fitzroy home in Melbourne's inner north.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was released on bail, but the case returned to court on Wednesday so her mother, Mariel Gordon, could provide a $5000 surety.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edelsten's other bail conditions included reporting to the police station three times a week and surrendering her passport so she could not </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/travel" rel="" target="" title="travel"><span>travel</span></a><span> overseas.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/socialite-brynne-edelsten-charged-with-drug-trafficking/9adf95e9-83dc-4a3c-b25c-a995ad769fbd" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edelsten, flanked by her mother and lawyer, did not respond to reporters' questions as she left the Melbourne court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She is due to return for a committal mention hearing in April.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/cataract-crash-six-people-rushed-to-hospital-after-crash-between-truck-and-multiple-cars-nsw/35d6dce7-315c-42a4-aa97-c22a41d1b894" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Six people rushed to hospital after crash between truck and multiple cars</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 42-year-old </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/usa" rel="" target="" title="United States"><span>United States</span></a><span>-born socialite was married to Geoffrey Edelsten between 2009 and 2014, when she was 40 years his junior.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edelsten, who died in 2021 aged 78, was a former GP and entrepreneur who was known for saving the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sydney" rel="" target="" title="Sydney"><span>Sydney</span></a><span> Swans from </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/afl" rel="" target="" title="AFL"><span>AFL</span></a><span> extinction in the 1980s.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The controversial figure also spent time in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/jail" rel="" target="" title="jail"><span>jail</span></a><span> in 1990 after soliciting a hit man to </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/assault" rel="" target="" title="assault"><span>assault</span></a><span> a former patient, and he was chased down by more than 40 creditors in 2016.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS 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