EXCLUSIVE Candyman doesn't look like this anymore! Playboy tobacco tycoon's shock new life and appearance revealed after he went 'missing'

Daily Mail​

09-07-2025

Travers 'Candyman' Beynon has re-emerged after vanishing off social media amid a multimillion-dollar legal stoush.
The notorious Gold Coast 'tobacco tycoon' had deleted his Instagram account, which used to entice over a million followers to fawn over his luxe parties and high-end living.
Amid his social media absence, Travers was spotted at a park on the Gold Coast on Wednesday looking almost unrecognisable.
Followers are used to seeing Travers shirtless and surrounded by a bevy of bikini-clad beauties at his lavish Candy Shop Mansion.
But it appears he has now traded in his playboy lifestyle for that of a family man.
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The notorious Gold Coast 'tobacco tycoon' recently deleted his Instagram account, which used to entice over a million followers to fawn over posts of luxe parties and high-end living
The 53-year-old was seen in the company of wife Taesha and two of his five children.
Travers shares Velicia, 12, Serafina, 11, and Santiago, one, with Taesha, and has two other children – Valentino, 24, and Luciana, 22 – from his previous marriage to Ninibeth Leal.
He appeared very much in doting dad mode as he accompanied his brood to a local swim school.
Travers cut quite the dapper figure in a light grey three-piece suit.
He also wore a crisp white shirt and a burgundy tie with a silver clip, bringing the look together with a white pocket square.
Travers finished his ensemble with a pair of black patent leather shoes and black sunglasses.
The father of five, who once sported a thick head of brunette locks, appears to have started thinning.
His wife Taesha, meanwhile, cut a much more casual figure in a black hooded sweatshirt and a pair of form-fitting black leggings.
She finished her look with a pair of hot pink slides and appeared preoccupied with setting up a pram for her youngest while Travers looked on.
While Travers didn't appear to be that helpful as his wife juggled the load, he looked chuffed to be in family company, beaming as he tenderly reached out to stroke the little one's head.
The sighting comes after Daily Mail Australia revealed that Travers had split from his 'main' polyamorous girlfriend Nisha Downes.
Nisha confirmed that she has traded in her old life of wild parties, designer shopping sprees and sex for a more conventional relationship and way of living.
'I was 19 when I moved in [to his 'Candy Shop Mansion'] and when I turned 27 I wondered if [the relationship] was what I really wanted,' she admitted.
'I started thinking about my life and how long did I really want to do this for. Stuff like, "if we did have kids would I be comfortable in that dynamic, forever?"'
This December marks three years since she farewelled the gaudy home and opulent estate in Helensvale for 'a new life'.
'Nothing hectic happened… in the end,' she said. 'I just felt being with one person would be a bit more intimate.'
Still living on the Gold Coast, Nisha has traded in her string bikini for corporate attire - working as a development manager in the construction industry.
Aside from his social media absence, it's apparently a similar story for the Beynon family tobacco empire, with the main FreeChoice Tobacco site also currently offline.
While its franchise stores are still operating, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported that FreeChoice vacated its Gold Coast head office in February, with the space, owned by one of Beynon's companies, now leased to a new business.
The publication also reported in June that Travers was being sued by his stepfather Trevor in an explosive multimillion-dollar legal stoush.
Trevor Beynon, 79, is the founder of the Free Choice tobacco store empire, and was married to Travers' mother, Sandra, when the couple founded the cigarette chain.
Now, according to court documents, Trevor is alleging that Travers used 'sham' documents in an effort to gain more control over the group's assets - which is at odds with what Trevor intended in his will.
Trevor ceased his role as director of two 'key' Free Choice companies in March, and court documents indicate he is now alleging that he was removed from the position against his will.
It was also claimed that two years after Sandra Beynon died in 2015, Travers enlisted lawyer Matthew Burgess to draw up documents preventing siblings from challenging Travers to a larger cut of the estate.
They allege in the documents that they, along with accountant Richard Hoult, created estate planning documents which stated Trevor would gift $55 million to one of Travers' companies - Free Choice Master Holdings - and then loan it back.
A separate deed also purported to secure the loan against Trevor's assets, according to the court documents.
According to court filings, it allegedly came to a head in January this year, after Trevor and Travers had a disagreement over the management of Free Choice, which resulted in Travers enforcing the interest repayments on the alleged $55million loan.
This comes amid what appears to be a period of upheaval for Travers, with the playboy recently having another crack at offloading his Candy Shop mansion.
Travers first listed the 14-bedroom canal-side property back in 2023 and, at one stage, it had an eye-watering $25 million price tag attached.
The Gold Coast Bulletin reported in May that Travers had enlisted another agent to give the property the push it needs to get it over the line.
He had engaged the services of agents Ivy Wu and Isaac Kim from Ivy Realty to run an expression of interest campaign for the lavish property.
Travers originally purchased the home in 2010.
He later snapped up neighbouring land, effectively tripling the footprint of the compound.
The property sits on a substantial 1.4 acres with 175m of private water frontage.
The house itself is set across an expansive 2,230 square-metre floorplan and boasts mosaic murals and hand-painted frescos.