The filmmaker ex-husband of P.E Nation’s co-founder has been cleared of a domestic violence charge laid more than a year after the couple ended their relationship.
Tim Tregoning had been accused of stalking or intimidating Claire Tregoning – who now uses the surname Greaves – with intent to cause harm in November 2023.
The 43-year-old bleached blond, who has ‘Claire’ tattooed on his ribs next to a heart and arrows, was due to face a three-day hearing into that allegation and two other charges this week.
Instead, the intimidation charge was dismissed on January 20 when Tregoning, who faced court wearing a knotted neckerchief, pleaded guilty to the two other offences.
Tregoning was still required to appear in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday when defence lawyer Bryan Wrench said the details of a statement of facts had not yet been agreed.
Mr Wrench said Tregoning would be making an application for the two remaining offences to be dealt with under mental health provisions of the law and dismissed without conviction.
Tregoning’s private life started hitting the headlines in 2016 when his wife launched activewear brand P.E Nation with Pip Edwards in a partnership which made both women multi-millionaires.
Greaves stepped down from her day-to-day role in March last year when P.E Nation issued a statement saying she would be ‘pursuing other creative endeavours’.
Tim Tregoning, the filmmaker ex-husband of P.E Nation’s co-founder Claire Tregoning, has been cleared of a domestic violence charge laid more than a year after the couple ended their relationship. He is pictured outside Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday
Tim Tregoning’s private life started hitting the headlines in 2016 when his wife launched activewear brand P.E Nation with Pip Edwards in a partnership which made both women multi-millionaires. Claire Tregoning – now Greaves – (left) is pictured with Edwards
The label’s co-founders were then hit by rumours of a falling-out, with Edwards wiping all traces of Greaves from P.E Nation’s social media.
Edwards took over as the sole creative director and gave P.E Nation an overhaul and relaunch, but in August announced she too was taking a ‘step back’ from the brand.
The following month Edwards returned to streetwear label Ksubi, where she first made her name in the 1990s, as creative director.
While neither woman has revealed the reason why they went their separate ways, Edwards said in June last year that Greaves was ‘the product one’ in their business partnership.
‘She was an amazing designer and I was more the marketing side of things,’ Edwards told the Kyle and Jacki O Show.
Edwards went on to say she had fond memories of working with her former partner and praised Greaves for being an ‘amazing designer’.
Tregoning and Greaves quietly ended their 11-year marriage in mid-2022 and sold their five-bedroom Avalon mansion for $6.4million in February 2023.
Greaves described their parting as ‘amicable’ when she confirmed the split to Sydney Morning Herald gossip columnist Andrew Hornery in January that year.
Tregoning, who has ‘Claire’ tattooed on his ribs next to a heart and arrows, was due to face a three-day hearing into three allegations including one that he intimidated his ex-wife
Tregoning and Greaves (above) quietly ended their 11-year marriage in mid-2022 and sold their five-bedroom Avalon mansion for $6.4million in February 2023
‘It is very amicable, we still love each other, we are co-parenting and he remains a great friend,’ she said.
‘Things change and that’s just what happened for us, but we are getting through that with a lot of respect and support for each other.’
Tregoning had pleaded guilty in November 2022 to possessing a prohibited drug after police caught him with almost a gram of cocaine at Bondi Beach.
Greaves wrote him a glowing reference which was tendered in Waverley Local Court where a magistrate heard Tregoning bought the drugs while he was in a post-separation state of ‘unravelling’.
The court also heard Tregoning had undergone sessions with psychologists and psychiatrists to help with his depression and a diagnosis of ADHD which caused him to act impulsively.
Tregoning is a cinematographer who has been involved with a range of high-profile productions including a Netflix series.
He was involved in making the film Snow White and the Huntsman starring Chris Hemsworth, as well as television series Puberty Blues and commercials for Qantas, NRMA and Audi.
Earlier this month Ms Greaves was spotted cosying up to renowned Sydney cocktail maker and bar tsar Matt Whiley at Avalon Beach.
Whiley is the creator of boutique gin company Wolf’s Nose and has helped found seven award-winning bars in London Sydney.
He is also mates with Edwards’s latest boyfriend Joshua Clapp, the owner of hospitality-focused construction and design firm Steel and Stitch.
Tregoning is still the subject of an interim apprehended violence order taken out by police in November 2023 to protect Greaves.
The father-of-two’s bail conditions include that he not go within 100m of where Greaves lives or works and that he stay at an address on the Northern Beaches.
He cannot contact Greaves except through a lawyer or upon agreement in writing if the contact relates to their children.
Tregoning will return to court in April for a mental health hearing.
