Rock and dole: Elliott sells off designer gear to make ends meet

KARLA ELLIOTT, the former glamour model and rock star wife now living on social welfare, sold her designer clothes collection in a car boot sale to try to make ends meet.

The 46-year-old divorcee, who was married to Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott, has been ordered by the Employment Appeals Tribunal to come up with unpaid wages for an employee of her failed beauty salon.

But in weekend newspaper interviews, the mother of one revealed she had nothing left from her one-time luxury lifestyle when she jetted around the world in designer outfits, drove a Ferrari and hosted parties at her exclusive Killiney home that everybody who was anybody wanted to attend. “I’m on Lone Parents allowance,” she said. “It’s not much. It certainly helps. I’m very grateful for anything. I’ve never had to ask for help ever in my life.”