Johnny de Mol has encountered the teasing spirit of his billionaire family in Laren: Mark Koster. He found him at the George LA restaurant, together with an archenemy of his father John de Mol.
Mark Koster has played a key role in the publicity hell that Johnny de Mol found himself in in recent years. Two years ago, he devoted a chapter in his Mol biography to the alleged abuse of Johnny’s ex Shima Kaes. To show that his information was correct, he provided ‘proof’ of the abuse to some media.
Mark’s attack on Johnny
Mark’s book caused a huge increase in distrust of Johnny, especially when the reporter brought up in the media about bruising and a ruptured lip. In his book, Mark wrote down the now well-known telephone conversation in which Johnny states that he has been ‘very heavy-handed’ with Shima.
Johnny’s name has since been cleared: Shima’s tax return has been dropped. She is portrayed by the Public Prosecution Service as an unreliable woman. It is also a slap in the face for Mark, who is accused by camp De Mol that he allowed himself to be strained too much for Shima and her legal advisers.
Gentlemen meet
Mark now reveals in a column for villa media that he met Johnny six months ago in Laren. “First, Willeke Alberti passed. Then came two cute boys, tripping after Grandma.”
And then a man came up ‘with two jackets in his hand’. “He stopped at my table. It was Johnny de Mol. We looked at each other. In George, a bistro in Laren.”
‘Because of you!’
What made it all the more painful? Mark sat there chatting with Patrick Scholtze, one of the greatest enemies of Johnny’s father John de Mol. He was fired as John’s right-hand man years ago. “Johnny de Mol smiled sarcastically at us. “Well, that’s a nice couple together,” he said.
Johnny then launched into a diatribe “about the injustice done to him by the press,” according to Mark. “Johnny was angry because in the 608-page family epic I had devoted eight pages to an explosive relationship with his ex Shima Kaes. (…) ‘It’s all because of you’, said Johnny de Mol.”
“What are you doing?”
In the end Johnny walked away quite calmly. “De Mol calmed down a bit. He accepted a hand and walked away grumbling. Should I have written nothing and ignored the black period?”
That meeting made Mark think a bit. “There was a voice that said, ‘What are you doing, you idiot? Do you have to bring everything? Does everything always have to be broken? (…) Scholze had watched the scene amused in front of me. He laughed. ‘Now you have a bucket of material again.’”
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