Former New Zealand Entertainer of the Year and Australian Queen of Pop Allison Durbin has been jailed for 12 months for drug trafficking.
Durbin, now known by her married name Allison Giles, was handed a 24-month jail term yesterday but half of the sentence was suspended.
Giles'career peaked in the 1960s and 70s when she was voted Queen of Pop for four years, recorded an album with John Farnham and had several hit songs. Her New Zealand career peaked with the Entertainer of the Year title in 1969.
The mother of two, originally from Auckland, had pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court to trafficking a drug of dependence, cultivating a narcotic plant and theft of electricity. The court heard Giles, 57, had a hydroponic set-up at a house in West Footscray and supplied cannabis to a drug dealer.
