The loyal friend and long-term business partner of David Beckham - sports and entertainment agent Dave Gardner - has been fined for speeding in his £100,000 Range Rover.
'Me and My Shadow': Gardner & Becks
The diminutive Godfather to Brooklyn Beckham and former fiancé of Hollywood actress Liv Tyler was fined £660, with £130 costs, plus a £264 victim surcharge and received three penalty points on his driving licence.
The 49 year-old did not appear at Bromley Magistrates’ Court, which heard he pleaded guilty to exceeding the 40mph limit on November 9, last year on the A40 between the junctions of Long Drive and Welland Gardens, Greenford, west London.
Father-of-three Gardner was approximately eight miles from his home in Ledbury Road, Notting Hill, which was purchased for £6.4m in 2022, when a speed camera snapped him driving at 46mph in his Range Rover SE at 8.26pm.
In correspondence to the court former Manchester United youth player Gardner - who befriended teammate Beckham when they were teenagers - declared a monthly income of £27,000.
After failing to make the grade at Old Trafford despite winning the FA Youth Cup in 1995 Gardner established the Elite Sports Agency with Alex Ferguson’s son Jason before founding his own firm.
Via his glamorous connections with the Beckham he met actress Liv Tyler and the couple enjoyed a relationship between 2014 and March, 2021 and have two children, Sailor Gene Gardner, 11, and Lula Rose Gardner, 9.
He also has a son Gary, following his marriage to socialite Davinia Taylor between 2003 and 2010.
Gardner is currently busily involved in Inter Miami FC and is a co-investor in the Florida club, run by Beckham.
He was not represented in court and did not submit any mitigation.
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