But her style and passion for high-end labels and brands – including wearing more than $20,000 worth of jewelery – belied her humble beginnings growing up in a fibro house in western Sydney with her Lebanese immigrant family.
The 48-year-old, who worked for car hire company Thrifty in Caringbah and then Revesby before quitting her job a year ago, drove a black Mercedes and a white Range Rover.
She wore tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of Chanel and Van Cleef and Arpels jewelry and carried a Chanel bag, which a celebrity designer expert confirmed to Daily Mail Australia was “probably real”.
Ms Fadlallah was married to two different known Sydney gangsters before becoming engaged to legal businessman, Adel Dayoub.
At the restaurant run by his sons, Taleb and Ali, she was often pictured decked out in bright clothes and jewelry.
Ms Fadlallah still visited the shabby green house where her mother stood on the veranda smoking in the days after her daughter’s brutal murder, but she and her privately educated son had moved into a sleek, modern duplex with high-end fittings.
Last Saturday night outside this double compound Ms Fadlala was mercilessly executed along with her hairdresser Amneh ‘Amy’ al-Hazouri when a gunman fired 15 rounds at them from a semi-automatic weapon.
Lametta Fadlallah, with fiance Adel Dayoub wearing a Ralph Lauren shirt, is pictured wearing a Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra ‘four-leaf clover’ necklace in malachite and gold with matching earrings worth an estimated $20,000
Ms Fadlallah (right) wears Chanel Strass CC gold earrings worth around $950 for a night out in Massaya to hear Lebanese superstar singer Wafeek Habib seven weeks before her death on May 22
Four men, including the killer who executed Ms Fadlallah with a semi-automatic weapon, fled the scene in cars which were later found burnt out, including this vehicle (above) found on a Revesby road
The shabby fiber home (above) where Lametta Fadlallah moved into Revesby in western Sydney after her family immigrated from Lebanon is still occupied by her mother Nadia.
In the front of the silver four-wheel-drive Toyota, a 16-year-old Tik Tok influencer was sitting next to her 20-year-old boyfriend who was behind the wheel and pulling into Ms Fadlallah’s path when they were ambushed.
Reports say four men approached the vehicle and told the teenager to close her window before pushing her head out of the way as an assassin shot Ms Fadlala and Ms Hazuri in the back seat.
The men fled in cars which were later found burnt out in nearby locations.
A well-groomed Ms Fadlallah appears in photos posted on July 25 with her fiance, music promoter Adel Dayoub, among several images on Massaya’s Facebook page of a big event.
Lametta Fadlallah was flawlessly made up and wearing a pink Alice McCall Little Journey Blazer dress, her hair perfectly coiffed, with a Chanel bag believed to be in Massaya on July 25.
Ms Fadlallah’s mother Nadia (above) at the old fibro house in Revesby, which she left behind to move to a posh duplex in nearby Panania where she was executed outside the front last weekend
Lamettas Fadlallah’s ex-mother-in-law Zam Zam Derbas mother of ex-gangster Shadi Derbas at home on Telopea Street with Lametta’s son Abraham Derbas visiting after the murders
She is impeccably dressed and made up, wearing a pink Alice McCall Little Journey Blazer dress, her hair neatly coiffed, with neatly arched eyebrows and thick false eyelashes or eyelash extensions.
On March 6 this year, she was photographed at the venue with Mr. Dayoub, who is wearing a white Ralph Lauren shirt, with Ms. Fadlallah wearing a white shirt and green malachite and gold Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra “four-leaf clover” necklace with matching earrings.
The Alhambra range is advertised by Van Cleef & Arpels to represent “a timeless symbol of luck” for its wearers.
If the jewels were genuine, as they are believed to be, they would be worth around $20,000.
On May 22, when Lebanese superstar singer Wafeek Habib performed at Massaya, Ms. Fadlallah wore $950 gold Chanel Strass CC earrings as she was photographed next to a blonde friend.
The woman pictured with Ms Fadlallah in the photo is believed to be the same woman seen last week at the old fibro home in Revesby where she grew up, where her mother Nadia, sister Sandra, brother Charlie and her sister-in-law was mourned.
The blonde woman later visited another of Ms Fadlala’s relatives and the Lebanese Maronite church where the murdered woman will be buried next week.
Mrs Fadlallah wore a cross around her neck but is not believed to have been a regular at the Christian masses her mother faithfully attended.
The black Mercedes parked in the driveway of the posh duplex she rented for $680 a week about five years ago is believed to be a 2016 model worth about $30,000 and
Lametta Fadlallah was married to ex-gangster and Telopea Street gang leader Shadi Derbas and then to so-called 200kg gangster Helal Safi (above) with whom she had a son now 16 years old.
Lametta Fadlallah always looked stylish when photographed in Massaya (above left with fiance Adel Dayoub) and her hair was styled by Amy Hazouri (above right) who was tragically caught on set
She was previously married to former gangster Shadi Derbas, who led the notorious Telopea Street gang, and they have a son who is now an adult.
Ms Fadlallah’s former mother-in-law Zam Zam Derbas still lives on the street where a member of the Shadi gang killed innocent Korean schoolboy Edward Lee in a year of bloody violence that swept south-west Sydney.
The 1998 death of 14-year-old Lee, who was stabbed while attending a birthday party a few doors down from Telopea Street gang member Mustapha Dib, sparked a police crackdown that fueled even more gang violence.
That same year, members of the Telopea Street gang were involved in their own double shooting when Shadi Derbas and other gang members were present while notorious gangster Michael Kanaan shot two men outside the Five Dock Hotel.
Shadi Derbas was convicted of obstructing investigations into the Five Dock murders of Adam Wright and Michael Hurle.
Lametta’s mother Nadia (right), sister-in-law (centre) and sister Sandra (left) will lay her to rest next week at a Lebanese Christian Maronite ceremony in western Sydney
Lametta’s fiance’s sons, Taleb and Ali Dayoub (above), said they only got to know her socially in the last year, as their father brought her to their restaurant on nights out
Members of the Telopea Street gang later fired at the Lakemba Police Station and were allegedly involved in a drive-by shooting.
The gang folded in 2000, in the wake of Shadi Derbas’ conviction, and he is understood to have long since turned his back on a life of crime and has been out of touch with Ms Fadlallah for many years.
Ms. Fadlallah then married the 200kg so-called gangster, Helal Safi, with whom she had a son.
But she is believed to have broken up with him shortly before he was found dead of a heart attack in a flat in Peddle Hill last January, just weeks after being released from prison for guns and drugs.
About five years ago, Ms. Fadlallah began renting a stylish $680-a-week three-bedroom maisonette in Panania, a three-minute drive from her family’s old fiber home.
One of the cameras installed by Lametta about four months before her murder, which trains on the street where she was fatally shot, execution-style last weekend
Inside Lametta’s elegant duplex she was able to live in comfortable conditions far different from the humble housing estate a few streets away where she had lived with her family
She left her long-term job in August 2021 at Thrifty – now rebranded as SIXt car rentals – where she was popular with customers.
About four months ago, Ms Fadlallah installed a powerful security system at the Panania home, which included three front-facing cameras trained on the street where she was murdered at around 9pm last Saturday.
Before her murder, her now 16-year-old son attended a private Catholic boys’ school in Revesby and was regularly picked up at home by his doting grandmother.
Ms Fadlallah’s fiance at the time of her death had been dating her for more than a year, her sons Ali and Taleb told Daily Mail Australia.
Ms Fadlallah’s grown son, Abraham Derbas, told Daily Mail Australia on Monday night that his mother should be remembered as a “very nice lady”, while his grandmother, Zam Zam Derbas, described what happened as a previous “tragedy”.
Mrs Fadlallah’s family will attend the funeral of their daughter and sister next week.
