A GLAMOROUS fashion designer helped her tycoon boyfriend hide away cash he conned from unsuspecting women he had sex with after targeting them through a dating site.

Alexandra Subris, 32, shared in the spoils of the tens of thousands raked in by "predator" Guy Brudenell, who met his victims on a site called Sugar Daddy.

Brudenell, 46, was a successful businessman until the 2008 financial crash, which wiped out much of the fortune he amassed with his hotel, building and property developing empire.

With the help of Subris, Brudenell turned to fraud to rip off an estimated £66,000 from the four victims who fell under his spell as he pretended he was still living a playboy lifestyle.

One of his victim's said she felt "sexually violated" when discovering his lies, which included telling her that he had bowel cancer.

Once he had gained their trust by saying he had vast funds in offshore accounts, Brudenell persuaded them to splash their money on bogus investment deals, living the high life on the proceeds.

Brudenell was jailed for nine years in 2013, but Subris appeared before Teesside Crown Court on Monday where she admitted her part in the scam.

She pleaded guilty to laundering the money he stole from his victims and to hiding cash from the Insolvency Service by pretending to renovate a property in Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire.

The court heard Subris provided false invoices for work she had supposedly had done on the sprawling house, Buttsville, when in fact it was a ruse to stop it being claimed as one of Brudenell's assets.

An earlier hearing was told the couple spent the money conned from victims on a life of luxury.

It included renting an exclusive apartment, massages, health and beauty treatments, hiring topless dancers, a trip to the Monaco Grand Prix, a stay in a top London hotel and shopping sprees at upmarket department stores.

Brudenell lived in a £1.3m country mansion in Helmsley, North Yorkshire, with its own cricket pitch, tennis court, greenhouses, summerhouse, cottage and terrace on its 7.62 acre site.

One of the women he had an affair with tracked him down to his house and confronted him, telling the court in a statement: "I feel sexually violated by him. It frightens me there are such terribly dishonest people out there."

Another said: "Guy Brudenell has had a horrible detrimental effect on my life and still does to this day."

Although he was regularly having sex with three of the four women he conned, Subris continued to be Brudenell's girlfriend throughout his offending.

She was a fashion designer who owned high end dress-making businesses. In 2012 she modelled one of her own creations at Ladies Day at York races.

On Monday, Subris, from Pudsey, near Leeds, brushed away tears as she pleaded guilty to the offences and was given bail until her sentencing hearing on December 2.

Brudenell was jointly charged with the offence of hiding money from the Insolvency Service through the property renovation scam, which he has admitted at an earlier date.