- Snezana's ex-husband Jason Rapoff breaks his silence to reveal contact with daughter Eve after years of estrangement
- 'They have got everything': Eve's grandmother reveals the family's shock as she shuts down vile online rumours
By KARLEIGH SMITH - SENIOR REPORTER, AUSTRALIA and PAUL SHAPIRO, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA and KINTA WALSH-COTTON, SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA
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Sam Wood's stepdaughter Eve Markoski-Wood has made contact with her estranged biological father in the wake of the Bachelor star's domestic violence arrest in Queensland.
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Wood, 46, who married Eve's mother Snezana Markoski three years after meeting on the Channel Ten dating show in 2015, has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm (domestic violence) and strangulation in a domestic setting.
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Police and paramedics descended on the $3,000-per-night La Mer luxury holiday villa in Noosa on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday night.
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A woman was taken away via ambulance, and Wood was questioned by police at about 9pm before later being taken to the Maroochydore watchhouse.
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Wood, a Melbourne gym owner who made a fortune in the fitness industry when he sold his company, 28 by Sam Wood, to genomics and DNA testing company myDNA in 2022 for $71.2 million, was staying at the property with Snezana and the three children they share, Willow, eight, Charlie, seven, and Harper, four.
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Eve, Snezana's 21-year-old daughter from her former marriage to Perth-based motorcycle racer Jason Rapoff, was also at the property.
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While Eve and her real dad were reported to be estranged, the Daily Mail has learned they were in contact after Wood's arrest over the weekend.
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Eve previously said of her relationship with Rapoff: 'I grew up just with my mum, single mum and she raised me to the woman I am today.
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Snezana and Sam Wood are pictured with Eve at a Formula 1 event in Melbourne in March 2025
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A young Eve smiles with her biological father, Jason Rapoff, who lives in Perth
In July last year, Eve broke down in tears as she revealed to a podcast that Rapoff had allegedly once declared she didn't 'deserve the life I'm living'.
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'He wanted to see my mum suffer.
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And I think when he saw that my mum's, like, built a life for both of us, I think it was just more of a reaction,' she said.
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'But I think he just did some things a while back, that ended him in places that he shouldn’t have been in.
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He just got involved with the wrong people.'
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Mr Rapoff was a junior motocross champion before a catastrophic dirt-bike accident left him a paraplegic.
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He split from Snezana when Eve was a baby, and has a history of drug use.
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Wood has previously said he 'never' calls himself 'Eve's stepdad', saying in 2019: 'I am Eve's dad.
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That's how I feel, that's how I act.'
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But now, in the wake of Saturday night's alleged assault, the Mail can reveal Eve and Rapoff have reconnected.
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Rapoff confirmed via phone on Tuesday morning that he had been in contact with his daughter, and was not worried for her safety.
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Jason, who has Eve's name tattooed on his right forearm, is a paraplegic
Sam was arrested by Queensland Police after an alleged incident at La Mer holiday villas
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Nah, I've spoken to her,' he said, when asked if he was concerned for his daughter.
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Mr Rapoff's mother Sophia, who is also based in Perth, reiterated that her granddaughter was 'doing fine' after charges were laid against her stepfather.
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'I don't know what was discussed [between Jason and Eve] and he will not talk to anybody,' Ms Rapoff said.
'He has been in touch with Eve - she is fine.
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That's all we're concerned about.'
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Ms Rapoff also told the Daily Mail that vile false theories had been circulating on Facebook suggesting her wheelchair-bound son was somehow involved.
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That, of course, would be impossible: Jason Rapoff is not in regular contact with his daughter and was on the other side of the country at the time.
'Some people are saying, "Oh, it might have been him!"
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Sam and Snezana fell in love on The Bachelor Australia in 2015, marrying in 2018
Sam Wood quickly became a father figure to Snezana's daughter from a previous marriage
Ms Rapoff said she was still reeling over the arrest of her granddaughter's stepfather.
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'I actually could not believe it.
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It's the last thing you would ever think.
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They [Sam and Snezana] have got everything.
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They look happy.'
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Ms Rapoff said she hadn't seen Eve since Christmas 2019 'due to Covid, and then she moved to New York'.
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Eve is studying fashion and business at the Parsons School of Design and New York University, but she currently lists her location on Instagram as Noosa.
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'She's doing well for herself, which is good,' Ms Rapoff added.
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Rapoff, 46, married Snezana, 45, in January 2005, after his release from a 12-month prison sentence for possession of methamphetamine and two firearms.
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After breaking his back on his parents' Bindon farm while dirt-biking just months after the wedding, he said he went into a 'downhill spiral' and pushed away his loved ones, including his wife and daughter.
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Jason went on a downhill spiral after breaking his back in a dirt-bike accident
Rapoff and Snezana split six months after the crash that left him disabled.
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He turned to drugs and motorsports to cope, and managed to get back on a quad bike three months after his life-shattering injury.
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