The estranged wife of disgraced celeb dentist Steven Lin has damaged her silence on her husband’s “affairs, secrets and abuse” three weeks after he was shot useless by police after attacking two ladies.
Lin died after being gunned down throughout a tense stand-off with cops in Potts Point on March 3.
Police declare the 41-year-old entered a Sydney house advanced on St Neot Avenue armed with a knife and attacked two ladies in an house.
Cops have been referred to as to the scene about 10.50am, however after failing to restrain Lin utilizing tasers, he was shot by an officer and died.
His widow Cassandra Lin, who cut up from her husband in 2023, has now penned an open letter to her former companion wherein she particulars how their relationship “came crashing down”.
“When I met you, something in me settled… you weren’t just the man I loved, I thought you were my soulmate, the person I believed would walk by my side for the rest of my life,” she wrote on Instagram.
“We had it all… our little family felt whole and unbreakable…[then] my world came crashing down when I discovered the life you had been living behind my back.
“The affairs. The secrets. The abuse. The child you fathered that I knew nothing about.”
Describing how when Lin’s secret life was uncovered, Cassandra mentioned “it shattered the trust… and the future I thought we were building together”.
At the time of his demise, Lin – the previous CEO of the Helix Dentistry Group within the Central Coast, a enterprise the web site states was based by Cassandra – had a troubling historical past with the authorized system.
Days before his demise, Lin confronted Wollongong Local Court charged over allegations he choked and assaulted a intercourse employee and stole $2000 from her in March 2025.
According to The Daily Telegraph, the fees have been dismissed after the complainant didn’t seem in courtroom.
The courtroom was advised that on the time of the alleged incident, Lin had recorded 4 breaches of bail, two assault issues and two choking-related offences.
Court paperwork additionally alleged he had a number of breaches of apprehended violence orders, in addition to stalk/intimidate offences, and described him as having proven violent behaviour in the direction of ladies and disrespect for court-imposed situations.
His household additionally advised the ABC Lin had turn out to be a frequent consumer of methamphetamine after he cut up from his wife, leading to him ceasing all affiliation with Helix Dentistry Group, which has two practices in Long Jetty and Erina.
Cassandra acknowledged the sophisticated flip the as soon as “world-renowned” dental nutritionist’s life took, writing: “You were complicated. You were flawed. You made choices that hurt me deeply and changed our lives forever… I had to stand back and let you fight your secret war. A war you lost in the end.”
She ended the letter by promising to look after the 5 youngsters they share collectively, and promised to not erase him from their lives, regardless of his actions.
In an earlier submit dated January 2025, Cassandra described how her “whole world was turned upside down” after the invention of her husband’s deceit.
“It’s been a journey that you couldn’t make up. Each week, a new revelation, a new story, a new trauma, a new discovery of the depth and level of actions that there are just no words for. The betrayal, the abuse, the violence, the deception,” she shared.
“Two years of a kind of hell that only happens in movies, that you couldn’t possibly make up even if you were attempting to write a really hectic movie that would leave the viewer in a serious state of bewilderment and shock.”
Lin, who wrote the best-selling guide The Dental Diet, died shortly after being shot on March 3.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Peter McKenna mentioned on the scene “a taser was deployed (but) it was ineffective” and after “confronting police, one round was discharged by a police officer”.
“The man was sometime later confirmed deceased at the scene.”
The two ladies weren’t recognized to the offender.
“Both have been taken to hospital, one with more significant injuries than the other but believed not to be life threatening,” Assistant Commissioner McKenna added on the time.
“One (woman) have injuries that would be consistent with being assaulted with a weapon, the other’s injuries are consistent with blunt force trauma.”
An area man advised Sky News he was sitting by the pool when he heard a girl cry for assist adopted by police sirens.
“He was trying to jump out the window,” the person mentioned.
“(I heard) taser shots and then they have dragged him away, then next minute I heard some gunshots.
“I saw him on the floor, pretty much lifeless while they were trying to do CPR.”
A important incident investigation is underway.
