Julia Hartley Moore

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Julia Hartley Moore
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Moore in 2020
Occupations
  • Private investigator
  • Media commentator
  • Motivational speaker
  • Author
Years active1996–present
Known forWork as Private investigator
Website juliahartleymoore.com

Julia Hartley Moore is a New Zealand private investigator and author who is the founder of the Auckland-based private investigation firm, Julia Hartley Moore Limited (previously Arbeth & Co Limited). Her firm specialises in infidelity, scam, and child custody cases. She has published several books about her work as a private investigator, including multiple editions of Infidelity: Exploding the Myths.

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Personal life

Julia Hartley Moore is a native of New Zealand. She is a great-granddaughter of the Yorkshire poet John Hartley. Julia is dyslexic (a fact that was not discovered until she was aged 40) and left school at age 14. [1] She had her first child at age 15 and married her first husband when she found out she was pregnant. [1] When she was 16, Hartley Moore gave birth to twins. She met her second husband when she worked as a secretary with the National Party in her 20s. [2]

Hartley Moore has married four times. [3] She is currently married to television producer Steve Butler, who she married in 2009. [1]

Career

In the 1990s when her children were grown, she moved to London where she worked a job at Harrods department store. [4] In this role she helped uncover a staff theft ring. [4] In 1996, Hartley Moore returned to New Zealand and opened her private investigation firm, [4] Julia Hartley Moore Limited (formerly Arbeth & Co Limited). She was the first woman to own a private investigation company in New Zealand. [5] She initially worked fraud cases for an insurance company, but soon began specialising in infidelity cases. She has also worked other types of cases involving scenarios like extortion, [4] missing persons, [6] and employee monitoring (among others). [7] In 2000 she wrote her first book Julia Moore, PI, which was published by Penguin Books. [8] In 2004, she authored Infidelity: Exploding the Myths, which was published by HarperCollins [9] in which she documents her work investigating infidelity cases. Multiple editions of the latter book have since been released, including by Ulysses Press [10] in 2006 and Exisle Publishing [11] in 2011. This was followed up by Suddenly Single, which was published by HarperCollins [12] in 2007.

Hartley Moore is a regular commentator on television and radio, appearing on TVNZ's 1 News, [13] TVNZ's current affairs programme Seven Sharp, [14] and has been a panelist on Radio New Zealand's The Panel for over 20 years. [15] In the 1990s she appeared on the television show Private Investigators. [1] She was also a panelist for two series of TVNZ's chat show How's Life?. [16] She has also appeared on Australian television's Channel 7. [7]

In addition to television, Hartley Moore frequently appears in print and online news media publications such as Stuff Ltd [17] [18] [19] and The New Zealand Herald [1] [2] to talk about aspects of her investigative work.

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  9. ↑ Hartley Moore, Julia (2004). Infidelity : exploding the myths. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins. ISBN   1-86950-507-7. OCLC   156005954.
  10. ↑ Moore, Julia Hartley (2006). Infidelity sleuth : a female private eye tells women how to uncover the truth. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press. ISBN   1-56975-525-6. OCLC   63528337.
  11. ↑ Hartley Moore, Julia (2011). Infidelity : exploding the myths (New ed.). Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle Publishing. ISBN   978-1-921497-90-2. OCLC   698627164.
  12. ↑ Hartley Moore, Julia (2007). Suddenly Single. New Zealand: HarperCollins. ISBN   9781869506117.
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