Confessions of a PI JULIA’S BEST-KEPT SECRETS
While it might be customary these days for women over a certain age to dread becoming invisible in a youth-obsessed society, Julia Hartley Moore isn’t having a bar of it.
At 67 – and one of the country’s top private investigators – the glamorous great-grandmother-of-four is challenging the notion that older women pass directly from middle age into decrepitude. When she turned 65, a professional man asked if she had thought about retiring yet.
“I looked at him and said, ‘Don’t old people retire?’” she laughs. “Instead, I went out and bought myself a brand new car, a huge thing. People probably thought I should have bought a little nana car because I’m getting old. But it doesn’t even dawn on me to act my age.”
Once labelled by celebrity gossip columnist David Hartnell as “Mature Barbie” (she took it as a compliment), Julia says she has never felt invisible,
