The former girlfriend of the gunman behind the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting says she has found "peace" almost two years after the attack.
Dual-Australian citizen Marilou Danley dated the man behind the worst mass shooting in modern US history, Stephen Paddock, for four years.
On October 1, 2017, 64-year-old Paddock opened fire on a country music festival from his Las Vegas hotel suite, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800 others.
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Danley, a former casino worker, has since relocated to a luxury Los Angeles estate with her only daughter.
The property, said to be worth NZ$3.6 million, is reportedly owned by Danley's daughter and son-in-law in an exclusive Los Angeles neighbourhood.
Danley, a former Gold Coast resident, told the Courier Mail she is "in peace right now".
Despite initially being named as a person of interest, the FBI concluded that Paddock acted alone in the shooting. Danley, who was visiting family in the Philippines at the time, was allegedly gifted US$150,000 by Paddock in the weeks prior to the attack.
Paddock, who has been described as a high-stakes gambler who spent his time in Las Vegas casinos, fatally shot himself as police closed in on the Mandalay Bay Hotel suite.
Danley previously described Paddock as a "kind, caring, quiet man" who never gave her reason to believe "something horrible was going to happen".
She claimed Paddock's mental health had significantly deteriorated prior to the shooting, telling investigators he had complained about an incurable "chemical imbalance".
The FBI concluded that Paddock was inspired in part by the notoriety of this father, a bank robber who was once on the FBI Most Wanted List.
"It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some sort of infamy," said Aaron Rouse, the special agent heading the FBI's Las Vegas office.
A thorough investigation into the case concluded that Paddock had no recognisable motive to kill, other than wanting to die in infamy, the Daily Mail reports.
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