Assault charges dropped against heir to pokie fortune Peter Ainsworth Peter Ainsworth enters Waverly court. Picture: John Grainger Source: NewsLocal THE heir to a $4 billion pokie fortune, Peter Ainsworth, has had a charge of assaulting his girlfriend Alice McClure dropped. The 28-year-old grandson of pokie king Len Ainsworth, did not appear in Waverley Court this morning, where a hearing of the charge and an Apprehended Violence Order was due to proceed. The court attendance notice served on Mr Ainsworth states he was charged with assaulting Ms McClure between 10.40am and 10.50am on November 27 at Darling Point. Mr Ainsworth, a keen sailor and triathalete, was apprehended by Constable Elliott Merret from Rose Bay police station at 11.15pm on November 27 last year, the notice states. He was taken to Waverley police station where he was formally charged with common assault at 3am. At the time of his arrest Mr Ainsworth was living at the family home on Wolseley Road Point Piper, but he has since moved to Bondi. Last year he entered a plea of not guilty to the charge. In court today Magistrate Eve Wynhausen withdrew the application for the AVO and dismissed the assault charge. In July last year he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession after he tried to hide his drugs in pot plants during a police search of a trendy eastern suburbs pub. He was busted when a police drug dog team searched the top level of the Woollahra Hotel about 6.30pm on Saturday, April 21. He was found guilty of possessing between 0.1 and 0.2 grams of cocaine and given an 18-month good behaviour bond. Mr Ainsworth's lawyer Michael Bellingham said his client did not wish to comment. Mr Ainsworth's family is worth about $4 billion. His father Stephen, a well-known ocean yachtsman from Point Piper, has made a fortune in property, and his grandfather Len has made a fortune in manufacturing poker machines which are exported worldwide. Len Ainsworth started Aristocrat Gaming, but now runs rival Ainsworth Game Technology