Pasquale Barbaro promised Miranda Kerr as guest on underworld yacht party, court told

Australian model Miranda Kerr has been unwittingly dragged into a murder trial involving Sydney gang members and recently slain crime boss Pasquale Timothy Barbaro.

Barbaro, 35, was shot dead on Monday night just hours before phone intercepts of him were due to be played in a Supreme Court murder trial.

CCTV footage shows Brothers For Life leader Farhad Qaumi (left) and Pasquale Barbaro at The Star casino in January 2014. Photo: Supplied

Farhad Qaumi, head of the street gang Brothers for Life, is on trial for organising the murder of one of Barbaro's crime rivals, standover man Joe Antoun, in Strathfield in 2013.

On Thursday, Mr Qaumi's trial heard evidence about a New Year's Eve yacht party in 2013 organised by Barbaro.

He had promised Mr Qaumi that all of the city's biggest gangsters would be on the luxury Oscar II yacht and Miranda Kerr would be a special guest.

He told Mr Qaumi the party was "all for you" and he was "the main event," a former Brothers for Life member, known only as Witness J, told the court.

However, Kerr did not attend the party and the Oscar II was shot at when it docked at Rose Bay at the end of the night.

Mr Qaumi was hit in the shoulder.

Promised as guest: Miranda Kerr. Photo: AP

Witness J told the court on Thursday that he thought Barbaro's offer to Mr Qaumi was suspicious because the pair barely knew each other.

Phone taps played in court on Tuesday captured Barbaro and Mr Qaumi talking on the phone, referring to "fishing", which was believed to be a code.

Photos of them together at The Star casino were also tendered.

At the time of Mr Antoun's death, Barbaro was pursuing him over an alleged $750,000 debt Mr Antoun owed to Griffith wine merchants.

The trial head that Barbaro had told associates he had twice tried to kill Mr Antoun but had not gone through with it.

Barbaro was shot multiple times, including at least once in the head, when he left the Earlwood home of construction industry figure George Alex on Monday night.