Oliver Curtis turns to crypto following the lifting of a court-ordered ban

Roxy Jacenko’s husband Oliver Curtis, whose court-ordered ban on managing a company expired, is looking to raise $55 million for his latest venture.

Sis months after Oliver Curtis’s court-ordered ban on managing a company expired, Mr Roxy Jacenko looks to be levelling up to take a shot at a stock exchange float with Tasmanian bitcoin mining company Firmus Grid.

Curtis, who served a year in jail in 2016/2017 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit insider trading, is the chief operating officer of Firmus, which is now said to be in talks with investors to raise $55 million in the hopes of listing the business on the ASX next year.

Oliver Curtis with Roxy Jacenko. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Curtis’s professional comeback looks to be engineered by his father, Nick Curtis, the former mining company boss who made his name and fortune mining rare earths and founded China’s second-largest gold mine, Sino, in 2000.

Curtis Sr is chairman of Firmus.

The news comes four months after this column revealed Curtis and Jacenko had wound up their joint business interest, PR company 18 Communications, which was to have promoted Australian brands to the Chinese market and nine months after she denied persistent rumours she and Curtis have split.

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER BREAK-UP

Another week in Sydney, another break-up involving a high-flying banker.

As the storm surrounding Charlie and Ellie Aitken’s marriage breakdown began to subside, clouds gathered over Magellan founder Hamish Douglass, who runs a funds management business with $100 billion under management, considerably more than the $100 million under Aitken’s AIM.

Hamish Douglass has split from his wife Alexandral. Picture: Britta Campion/The Australian

Like those funds under management, the news of the breakdown of Douglass’s marriage to wife Alexandra, the mother of his four children, leaves the Aitken breakdown in the shade.

Last week it emerged Douglass, who was last seen cruising on James Packer’s boat in August during a four-month European sojourn, has been living at the family’s Southern Highlands estate since separating from Alexandra “months ago”.

She remains in residence at the family’s lavish Neutral Bay mansion.

In a mid-week statement the couple said: “As our family and close friends appreciate, we both remain extremely close and united. We continue to spend considerable time together, and as a family.”