Roxy Jacenko: Roxy’s bad boy ex was jailed for drugs

EXCLUSIVE: PR QUEEN Roxy Jacenko was in an on-off “tempestuous” relationship with a one-time rival to the Ibrahims, of Underbelly fame.

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PR QUEEN Roxy Jacenko was in an on-off “tempestuous” relationship with a one-time rival to the Ibrahims, of Underbelly fame.

The Sweaty Betty founder’s three-year relationship with John Macris was interrupted when he was jailed for drug supply.

PR queen Roxy Jacenko was once in a relationship with John Macris. Picture: Diimex

Jacenko’s romance with Macris is one of a number of relation­ships detailed in the new book Blonde Ambition: Roxy Jacenko Unfiltered, by The Daily Telegraph’s Annette Sharp.

Macris was also at the centre of a conspiracy to murder case after Fadi Ibrahim, the younger brother of King Cross nightclub identity John Ibrahim, was shot five times while sitting in his Lamborghini outside his Castle Cove home.

No one was charged over that 2009 shooting but police later charged Fadi Ibrahim, his younger brother Michael and associate Rodney “Goldie” Atkinson over allegations they had been conspiring to kill Macris in retaliation for the near-fatal shooting. Those charges of conspiracy to murder against the three men were later dropped.

Roxy Jacenko’s former boyfriend John Macris.

Fadi Ibrahim was charged over a conspiracy to kill Macris. They charge was later dropped.

Macris’s three-year, on-off relationship with Jacenko was interrupted in 2005 — a year after the PR boss had opened her successful agency Sweaty Betty — when the Greek-Australian was jailed for two years and three months for supplying a commercial quantity of drugs and handling suspected stolen goods.

The relationship, Sharp writes, was “tempestuous”, and Macris, a man said to appreciate his women in “volume and quantity”, was married at the time. Macris has since made a new life for himself in Greece with a Playboy model.

Greek model Viktoria Karida is now with Macris. Picture: Supplied

Jacenko engaged in a three year romance with Macris, pictured here at Gosford Court.

He is the son of Stelios Macris, who was charged in 2011 with possessing­ 50kg of amphetamine oil — enough to make $12.5 million worth of the drug ice — and released on $2.1 million bail.

Another son, Alex, who is married­ to Jacenko’s best friend Jessica Ingham, the frozen chicken heiress, later claimed his father was merely acting as a drug mule in transporting the oil. Stelios was acquitted­ and his son Alex was granted immunity from prosecution for giving evidence

Blonde Ambition: Roxy Jacenko Unfiltered by Annette Sharp

Roxy Jacenko with husband Oliver Curtis.

The book also catalogues Jacenko­’s other colourful relationships, including with inter­national playboy and soccer star Dwight Yorke and a series­ of Australian up-and-coming businessmen and society­ princes including property developer Nabil Gazal.

Jacenko is now married to Oliver Curtis, who is serving jail time for insider trading.

Blonde Ambition: Roxy Jacenko Unfiltered by Annette Sharp (MUP, RRP $32.99, ebook $14.99), out on Tuesday. mup.com.au/items/198614.