Top fund manager Fredrik Blencke charged with assaults

Fredrik Blencke, 48, is facing allegations of assaulting his wife and two police officers in separate incidents.

A top Sydney fund manager who is friends with two socialite couples involved in a messy intertwined relationship is facing allegations of assaulting his wife and two police officers in separate incidents.

Fredrik Blencke, 48, is charged with assaulting his glamorous wife Annabelle Price at their Vaucluse home in the city’s east about 7pm on August 16, with police arriving close to an hour later and apprehending him.

Blencke — who has worked for UBS, Goldman Sachs and Bell Potter — is a friend of fellow high-profile fund manager Charlie Aitken, whose affair with Hollie Nasser — the former best friend of his wife Ellie — has set tongues wagging in recent weeks.

In one photo of socialite couples Charlie and Ellie Aitken, and Hollie and Chris Nasser, taken in happier times last September, Blencke can be seen standing arm-in-arm with them.

Top Sydney fund manager Fredrik Blencke is charged with assaulting his wife Annabelle Price. Picture: Ken Butti

Annabelle Price and Freddie Blencke celebrating New Year’s Day at Catalina Rose Bay. Picture: Monique Harmer

Court documents state simply that police apprehended the fund manager an hour after the alleged assault, before taking him to Waverley Police Station where he was charged with one count of assault.

Police also took an interim apprehended violence order (AVO) out for the protection of Ms Price.

Under the conditions of the order Blencke cannot “threaten, assault or harass” his wife, as well as a ban on being in her company within 12 hours of “drinking alcohol or taking illicit drugs”.

But the alleged domestic violence incident is not the only time Blencke has come to the attention of police in 2021.

Blencke with Chris and Hollie Nasser and Ellie and Charlie Aitken.

In a separate incident from April, a drunk Blencke is alleged to have refused to leave Bondi’s famous Hotel Ravesis when asked by security.

When police arrived he not only allegedly resisted arrest, but assaulted a Constable and a Senior Constable, according to court documents.

Blencke has pleaded not guilty to one charge of remaining in the vicinity of a licensed premises, assaulting a police officer in the execution of duty, assaulting a police officer in the execution of duty occasioning them actual bodily harm, and resist officer in the execution of duty.

He is due to face a hearing at Waverley Local Court on May 27 next year.

Almost exactly two months before that on March 28 he will appear in the Downing Centre Local Court over the charge related to the alleged assault of Ms Price.

Blencke was contacted for comment.