Revelle Balmain: Police have stepped up the search for missing Revelle Balmain
The hotel room which is believed to have been the site of the next appointment of missing sex worker Revelle Balmain has been searched by police.
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A fresh search for answers about the disappearance of model-turned-prostitute Revelle Balmain has led police to an old hotel room they believe may have been her next stop on the day she died.
Ms Balmain was just 22 when she disappeared on November 5, 1994 with a coronial inquest five years later finding that she was likely the victim of a homicide.
But in the wake of a $1 million reward being offered and new information about the young woman’s disappearance received, police returned to three locations in Sydney’s east on Tuesday to carry out search warrants.
One of those was a room at what in 1994 was the Swiss-Grand Hotel — and is now the QT Bondi — which police believe may have been Ms Balmain’s next scheduled appointment on the day she went missing.
Police spent Tuesday morning searching the beachside hotel room.
Other locations that formed part of the new search included the sex worker’s former apartment at nearby Bellevue Hill and the Potts Point brothel headquarters where she used to work.
It is understood the agency Ms Balmain worked for had her next scheduled appointment as the room at the Swiss-Grand.
In the wake of the $1 million reward being offered, an anonymous tip was received that identified a person of interest, who it was suggested, may have information useful to the police investigation.
Police sources confirmed the mystery man had now been identified and is still alive.
A new coronial inquest into Ms Balmain’s disappearance and presumed murder is set to begin next year.