Australia’s bikie WAGs revealed
New footage has shown one of Australia’s bikie widows running for cover as her husband was killed. She is just one of the many wives and girlfriends of the country’s most well-known bikies.
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They are the glamorous faces behind some of Australia’s most well-known bikies, known for their luxury lifestyles and eventful love lives.
They’re not accused of wrongdoing or involvement in bikie gangs themselves, and instead are the wives and girlfriends of Aussie bikies.
JADE JESKE
Jade Jeske, was married to slain former Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu, who was assassinated on June 27, 2022.
At the time, she watched as her husband was shot eight times in a Sydney carpark.
Jeske later told a jury that by the time she made it an elevator, she knew he was “going to be dead”.
CCTV footage played at the NSW Supreme Court showed Nazlioglu, 40, driving a black Mercedes, which the court heard was central to his death in a carpark in Walker St, Rhodes.
During the trial, Nazlioglu’s widow Jeske, formerly Jade Heffer, was seen on CCTV getting into a lift and pushing buttons as she ducked for cover.
“I knew that he was going to be dead,” she told the court while giving evidence at trial.
“I didn’t go and touch him or go over to him. I looked at him.”
Two men were this month found guilty of Nazlioglu’s murder.
The bikie widow has since wed Trent Jeske, an associate of the Alameddine crime clan.
AYSEN UNLU
Hollywood was once home to Aysen Unlu who boasted A-lister connections.
Then the model, dancer and stunt double met Mongols bikie Shane Bowden.
The couple would storm a home in Melbourne’s ritzy South Yarra together where Bowden, dressed in camouflage gear and wearing night goggles, threatened those inside.
It was a dramatic fall for Aysen, who thought she was a big deal.
She claimed online to have worked on movies as a stunt double for the likes of Angelina Jolie, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Lopez.
She even boasted to have hosted events at the Playboy mansion with Kim Kardashian.
The glamour girl even rubbed shoulders with one of the greatest boxers of all time, Floyd Mayweather.
This was a far cry from a Melbourne courtroom in 2015, where she pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, common assault, and theft committed earlier in the year. She was sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order for her role in the crime.
Bowden would serve a stint in jail over the crime and upon his release was picked up by gang members in a limousine.
The high-flyer didn’t last long. Bowden was murdered in a Gold Coast driveway in 2020
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ELISE MEEHAN
The wife of Rebel turned Comanchero boss Allan Meehan caused a stir on social media when she posed with her husband while wearing Winnie the Pooh pyjamas in club colours back in 2022.
Posting the photo of himself and his wife on his Instagram page, Meehan, who was wearing an $867 Versace designer dressing gown, added the comment “new robe same love” with a yellow heart emoji.
The couple have not been shy when it comes to Instagram, with Meehan posting a picture of the designer-clad Elise kissing him on a luxury yacht in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in August 2022.
Elise and her husband moved from NSW to Queensland with their teenage daughter in 2023 “for his safety,” after Meehan was told there was a $3 million hit on his head, according to his lawyer, Angus Edwards.
PARIS VASILJEVIC
Paris Vasiljevic, the partner of Ex-Mongols sergeant at arms Mark Balsillie, is said to be a good influence on the former bikie boss, who has her name tattooed across his knuckles.
In 2022, Balsillie pleaded guilty to trafficking 127 grams of cocaine that was found in his Melbourne apartment in 2020.
He was sentenced to a community correction order for three years and ordered to undergo treatment for mental health and drug addiction, and perform 150 hours of unpaid community work.
County Court Judge David Brookes said Paris Vasiljevic had “never been in trouble with the law,” as well as “never had any problems with alcohol, other drugs or gambling.”
Judge Brookes also said that Ms Vasiljevic was fully aware of Balsillie’s legal situation and had remained supportive.
DANIELA SARACEVIC
The wife of Comanchero Bemir Saracevic, Danijela previously gave sworn evidence in court in 2016 that she “voiced her disapproval” over her husband’s involvement in the gang when they had a thriving business and a mortgage to pay.
The pair live in Melbourne and share three children.
Judge Paul Lacava, who jailed Saracevic for at least three years for various charges, urged him to leave the gang, and said, “You come from a good family and have a loving and supportive wife.”
KAREN IBRAHIM
Karen Ibrahim gave insight into the effects of the bikie lifestyle relationships in 2011, when she told a court that she would “feel vulnerable” if her husband, a former member of the Nomads Motorcycle Club, went to jail if he was convicted of kidnapping a teenage boy who he wrongly believed had broken into her home. He went on to be found guilty.
The pair married in 1996 and have three children together.
Sam Ibrahim is currently living with his mother, who is in poor health, in her mansion in Merrylands, Sydney.
HEATHER VELLA
The wife of Alex Vella, former president of the Rebels Motorcycle Club who was deported in 2014, Heather Vella is one of Australia’s original bikie WAGS.
The former barmaid met Vella in 1977 and later bought a house with the bikie in Sydney’s Horsley Park, where she lived for decades.
She has previously told how she taught her husband how to read in English since he was practically illiterate after migrating to Sydney from Malta with his family when he was young.
ATHAR ALMATRAH
Dating a patched up bikie landed Athar Almatrah in the clink.
Almatrah, who was dating a Fink at the time, used a fake Instagram account to lure a man from a rival bikie club to a near-fatal ambush.
She coaxed Mongol Rocco Curra to the Melbourne suburb of Bulleen on behalf of the Finks using “flirty” messages and a fake name, “Sarah Riccardo”, in August, 2019.
Curra had previously sent “sleazy” messages to her real account.
When Curra arrived he did not find the attractive woman flirting with him on Instagram, but instead was greeted with gunfire from a hitman.
Curra survived the shooting and Almatrah, who pleaded guilty to causing reckless injury, was jailed for a minimum 10 months for her “essential” role in setting him up.
JESSIKA POWER
Former MAFS reality TV star Jessika Power once dated murdered Melbourne gangster Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim.
Abdulrahim, 32, who was a former Mongol bikie, was gunned down in the underground car park at Preston’s Quest Hotel in Melbourne’s north in January this year.
Power dated him in 2019 after he was released from prison, but she ended the relationship over underworld fears.
“I just feel like that underworld thing at the minute in Melbourne and Sydney is just getting out of hand,” she said.
“It was part of the reason why I ended up leaving because I just didn’t want to be around that.”
At the time of his death, she remembered him as a “great protector”, and she criticised internet trolls who she claimed weren’t being “respectful” to a man who had died.
“I’m just over it and it doesn’t need to reflect back into my personal life now … please be respectful and understand that someone has passed away,” she said in a video posted to Instagram.
“And that we don’t need to be a**holes on the internet constantly and I know there are some troll accounts out there that go ‘Oh I wanna be a piece of s**t today.
“Just stop doing it because it’s not fair on anyone and this is actually a real life event and it is actually really hard on people.
“And it doesn’t need to affect me … me and my relationship right now,” she added.
Power said he was a “family man” who was a “really good guy”.
“Everybody looks at these bikies and Mongols as bad people, but he was a family man, he was dedicated to his family,’ she said.
AMANDA MARTIN
Amanda Martin watched her bikie partner die in her arms from a shot fired from 300m away.
His assassin, a former Australian soldier, was out of sight when he took out Rebel boss Nick Martin at the Kwinana Motorplex, near Perth, in 2020.
The marked-for-death bikie was sitting in the stand with Ms Martin and her daughter when the bullet pierced his chest.
Within a year of the murder, Ms Martin’s tattoo parlours were erupting in fire.
The assassin has never been named, but he named the names of those who paid him to kill before he was jailed for 20 years.
But Ms Martin didn’t shy away from a fight.
Instead, she sued the hitman and the Western Australian government over the “mental harm suffered” from witnessing her partner of 10 years shot “in cold blood”.
But Ms Martin has also had her run-ins with the law.
She was acquitted over allegations she aided Mr Martin extort an accountant for $30,000 in 2013.
She gave evidence in her own defence saying there were two sides to the man she loved: “Nick the partner and Nick the Rebel”.
CAROLINA GONZALEZ
Carolina Gonzalez said her family was “destroyed” the day her husband, then-Comanchero president Mick Hawi, was shot dead in 2018.
She was even angry enough to confront a property developer and threaten to kill him.
“But I didn’t mean it,” she said of confronting Eddie Haragli.
“I was angry. My husband had just died.”
Ms Gonzalez was not only grieving, she still wanted to grow her family.
Within 36 hours of his death she was having sperm medically extracted from Hawi’s body as he lay in the morgue.
Ms Gonzalez wrote in her application to the NSW Supreme Court she “desired, and still desires” a child with Hawi.
This was within 24-hours of his shooting murder as police hunted his killers.
Two men charged with his murder were acquitted of his murder two years later.
Gonzalez met Hawi in 1995 and married him in 2002 and had two children with him.
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