Ex-AFL star Ricky Olarenshaw’s former partner Saranitha to walk free from Bali jail
The estranged wife of former AFL star Ricky Olarenshaw is due to walk free from a Bali jail after serving her sentence for running a brothel.
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A former AFL star’s estranged wife is due to walk free from a Bali jail on Friday after serving her sentence for running a brothel.
Ricky Olarenshaw’s former partner Saranitha was expected to be reunited with her children for the first time in seven months.
The emotional mum said “I just want to see my kids” at her sentencing hearing.
But she continued to blame Olarenshaw for allegedly being the mastermind behind the Flame Spa chain which operated as brothels.
Olarenshaw, 52, has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged.
Bali police have said they were not investigating him and he has posted pictures of his daughter recently.
Saranitha, 38, has done her time in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison in cells with dozens of other inmates.
The Instagram influencer was arrested after a vice raid in Bali, which also netted middle class Melbourne couple Michael and Lynley Le Grand who ran a brothel from the Pink Palace Spa in Seminyak.
The Denpasar District Court found that Saranitha was “legally and convincingly proven guilty (of) providing pornography services.”
Some of the workers at the brothel were also jailed as prostitution is illegal in Indonesia.
Saranitha told the court that she had “a moral obligation to the other defendants and their families for what my husband did.”
“I hope your honour will give me a chance to carry out my responsibility as a mother to my children, who need mental support, especially since we have been abandoned.”
Translated copies of Indonesian court documents claimed that “Mr Ricky Norman Olarenshaw” was a shareholder in the Flame Spa.
He also instructed staff to prepare the lingerie and kimonos for massage therapists, court documents claimed.
The Flame Spa had outlets in Seminyak, Kuta and Canggu, which openly advertised its extra services.
“Our therapists are specially trained in the art of sensual massage, capturing your sexual energy,” the website said.
“Skiful, discreet and exotic.”
The spas also boasted of “unique UV-lit private rooms” with “beautiful therapists.. well trained in sensual body slide massage.”
WhatsApp messages sent to an account linked to Olarenshaw’s phone number detailed some of the operations.
In messages allegedly sent between Olareshaw’s account and a worker, the former footballer had said: “Explain how it works he should be able to refer heaps of guys”.
In other messages, Olarenshaw allegedly wrote: “What girl did he book. His friend want to book her”.
Olarenshaw, who played in Essendon’s 1993 premiership, has previously said that everything was “not what it seemed”.
He had been an influential figure in Bali, running the spa and F45 gyms that attracted many people in AFL circles.
Olarenshaw and Saranitha separated more than 12 months before the raids.
However they were photographed together at Olarenshaw’s Playboy themed 50th birthday party where he dressed as porn king Hugh Hefner.
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