New video reveals how ex-AFL star partied with lap dance at Bali brothel

An unearthed video has revealed former Essendon premiership player Ricky Olarenshaw boasting to friends inside a Bali brothel as pole dancers performed. See the footage.

Unearthed video has revealed how Ricky Olarenshaw boasted “we do love the sweat” to a crowd of partygoers inside a Bali brothel operated by his estranged wife.

Footage shows the Essendon premiership player receiving a lap dance from four Indonesian women in white, jewel encrusted bikinis, while a pole dancing woman wearing a bunny rabbit mask performed.

“Thank you for making the effort to dress up and look all sexy and I apologise for the heat, we’re trying to get a few more fans in just to cool everyone down but we do love the sweat,” Olarenshaw said in the video.

The party footage was from Olarenshaw’s Playboy themed 50th birthday, where he dressed as Hugh Hefner, the founder and editor and chief of the pornographic magazine.

Ricky Olarenshaw getting a lap dance at Flame Spa, which a Bali court found operated as a brothel.

Olarenshaw’s estranged wife Saranitha sang him happy birthday on the night, and kissed him on the cheek when he cut his birthday cake.

This week, Saranitha was the centre of attention at Bali’s sparse Denpasar District Court.

Her glamorous figure-hugging sequined dress from that party was replaced by a fluoro orange high-visibility vest worn by prisoners in Indonesia’s justice system.

Saranitha, who was in a relationship with Olarenshaw for at least a decade, has claimed that she was duped into running the spa as a brothel.

She apologised in court to the women who worked at the spa “for what my husband did.”

Saranitha claimed in court that Olarenshaw, and three other Australians were shareholders and profit takers from the brothel.

A panel of judges this week sentenced her to seven months jail and with time served she may be out within two months.

Olarenshaw, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing, was approached for comment but declined to speak this week.

Bali bombing survivor Lynley Le Grand, 45, and her husband Michael, 51, were also sentenced to seven months jail after they admitted running a brothel from their Pink Palace Spa in Seminyak.

Ricky Olarenshaw’s estranged wife Saranitha.

A pole dancer at the Flame Spa.

The move was part of a crackdown on prostitution in Bali last year, amid concern it would turn the location into a sex tourist haunt like parts of Thailand.

The Le Grands, who have three school aged children, were openly running the spa as a brothel before they were nabbed in last year’s raids.

They had also hired mobile billboards to drive around Bali’s streets advertising the business, similar to the way strip clubs market themselves in Australian cities.

The Flame Spa was more discreet, and had opened three outlets in Bali before they were shut down in raids in September 2024 where police found a therapist “completely naked”.

The Flame Spa this week in Bali.

A tour of the Flame Spa outlets and the Pink Palace Spa this week revealed they remain shut down.

Overgrown plants covered the sign at one Flame Spa outlet, while another outlet had a sign telling punters “sorry, we are under maintenance.”

Security staff at Flame Spa in Kerobokan, Bali, said they were only being paid half their wages and they expected they would be sacked.

“I hope it will be operating again after the case because it is not easy to get a job nowadays,” security guard Gede Suparna said in a translated interview.

The remaining staff were only being paid half their salary, he added.

Suparna was the only person at the Flame Spa site, which once had a steady stream of customers.

The Pink Palace, which operated as a brothel, remains closed in Bali.

The Pink Palace Spa in Seminyak still had police tape covering its door this week, while a large brown hessian bag covered its street-facing sign.

The gaudy fluorescent pink paint job remains, a stark contrast to the cream coloured building housing a money changer across the road.

Michael Le Grand, who had complained of “pancreatic cancer”, has been released while awaiting sentencing for medical treatment.

The couple still own a number of restaurants and bars in Bali, including the GOAT bar, which was showing rugby league shows this week.

The Goat was shut down briefly in 2022 when Michael Le Grand was accused of running a gambling operation there, which like prostitution, is also illegal in Bali.

Michael and Lynley Le Grand.

The Goat bar, Bali, owned by Michael Le Grand.

Le Grand, who attended Haileybury College in Melbourne which now charges $40,000 a year, had updated his social media pages when he was released from medical care to show a picture of Elvis.

The fall from grace for the Le Grands has been swift.

Ricky Olarenshaw was a keen surfer in Bali.

Indonesian police have said that Olarenshaw was not wanted in Bali, however, it is believed that he has not returned to the island since Saranitha was arrested.

The former AFL star regularly posted images of him with his children on social media, but has not been able to see them since his estranged wife’s arrest.

Olarenshaw had also previously been a stalwart of the Bali Geckos football club and a keen surfer, but it’s unclear when, or if he will return to Bali.

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