Police phone taps catch former Playboy model buying drugs to supply to friends

AUSSIE Playboy model Jemma Clark thought no one was listening when she rang up to order a “birthday gift” for a friend.

Jemma Clark leaving court yesterday after narrowly avoiding jail for drug supply.

SHE is the Gold Coast Playboy model turned coke Queen.

Jemma Clark, 36, who partied with rapper Snoop Dog at the Hollywood Playboy mansion after she won the Australian “Girl of Playboy Golf” in 2009, was yesterday sentenced to a suspended 18-month jail sentence for drug supply.

She narrowly avoided prison time after she admitted dealing cocaine and ecstasy to her circle of friends around the Coast.

Clark, who now lives in Leichhardt in Sydney’s inner west, admitted supplying 2g of cocaine and 45 ­ecstasy pills in January and February last year.

The conviction came two years after she was given a six-month good behaviour bond for possessing 2g of ­cocaine hidden in her baby’s nappy bag.

Crown prosecutor Susan Hedge said Clark was busted with the drugs when police pulled her car over as she drove out of the Bandidos clubhouse on the Coast.

In court yesterday, District Court judge Terry Martin was told that Clark told police she bought drugs to supply to her “friends”.

Clark was caught on phone taps calling her dealer in February last year and asking him to get her a gram of cocaine.

Phone taps record the former winner of “Inked Beauties Gold Coast” telling the man she is “with Mark” and the cocaine was for his birthday.

The next day she ordered another gram of coke to be delivered to a house in Mermaid Beach to be given to a friend.

Most of her deals were organised by text messages.

The mother of three, including a three-year-old son, was busted in an operation targeting the dealer.

Clark’s lawyer told Judge Martin that she started selling drugs in a “stupid” attempt to “endear herself” with the dealer who “owned a number of hotels and managed hotels”.

Clark used to run her own modelling agency called Rockabilly Dolls Modelling and Promotions, but is currently studying a diploma of makeup at the Australian Beauty College in Sydney.