If Zivko Stojakovic’s public image is heavily curated, it’s nothing compared to the love of his life, lads mag pin-up girl Melissa Louise Jordan.
They were together for seven years and share a four-year-old daughter.
His drug abuse weighed heavily on their relationship, breaking them up and leaving Jordan to raise their daughter while posting photos on Instagram to promote fashion companies including PrettyLittleThing.
Stojakovic told his psychiatrist last year that he hoped to stabilise and rekindle the relationship: “When I’m fully clean we will get back together”.
There is no suggestion Jordan, or any of the girlfriends, wives and relatives of the gangsters are involved in wrongdoing.
Jordan, who has 25,000 followers on Instagram, auditioned for TV shows Big Brother and Beauty and The Geek but did not make it to final casting.
She has previously appeared on the cover of AutoBabes magazine in 2012 and in men’s magazines Zoo and FHM and as a Monster Energy promo girl and modelled for a calendar for Royal Ink, Stojakovic and Bejat’s former Park Rd Milton tattoo parlour.
She is also part of a wider, tangled circle of girlfriends, wives, and siblings of Brisbane’s bad boys – whose love of the high-life rivals the gangsters themselves.
Petite at 5’2” she celebrated her birthday at X Cargo bar in Fortitude Valley with William Samra’s sister, restaurateur Vanessa, and again with Vanessa at Belvedere Bar in Hamilton and on the luxury party boat Seadeck on the Brisbane River.
She also dined with Bejat’s former girlfriend Krystle Kavvadas, a model with whom she has been friends for more than seven years at Cucina Vivo, a restaurant at The Star casino on the Gold Coast.
They also attended openings at The Star casino in Sydney together.
Kavvadas, 31, studied commerce at UQ and is a director of KK Consulting Group she runs from her Mermaid Beach apartment. The pair often pose for selfies together on Instagram poured into their designer frocks and clutching Chanel handbags.
Vanessa Samra was unintentionally at the centre of an extraordinary eruption of violence while she was dining with brother William at Fortitude Valley’s open-air rooftop restaurant-bar Maya Mexican with siblings in the days before Christmas last year.
A man at the trendy restaurant allegedly spat on Ms Samra, triggering her bikie brother to unleash on the man, kicking him and stomping on him.
Vanessa is a former Brisbane Bullets NBL cheerleader and describes herself online as an actor, extra, influencer, dancer and choreographer.
She opened trendy West End Lebanese restaurant Beirut Bazaar in May, and is the former girlfriend of Ivan Tumara, who was charged and found guilty of charges including trafficking in ice and cocaine between December 18, 2017 and February 5, 2019.
Vanessa was chosen as a godparent of Matthew Mackay’s daughter alongside Grigori Kossian, who used to run Catch 22, a fish-and-chip shop in Stafford, in Brisbane’s north, owned by Bejat.
Jordan is also friends with makeup artist Leah Toumpas, wife of former bikie turned Wagyu beef seller Anthony Toumpas.
Within the same circle, and a close friend of Vanessa is Mackay’s former partner Jasmine, who sells luxury hair extensions made with hair from Russian women.
Also in the wider circle is former Commonwealth Bank teller-turned drug trafficker Mary Molloy, wife of butcher Amein Odeh.
While six months pregnant Molloy was given a suspended three-year sentence for trafficking in MDA and selling cocaine.
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