In the last week or so, we’ve heard a lot in the media about Roxy Jacenko and husband Oliver Curtis.
Following Curtis’ release from prison in 2017 after serving time for insider trading, and the release of the PR businesswoman’s new book Roxy’s Little Black Book of Tips and Tricks, the couple have been speaking candidly about how their lives transpired during that difficult 2016 period.
As was highly publicised at the time, Curtis was sentence to a maximum of two years in prison for conspiring to commit insider trading, to be released after one year on a good behaviour bond, in June, 2016. After tearfully fare-welling his wife and children, the former investment banker traded his suit for a jumpsuit and shoes without laces.
Speaking on Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa radio show on Wednesday morning, 38-year-old Jacenko went into the details of how she helped her husband prepare for prison, and from the outside once he was there.
“Well, look, a friend of mine did tell me that having some money in prison when you first get there is very beneficial,” the mum-of-two said.
“So I may have put a couple of hundred dollars, stitched them into the lining of his jacket. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do. [They] need [money] for buy ups, if it’s freezing cold, for a doona, for food, if you’re like him, you like to read the newspaper.”
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I wish you would stop covering these people. I have less respect for white collar criminals than I do for a lot of others.
As someone who works in mental health and in the criminal system - many people who end up there have histories of massive trauma and abuse which they go on to replicate.
White collar criminals like this bloke are just massive greedy narcissists who think only of themselves and often come from good upbringings with a sense of entitlement. Stop giving them airtime.
Clothes & personal belongings are confiscated before they get inside the prison & a prison uniform is handed over, so I doubt the $ did him any good what so ever.