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Oliver Curtis returns to work after jail release

FORMER investment banker Oliver Curtis headed straight back to work on Monday morning, just days after being released from prison.

The husband of Sydney publicist Roxy Jacenko was spotted grabbing a smoothie with the couple’s five-year-old daughter Pixie at their local cafe in Bondi.

Curtis was released from Cooma Correctional Centre on Friday morning on a good behaviour bond after he was convicted of conspiracy to commit insider trading 12 months ago. He was reunited with Jacenko, Pixie and his son Hunter, 3, on a private plane at the local airport.

It is believed the 31-year-old will walk into a ready-made job at his father Nick’s medical technology start-up E-Nome, which helps consumers access medical records via their smart phones.

Things appeared to be business as usual between Curtis and Jacenko on the weekend, despite speculation about their marriage. The couple were photographed having breakfast and grabbing coffee with their children in Bondi on Saturday morning.

While Curtis was in jail, Jacenko was photographed kissing her Sydney property developer ex-boyfriend, Nabil Gazal. The pair also went on a series of romantic dinner and coffee dates.

Jacenko has lost a reported 15kg over the past 12 months. She exercises three times a week with a personal trainer and sticks to a “green juice and sashimi sushi diet”.

A source told The Daily Telegraph that Curtis is willing to forgive “any indiscretions” of Jacenko’s while he was behind bars, if she could forgive him for the mistakes that put him in jail.

Jacenko initially sparked speculation her marriage was over after she was photographed several times without her wedding ring.

In February, she also posted an Instagram video joking she lived like a “single girl”, as she struggled to do the zipper up on a new season Zimmermann dress. “Single girl issues = trying to get your zipper up,” she wrote on Instagram.

But when asked about her marriage on Channel Seven’s The Morning Show in March, Jacenko said “all is fine”.

“I don’t know who goes to the gym with their jewellery on,” Jacenko said.

“I definitely put a face on because there’s always a few good looking boys in the gym. But I’m still married,” she said.

“Look, no marriage is ever perfect. Obviously mine is challenged because of the situation we’re in, but Ollie is a wonderful father and I’ve got my rings on [today], but I don’t wear them to the gym ... all is fine.”

As for the “single girl issues” post, she said there was “nothing in it.”

“I couldn’t do my dress up and I remember as a single girl and I was living by myself, I used to try and get a coat hanger and I’d be like trying to rip the zipper up,” she said.

Jacenko visited Curtis several times in prison, but said she is “still angry” at her husband’s crime.

She also feels guilty for the “void” her children will have in their lives because of his absence. She previously told her children that Curtis was “in China” on business.

“Ollie was very, very hands on with them … he had an ability to work a lot remotely,” she told Mia Freedman’s No Filter podcast.

“That’s for me the biggest issue. I brought these two children into the world, I have a duty and now because of my decision they are going to have this void.

“I was angry … I’m still angry now. Because as a mother, and I think a lot of people relate to this, if you have children you have an obligation. Like I would forgo my own happiness for my children’s happiness.”

rebecca.sullivan@news.com.au

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Update: 2024-06-15