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Brothel owners banned in Victoria for employing underage prostitutes now running big brothels in Sydney
BROTHEL owners banned in Victoria for employing under age prostitutes have moved across the border and are now among those running some of Sydney’s biggest brothels.
An investigation by The Saturday Telegraph into the city’s biggest legal brothel barons has found four have criminal pasts, with two of them banned from running brothels in Victoria and one who has denied links to the illegal sex trade.
Liaisons brothel owner Mark Gray’s licence was revoked in Victoria for employing an underage prostitute but he still employed a 16-year-old at his Edgecliff brothel after her mother forged the girl’s birth certificate.
The revelations have led to calls for Premier Barry O’Farrell to dust off his election promise and review the licensing laws and probity checks on the owners of NSW’s 400 legal brothels.
“We need licensing to keep criminals out of the legal brothel industry,” said Chris Seage, who investigates illegal brothels for councils and the sex industry.
The call was backed by some of Sydney’s biggest brothel madams. Linda Pickard, who owns La Petite Aroma and Victoria’s Secrets in Chatswood, said: “We definitely need licensing.” Special Minister of State Anthony Roberts’ spokesman said the government was reviewing feedback on the regulation of brothels.
There are an estimated 200 brothels within 20km of the CBD employing about 1500 girls a night. They have sex with strangers for as little as $130 for half an hour to keep the brothel barons in luxurious homes, driving imported cars and sending their children to private schools.
Mark Gray, who lives with his parents on the Gold Coast, owns two of Sydney’s biggest brothels — The Golden Apple and Liasions. His licence was revoked in Victoria for five years after employing an underage girl.
“I accidentally forgot to follow up and check the identification of a new lady who applied for work,” he said. He was fined but there was no conviction.
Four years ago Liasions employed a 16-year-old girl. At the mother’s trial for child prostitution over forging her birth certificate, Judge Paul Conlon described Liasions as “a high class agency, however frequented by low class individuals”. The girl was charged out at $330 an hour and serviced 18 clients in a 13-hour shift.
Mr Gray yesterday said the birth certificate was a perfect copy and the police had not pursued his brothel, only the mother.
Graham Harvey, who owns Centrefolds brothels in Artarmon, Gosford and Albury, was also barred from operating brothels in Victoria in 1996 after receiving a two-year suspended sentence for offences relating to child prostitution.
“I had an issue there 20 years ago, it’s all on the public record,” he said.