Salim Mehajer has been arrested overnight and charged with breaching an AVO preventing him from seeing his estranged wife Aysha Learmonth.
The 31-year-old is believed to have been arrested following a car crash with a friend of Aysha, according to 7News.
Police have also accused him of dangerous driving.
Last week, Mr Mehajer claimed in court that he and his wife are still together – and their separation was nothing but a ruse.
Appearing in Sydney’s Central Local Court on Thursday to appeal his bail conditions, Mehajer was under cross-examination, and therefore under oath, when he made the claim, The Daily Telegraph reported.
‘She wants to get out of the media and she acts like she is not with me but she is with me. We are not [separated] – we are still together, we are talking,’ he said.
Salim Mehajer has been arrested in Sydney overnight and charged with breaching an AVO preventing him from seeing his estranged wife Aysha Learmonth (pictured together in 2015)
Mehajer tied the knot with Aysha Learmonth (pictured on wedding day together) in August 2015, in a so-called ‘wedding of the century’. It’s is believed their marriage imploded less than a year later
The news comes just one day after the disgraced former Auburn mayor’s younger sister Aisha married John Ibrahim’s nephew Sam on Saturday at the same home where Ibrahim’s bodyguard ‘Tongan Sam’ was shot in the back hours earlier.
Many of her prominent family members, including Mr Mehajer and his parents, where not in attendance.
Mehajer and Aysha’s marriage is believed to have imploded less than a year after their August 2015 ‘wedding of the century’ that shut down a Sydney street.
Mrs Mehajer reportedly packed her bags and left their mansion in Lidcombe, western Sydney, to stay with family in the NSW Illawarra region.
The disgraced deputy mayor of Auburn faced Sutherland Court in August for an AVO filed by police on behalf of Aysha, which was extended this month.
The order was the second he had faced, after first facing court for an AVO hearing in July 2016, when police prevented him from contacting or approaching his estranged wife following a confrontation at her sister’s Wollongong home.
As a result of the court orders, Mehajer is not allowed to contact Ms Learmonth.
The property developer said in court though that he is ‘not too familiar with the AVOs’.
The news comes just one day after the disgraced former Auburn mayor’s younger sister Aisha married John Ibrahim’s nephew Sam (pictured togetehr) on Saturday
Mehajer (pictured) told a Sydney court the pair are still married and still in contact. An AVO prohibits him from contacting Ms Learmonth
The pair are pictured attending a court hearing in 2015 after Mehajer was given penalty notices for allegedly driving an unregistered Ferrari without a licence
Mehajer told the court he was ‘not too familiar with the AVOs’ before claiming the pair were still together
‘All I know is that we do talk and we are still married,’ he said.
Last year, Mehajer threatened to rape the parents of estranged wife Aysha in a vicious and expletive-ridden video message.
The shocking video obtained by Channel Nine’s A Current Affair shows the embattled property developer screaming into the camera.
‘Aysha you’ve got five minutes to give me a call,’ Mr Mehajer says.
‘I’m going to rape your mum. Your mum and your f****** dad’.
The videos were reportedly sent after the former beauty therapist moved out of the estranged couple’s marital home earlier this year and refused to talk to him.
Mehajer was under cross-examination as he tried to appeal his bail conditions when he made the eyebrow-raising claim
‘I hope you die you f****** sl**,’ he screams, his voice cracking from the exertion.
Mr Mehajer also switches briefly to Arabic in the short clip.
‘I swear on the Koran, I swear to God, I’m not leaving today,’ he says.
On Sunday, the 31-year-old shared a photograph of what appears to be another woman to his Instagram account.
The woman’s face was blocked by a monkey sticker, and a marking on her wrist was blurred out.
Underneath the image, he posted a line of red love hearts.
When Ms Learmonth was asked by Daily Mail Australia in March to clarify if she and Mehajer were still together, Ms Learmonth replied: ‘No confusion, thanks.’
She was seen at the time celebrating her birthday with family in Sydney. Mr Mehajer was not present.
On Sunday, Mehajer shared a picture of a woman with her face covered and a mark on her wrist blurred out (pictured)
When Ms Learmonth was asked by Daily Mail Australia in March to clarify if she and Mehajer were still together, Ms Learmonth replied: ‘No confusion, thanks’
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