Roxy Jacenko LOSES court bid for AVO against ‘fan’

PR queen Roxy Jacenko LOSES court bid to have an AVO taken out against ‘fan’ she claimed spray painted slurs on the walls of her Sydney office

  • Sydney PR queen Roxy Jacenko has failed in her bid to get an AVO against a fan
  • Ms Jacenko applied for the restraining order against Anthony Hess on Thursday
  • She claimed after a run-in at an event, Mr Hess spray painted slurs on her office
  • Mr Hess denied painting the phrase ‘Roxy is a c**t’ on her Paddington office wall 

Roxy Jacenko has failed to win a restraining order against a man she claims sprayed ‘Roxy is a c**t’ on the wall of her office.

The PR agent claimed clothes salesman Anthony Hess, 39, abused her at an event last February and was so resentful he vandalised her Sydney office in retaliation, leaving her living in fear.

Mr Hess denied he sprayed the offensive graffiti, and claimed he was just trying to leave the seminar after homophobic harassment by two women. 

He claimed Ms Jacenko ‘set him up’ to create drama for her TV show I Am Roxy by putting the two woman close to him, knowing they would abuse him.

The pair squared off in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday with Ms Jacenko seeing an apprehended violence order (AVO) against Mr Hess. 

PR queen Roxy Jacenko (above) has failed to win a restraining order against a man she claims sprayed ‘Roxy is a c**t’ on the wall of her office

Anthony Hess (pictured) denied spraying the slurs on her Paddington office or other walls and bridges around Sydney

Anthony Hess (pictured) denied spraying the slurs on her Paddington office or other walls and bridges around Sydney

Magistrate Allison Hawkins said she did not find that Mr Hess sprayed the graffiti and found Ms Jacenko’s account to be exaggerated. 

The court heard the conflict began at one of Ms Jacenko’s $500-a-head ‘Conversations’ events at the Ivy when Mr Hess got into an argument with two women. 

One of those women claimed in court last year that Mr Hess called them ‘far bush pigs’, which he denied. 

Mr Hess told the court after this altercation he told Ms Jacenko’s assistant Mason Brown ‘either they leave or [my friend and I do], but was promised they would be seated far apart. 

However, he soon found he was seated directly in front of the two women, who he alleged ‘flicked water’ at him and made homophobic comments. 

After about 10 minutes he and his friend decided to leave and encountered Ms Jacenko on the way out, where Mr Hess claimed she attacked him.

‘She came at me like a steam train,’ he told the court. 

Ms Jacenko claimed she was just trying to diffuse the situation and get him to leave the event. 

Ms Jacenko stands in front of the slur which was spray painted on the wall of her Paddington PR office

Ms Jacenko stands in front of the slur which was spray painted on the wall of her Paddington PR office 

The Downing Centre Local Court heard the conflict between the pair began at one of Ms Jacenko's $500-a-head 'Conversations' events at the Ivy Bar in Sydney

Mr Hess left the event prematurely after getting into an argument with two women

The Downing Centre Local Court heard the conflict between the pair began at one of Ms Jacenko’s $500-a-head ‘Conversations’ events at the Ivy, after Mr Hess got into an argument with two women

Mr Hess told the court that Ms Jacenko (pictured leaving court on Thursday): 'Came at me like a steam train'

Mr Hess told the court that Ms Jacenko (pictured leaving court on Thursday): ‘Came at me like a steam train’

Ms Jacenko’s lawyer Greg James QC said the incident left Mr Hess with ‘resentment’ for his client, leading him to paint the offensive graffiti on her Paddington office two months later. 

Mr Hess said he didn’t even know where her Sweaty Betty PR office was and he was asleep at a friend’s house on Oxford Street 10 minutes drive away at the time. 

‘That’s not my style. Gay guys don’t do graffiti,’ he told the court. 

He denied holding any resentment towards Ms Jacenko over the incident. 

‘To be honest, I’m too busy jetsetting around the world to worry about Roxy and what she is doing,’ he said.

More to come 

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