Oliver Curtis has opened up about his time behind bars for the first time since his release.
Speaking with the Daily Telegraph, the disgraced investment banker reaveled the tasks he was assigned while serving out his sentence — cooking, gardening and perhaps most unexpectedly, grooming his fellow inmmates.
“Someone had to do it, and I put my hand up,” he told the publication, opening up about his time in Cooma Correctional Centre. “I can do a good short back and sides.”
The 32-year-old husband of Roxy Jacenko said living behind bars was a “difficult” experience.
“It was tough, but you come out a stronger person,” he told the publication. “It was a very difficult time. It was something that I could not prepare for, something you cannot plan for.”
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“That is something that I would not wish on anybody,” he said. “It was an experience, one that I have put behind me. You appreciate a lot of different things a lot more.”
Oliver Curtis was released from the facility on June 23 after a year in jail, but wife Roxy wasn’t waiting at the gates as expected.
Instead, he was escorted through a large pack of waiting media by a personal security guard and into the back of a waiting black range rover with dark tinted windows. He then made his way to the nearby Cooma, Snowy Mountains airport where he met with the PR maven and their two children — daughter Pixie, six, and son Hunter, three — on a private jet.
“Seeing them on the plane is something that I will never forget,” he told the news outlet. “It was amazing, it was so amazing to see my kids.”
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“I hugged the kids and gave Roxy a kiss and a cuddle, and for us then everything was behind us.”
“They are definitely my number one priority and will always be my number one priority. Family is the most important thing in my life and the kids and Rox mean the world to me.”
Oliver was charged and convicted for the $1.43 million he secured through trades that were based on illegal tip-offs given to him by his childhood friend and former Orion Asset Management employee John Hartman.
He had been sentenced to two years jail, but was released after just one year on good behaviour.
