A 24-year-old model has thanked her legal team after she avoided a criminal conviction for attempting to carry a condom filled with 5.6g of cocaine into a Sydney concert.
Student and Only Fans creator Grace Athanatos was caught by drug-detection dogs at a DJ MaRLo concert at Sydney Olympic Park on May 14.
After being strip searched in a private room, a knotted condom inside the model’s vagina was found. Athanatos was then charged with supplying drugs.
While her Instagram is normally filled with glamorous outfit shots and photos of her dining out at high-end restaurants, Athanatos had a slight change of tone this week, when she thanked her legal team for her result in court.
“HUGE shout out to my savior @ahmeddob and his team at @dibassociateslawyers for helping me today,” she shared to her 9000-plus followers.
“Honestly such an amazing result and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without them. Highly recommend seeing them if you’re ever naughty or find yourself in trouble like me.”
Appearing at Burwood Local Court on Monday, Athanatos skated away without a formal conviction and was given a 12-month conditional behavior bond. She was represented by criminal lawyer Ahmed Dib from the Kogarah-based Dib & Associates Lawyers.
Athanatos insisted she was a nice girl and never had any intentions to supply the cocaine. She claims she was planning to share her stash with her girlfriends and had only taken a single bump of cocaine prior to being busted.
“It was really scary!” she said. “I was so shaken up and I just wanted to do the right thing and be nice.” Anathantos continued to say, “Obviously I wanted to have a little fun, I had a small amount and yes I tried to hide it, like everyone else, but I was caught.”
Under New South Wales law, the maximum penalty for the offense is two years imprisonment and/ or an $11,000 fine if dealt in at a Local Court. If the offense proceeds to the district court, it carries a maximum sentence of 15 years and/ or a $220,000 fine.
Probably smelled good 😊
I can hear the police. “Mam you do realize you have a tube of cocaine in you vagina?” “Yeah I only took one bump of it. The rest is for my girlfriends. Got to make them work for it you know.”
Is she actually a model or is she just an internet “model” with a few thousand followers and an Only Fans page? Seems like every young woman with a camera and an Instagram accoun5 is a “model” now and an “influencer”, lol.
If she wasn’t a “celebrity” I wonder what her sentence would have been! People without money or a public following would not be able to thank their attorney for getting the sentence reduced to nothing. 9000 plus followers? That is not a lot of people who want to see her eat.
Just Trash walking around
As you said, “not be a lot of people who want to see her eat”, but a lot would like to eat her…