PR queen Roxy Jacenko leaves court in tears as she LOSES bid to have an AVO taken out against 'fan' she claimed spray-painted slurs on the walls of her office - while he 'flosses' in celebration
- 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
A Bitcoin trader has 'flossed' outside court after a magistrate refused Roxy Jacenko's bid to have a restraining order taken out against him.
Anthony Hess made the most of the attention from TV cameras and photographers outside court on Thursday, dancing on the steps after a four-hour hearing.
Ms Jacenko stormed out of the courtroom the second her application was denied and cried as she power walked to a waiting SUV.
She had claimed Mr Hess, 39, sprayed 'Roxy is a c**t ' on the wall of Ms Jacenko's office, and various other locations across Sydney, which he denied.
Clothes salesman Anthiny Hess 'flossed' outside court after a magistrate refused Roxy Jacenko's bid to have a restraining order taken out against him
Ms Jacenko stormed out of the court the second her application was denied and cried as she power walked to a waiting SUV
The PR queen also alleged Mr Hess 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 claimed he was just trying to leave the seminar after receiving homophobic harassment by two women, who he says were specifically placed by Ms Jacenko to 'set him up' and create drama for her TV show 'I Am Roxy'.
The pair squared off in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday where Ms Jacenko's bid for an apprehended violence order against Mr Hess was rejected.
Magistrate Allison Hawkins said she did not believe Mr Hess sprayed the graffiti and found Ms Jacenko's account to be 'hollow and unimpressive... grossly exaggerated'.
She said Ms Jacenko did not appear 'alarmed scared or shocked' in video of the altercation at The Ivy and didn't buy that she had a genuine fear of Mr Hess.
Outside court, a jubilant Mr Hess said the only offence was 'Roxy's spray tan and crimes against fashion... she's a trainwreck' and vowed to sue her for defamation.
'She's been stalking me for the past 12 months. I ran out of there to get away from her and she's been on me the whole time, she was her own undoing,' he said.
When asked who, if not him, would have sprayed the graffiti on Ms Jacenko's Paddington office, he repeated his most memorable line from court.
'Gay guys don't do graffiti,' he said.
'Look how many enemies she's got, half of Sydney hates her. Who wouldn't want to graffiti her?'
Outside court, a jubilant Mr Hess said the only offence was 'Roxy's spray tan and crimes against fashion... she's a trainwreck' and vowed to sue her for defamation
'Look how many enemies she's got, half of Sydney hates her. Who wouldn't want to graffiti her?' he said when asked who could have done the graffiti
Mr Hess, who is now based in the U.S., said he was grateful for the result as his visa would have been torpedoed if the AVO was granted.
'She's ruined a year of my life with this hot mess. She's wasted everyone's time,' he said.
'If she didn't want me in Sydney... I could be in America right now as I wouldn't have to be here for the case.
'Everyone said don't mess with Roxy, well, she came off second best.'
Mr Hess, showing off the for TV cameras, did a 'flossing' dance when asked how he'd be enjoying his victory.
'It's Mardi Gras this weekend so how do you think I'm going to celebrate?' he said.
His lawyer Brett Galloway called Ms Jacenko's evidence 'bulls**t' and said: 'Her lies had no substance and were never going to be believed.'
The court heard the conflict began at one of Ms Jacenko's $500-a-head 'Conversations' events at the Ivy on February 19, 2019, when Mr Hess got into an argument with fashion designer sisters Bianca and Bridget Roccisano.
Bridgett Roccisano claimed Mr Hess called out 'who let these fat bushpigs in' to her.
'So I stopped, I turned around, walked up to him and said, 'excuse me, what did you say',' she told the court.
She claimed he told her 'you're on film' and to 'go on Jenny Craig'.
'I was intimidated. When someone says something like that to you, I was like, excuse me?'
Mr Hess denied the comments, saying he would never make comments about a woman's weight.
'That word is not in my vocabulary. I actually think they're quite attractive girls,' he said.
He instead claimed they called him a 'male prostitute who had AIDS' and he told them 'it's Roxy's event, don't make it about you'.
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
Mr Hess told the court he used to be friends with the sisters but stopped talking to them after they trashed a $14,000 Las Vegas hotel room he got them, and didn't pay the room service bill.
He claimed another time one he found one of the women 'pretty cracked out' on his flatmate's bed.
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 more homophobic comments.
Bianca Roccisano when giving evidence last year said Mr Hess' claims about the sisters making homophobic comments was a 'complete lie'.
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.
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'She came at me like a steam train,' he told the court. 'She kept yelling at me 'have some respect'. She was very aggressive.'
Ms Jacenko claimed she was just trying to diffuse the situation and get him to leave the event as she had 500 people waiting to hear her speak.
'I don't think it's right those women should have to be in that environment so my aim was to defuse the situation and remove your client from the room. He was screaming,' she said last year.
However, Mr Hess' lawyer Brett Galloway said she was 'speaking over' Mr Hess and said: 'I suggest to you… his behaviour was more plaintive than aggressive.'
Ms Jacenko replied that she wouldn't say 'a man double my size hurtling towards me is anything other than scary.'
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, after Mr Hess got into an argument with two women
Ms Jacenko was all smiles during a recess while the magistrate considered her judgement, assuming she would win the case
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. 'I'm not violent, I'm not a criminal... I'm more of a fun guy.'
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.
When Mr Hess said the incident was 'water under the bridge', Mr James quipped: 'What bridge? The one in Paddington that was sprayed with graffiti?'
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