An Australian couple and an estranged AFL WAG will remain behind bars under Indonesia’s pornography and prostitution laws following separate brothel stings in Bail.
Melbourne couple Michael, 50, and Lynley Le Grand, 44, were arrested following a raid on their Pink Palace Spa in Kuta in October last year.
Police seized evidence including lingerie, condoms and massage oil at the time, and claimed the brothel was offering ‘same-sex prostitution and bisexual practices’.
Sarinitha Olarenshaw, 36, the glamorous estranged wife of former AFL star Ricky Olarenshaw, was also arrested that same month after police raided her Flame Spa in Seminyak.
On Thursday, a panel of judges at Denpasar District Court found the Le Grands ‘legally and convincingly proven guilty of providing pornography services’.
Their seven month sentences were slighter lighter than the nine months recommended by the prosecutor.
The judges considered several aggravating and mitigating factors in the Le Grands’ case.
The time the couple have already served behind bars was subtracted from their sentences and are expected to be freed in May.
Melbourne couple Michael and Lynley Le Grande have been sentenced for running an illegal brothel
The couple were charged following raids on their day spa, Pink Palace Spa Bali last October
Aggravating factors included the disturbance caused in the community by the brothel’s practices.
The judges also considered the couple’s admission of the crime and remorse along with their lack of prior convictions and promises not to re-offend.
The court also heard the pair care for their four children and that Mr Le Grand suffers from pancreatitis.
The Le Grands have accepted their sentences and won’t appeal.
The couple first caught the attention of Bali authorities after they opened the Pink Palace Spa in 2024.
The spa offered a ‘sensual body slide and hand relief’ for $100, with the couple advertising the spa on hired mobile billboards, which triggered the police raid.
One sign featured the slogan ‘Happy coq, happy life’.
A police spokesman previously claimed the day spa was making between $95,000 and $285,000AUD per year.
Michael Le Grande was arrested following raids on a spa he operated in October 2024
Judges appreciated the Le Grands’ cooperation during the trial which they took into account when determining their sentence
A police spokesman previously claimed the day spa was making between $95,000 and $285,000AUD per year.
One commissioner alleged the business offered ‘massage services with various sensations’ for $95 to $236AUD.
Ms Le Grande made the holiday island her home after Le Grande she was injured in the Bali Bombings of 2002.
Meanwhile, Saranitha Olarenshaw also fronted the Denpasar District Court on Thursday.
The panel of judges considered Olanrenshaw’s acts were ‘disturbing and tarnished the image of Bali tourism’.
‘The defendant has been legally and convincingly proven guilty for providing pornography services,’ said presiding judge Heriyanti said.
However, the judges took into account her clean criminal record and admission of the crime as mitigating factors.
Five staff were also sentenced to seven months’ jail time on the same charges.
Prosecutors had pursued a nine month sentence against Olarenshaw and her staff.
AFL star Ricky Olarenshaw’s estranged wife Saranitha also received a sentence of seven months behind bars in relation to a different Bali brothel
Olarenshaw has an Instagram following of 23,000 people and lives separately from her husband
Olarenshaw, who has 23,000 followers on Instagram, previously claimed she was illegally detained after being arrested over allegations sex was being offered at her Flame Seminyak spa.
Olarenshaw previously alleged that her husband Ricky, his brother, and two other Australian men were the owners of the business.
Her estranged husband has denied that claim.
The spa is part of a chain of three Flame spas.
The sister centres in Kuta and Canggu also closed by police in the wake of last year’s raid.
Services at Flame Spa ranged from $95 to $181 per session and its motto allegedly was: ‘Our service is more than just a sensual massage, it is an erotic experience.
‘Our aim is to ignite your flame.’
Its Instagram profile allegedly advertised ‘Bali’s premier sensual massage’.
