High-profile entertainment and sports manager Ralph Carnovale-Carr can now be unmasked as a rapist after withdrawing a bid for a suppression order. <\/p>\n
Carnovale-Carr, 66, was on Tuesday found guilty by a jury on two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault following a two-week trial in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The high-profile business figure rose to prominence in the 1990s managing singer-songwriter Tina Arena, who he later married for four years, and other artists before moving into sports management where he signed Richmond superstar Dustin Martin as a marquee client.<\/p>\n
Ms Arena and Mr Martin have not been accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
News organisations had been barred from naming Carnovale-Carr for more than three years as the case progressed through the courts due to a series of suppression orders that were set to expire when the trial ended. <\/p>\n
The orders \u2013 made on the same mental health grounds that prevented convicted rapist Tom Silvagni from being identified \u2013 were granted after judicial officers accepted evidence Carnovale-Carr\u2019s psychological condition would suffer if he was named. <\/p>\n
His psychiatrist, Jacqueline Rakov, had previously given evidence he posed a risk to himself and the charges had resulted in a deterioration in his mental state.<\/p>\n
In the final days of the trial, Carnovale-Carr\u2019s legal team sought, and were granted, a temporary suppression order preventing media from identifying him to allow them time to mount an argument about why the order should remain in place.
On Monday, however, they announced they would be dropping the application. <\/p>\n
\u201cYour Honour, the position is our client has instructed us not to proceed with the application for the suppression order,\u201d Defence barrister Dermot Dann KC said, before the order was formally revoked by Judge Frank Gucciardo. <\/p>\n
Lawyers acting for media organisations had planned to fight the suppression order application. <\/p>\n
Returning to court after six nights in custody, Carnovale-Carr was almost unrecognisable without his jet black wig, instead sporting a grey stubble beard, grey tracksuit and black-framed glasses.<\/p>\n
He did not speak during the hearing. <\/p>\n
Previously, a court was told Carnovale-Carr had once commented to his psychiatrist; \u201cIf I\u2019m guilty put me on the front page\u201d, however Judge Gucciardo cautioned this seemed like a \u201cthrowaway line\u201d.<\/p>\n
Carnovale-Carr reacted emotionally and with visual shock on July 28 as the jury unanimously found him guilty of two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, throwing himself back in his chair before bowing forward with his mouth open. <\/p>\n
Earlier, prior to the jury\u2019s return to court, he had been sitting rigidly, with his eyes closed and his hands firmly gripping his thighs.<\/p>\n
During the trial, jurors were told Carnovale-Carr raped the woman, several decades his junior, in 2023 after they met at his home to discuss work opportunities, including on an autobiography he was planning. <\/p>\n
The pair spent the evening drinking and consuming cocaine, where the woman said she became emotional and confided in him about a relationship breakdown.<\/p>\n
She said Carnovale-Carr hugged her and said he would \u201ctake care of her\u201d, before kissing her and sexually touching her. <\/p>\n
Prosecutor Matthew Fisher told the court the woman pushed him away saying; \u201cI don\u2019t want this\u201d, while Carnovale-Carr was allegedly saying words like; \u201cyou\u2019re so sexy\u201d, \u201cI can\u2019t stop\u201d and \u201cI need your help to sleep, help me\u201d. <\/p>\n
While the woman was crying into a pillow, Carnovale-Carr reached down her pants and penetrated her with his fingers. <\/p>\n
He then took off his pants and raped her with his penis before she punched him in the face. <\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the trial, Mr Fisher said that while there had been gaps and inconsistencies in the woman\u2019s account, she was \u201cconsistent and adamant\u201d about what had happened. <\/p>\n
Mr Dann told the jury Carnovale-Carr vehemently denied much of the woman\u2019s account, from the use of cocaine to prior sexual advances and the sexual assaults.<\/p>\n
He argued the woman had a financial motive to lie, pointing to evidence that she had hired lawyers to pursue a civil claim and told her cousin; \u201cI\u2019m going to take this man for all that he\u2019s worth\u201d.<\/p>\n
The jury heard the woman first reached out to Carnovale-Carr via LinkedIn after learning he had a role available at his company Ralph Carr Management. <\/p>\n
After Carnvole-Carr raped her, the court was told she stayed at his home for several hours and her mother text messages about what had happened \u2013 with her mother urging her to leave and contact the police. <\/p>\n
Despite initial reluctance to get police involved, she later changed her mind and reported the rape, with police arriving at Carnovale-Carr\u2019s home at about 3.40am. <\/p>\n
His legal team have said Carnovale-Carr maintains his innocence and will be both appealing the verdict and seeking a stay of sentence. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a situation where our client maintains his innocence,\u201d Mr Dann said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe will be appealing his conviction on the basis a substantial miscarriage of justice has occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carnovale-Carr will return to court on Friday for a mention ahead of presentence hearing expected to run later this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-profile entertainment and sports manager Ralph Carnovale-Carr can now be unmasked as a rapist after withdrawing a 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