The businessman was identified when a longstanding suppression order was lifted by the County Court of Victoria.
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The businessman, who has represented artists and athletes for several decades, was identified on Monday, Aug. 3 when a longstanding suppression order was lifted by the County Court of Victoria. Related BE:FIRST Is Ready for the World: Inside the J-Pop Superstars' Long-Planned U.S. Breakthrough Jeff Benjamin
At the time of writing, Carr is yet to be sentenced.
Prosecutors alleged Carr committed the attack against a woman at his Melbourne home in March 2023, after a night when the pair had been consuming drugs and alcohol.
He pleaded not guilty at the trial. A jury, however, last week found him guilty of rape and sexual assault.
Carr’s barrister Dermot Dann KC said his client would appeal the verdicts. “Our client maintains his innocence,” Dann remarked, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. “No jury acting reasonably or rationally could have arrived at the guilty verdicts.”
Media outlets were unable able to disclose Carr’s identify until this week, due to a suppression order granted under Section 18(1)(c) of Victoria’s Open Courts Act. Carr’s legal reps had called for the gag order, arguing his personal safety was at risk if he was outed in the press.
A high-profile manager in music circles and the AFL, Ralph Carr Management clients included Vanessa Amorosi, and Arena, to whom he was married for several years in the mid-to-late 1990s. His live entertainment company RCM Touring Pty Limited went into liquidation in 2018. Two years later, in 2020, Carr was questioned in a “public examination” at Sydney’s Supreme Court in relation to RCM Touring’s financial affairs.
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