Drug Queens Freedom Photos and Bali Scandal Unveiled

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Blocked... but not forgotten

's meth queen may be out of jail, but she's wasted no time making her return to social media.

While convicted drug trafficker Tess Rowlatt and her designer-loving (and law-abiding) sister, Victoria 'Tori' Rowlatt, have both blocked me on Instagram following my articles and podcast charting Tess' spectacular fall from grace, my inbox has since been flooded with screenshots showing the twosome reunited.

I've heard whispers that Tess barely had time to catch her breath after walking free from the County Court on Tuesday afternoon before making a beeline for a cosmetic clinic to have her lips topped up.

It brings to mind Salim Mehajer heading straight from John Morony Correctional Centre to a cosmetic dentist in Hornsby to fix his prison teeth early last year.

If you aren't up to date with Tess' legal woes, the 36-year-old former party girl pleaded guilty in March to trafficking methamphetamine and dealing with the proceeds of crime.

After months in the clink, and a previous unsuccessful bail application, she is now back in the community.

Naturally, the Daily Mail had a photographer on assignment outside court for her grand return to society.

Looking fresh-faced and, honestly, a little perky (more on that later), she approached our shutterbug and tried to deny she was the infamous drug dealer altogether.

When asked if she was the Tess Rowlatt and shown a photo of herself, Rowlatt humbly declared to our snapper: 'Oh my God, she's really pretty!'

The photog remarked, 'You don't look like Melbourne's meth queen,' to which Rowlatt shot back: 'Of course not.'

She also made it clear she wasn't a fan of the Daily Mail's coverage of her case, or our paywall, before asking to see one of the images of her leaving court.

'That's dreadful,' she declared after inspecting the photos on the digital camera, before climbing into a waiting SUV and making a hasty exit.

Having swapped the walls of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre for freedom, Tess is now expected to check into the four-star Oaks Melbourne on Collins Street, where rooms start at around $200 a night.

Hours earlier, Rowlatt and her supporters, including her influencer sister and supposed boyfriend Timmy O'Dwyer, had been seen laughing and smiling as Judge Allen listed the conditions of her court-monitored bail.

I'm curious to know whether plastic surgery is permitted by the judge... Former friends tell me she's had an 'obvious' breast enhancement between jail stints.

And a cursory glance at her curves in a clingy white top outside the courthouse suggests there might be some truth to the chatter...

Bills, bills, bills

While the Tzaneros family's billion-dollar freight empire battles a growing list of financial headaches back home, youngest heir Anthony Tzaneros and his glamorous wife, Poppy Tzaneros (née O'Neil), are quietly making real estate moves.

Rumour has it the society couple have quietly listed their luxury Bellevue Hill home off-market, although neither has publicly commented on the speculation.

While there were whispers Anthony and Poppy would attend socialite Alyce Tran's wedding in England this week, I hear his sister-in-law Maude Tzaneros and sister Barbara Coombes (née Tzaneros) were representing the family contingent.

It comes after the family's privately owned freight giant, ACFS Port Logistics, narrowly escaped being wound up in the NSW Supreme Court last week after striking an eleventh-hour deal with toll road giant Transurban over unpaid bills.

The courtroom drama was over almost as quickly as it began – but it was certainly not a one-off.

In recent months, ACFS Port Logistics has also settled separate winding-up actions brought by Crown Equipment, while another creditor, the Celman Group, previously pursued the company over outstanding debts.

Financial records also show the logistics business has accumulated hundreds of payment defaults in recent years, including significant overdue amounts owed to landlord Salta Properties. Those debts have since been settled.

Founded by Terry and Arthur Tzaneros, ACFS Port Logistics has grown into one of Australia's largest privately owned container logistics businesses, helping build the family's estimated $1.6billion fortune.

Arthur, for his part, has blamed the cash-flow squeeze on customers taking longer to pay their invoices, reportedly saying ACFS is carrying between $50 million and $60 million in overdue receivables.

Whether that's enough to keep them afloat remains to be seen.

Going once, going twice

Celebrity auctioneer Damien Cooley is heading back down the aisle.

The hunky hammer man has announced his engagement to partner Niki Tee, sharing the obligatory 'she said yes' post from the Greek islands after dropping to one knee this week.

The pair celebrated the milestone surrounded by their combined brood of five children.

Niki is a Kambala old girl who owns a legal firm specialising in property law, which is believed to be how the couple met. 

It's a new chapter for Cooley, who quietly separated from his wife of 15 years, Peppi Cooley, in 2022.

'It is still pretty raw,' he told me at the time when I was filling the gossip pages of another masthead.

The former couple, who married in 2006, share three children.

The split came at about the same time Cooley found himself at the centre of a social media pile-on after posting a photo of himself posing with a dead deer on Instagram.

In the since-deleted post, he declared he had ticked off a 'big life goal' – before the backlash from the anti-big-game-hunting crowd quickly escalated.

'I've had a number of personal threats made towards me, but I've saved them all in case I ever need them,' he said at the time.

Cooley, who runs a farm alongside his auctioneering empire, defended the kill.

'Deer are I hunt for the table and my family enjoy eating venison and many other animals, like rabbits, pigs and more,' he said.

The ocker auctioneer is a familiar face to television audiences, having wielded the gavel on The Block a dozen times.

He is equally well known around Sydney's eastern suburbs.

I've spotted him more than once outside his Double Bay office enjoying a late-night tipple and a durrie after a day of multimillion-dollar sales.

His passion for auctioneering dates back to his school days. Raised in Rosebery, Cooley spent his holidays strapping horses for Randwick trainer Robert Rosengren.

Looking back, it's not hard to see where that rough-around-the-edges, quintessentially Aussie persona came from.

Snatched and found

Barely a day goes by without another fame-hungry reality star jetting off to Bali for the latest cosmetic surgery craze.

Former Married At First Sight contestant Bec Zacharia, who rose to prominence during the show's 2026 season, has confirmed she has undergone rib repositioning surgery in the Indonesian tourist hotspot.

The reality star shared a video with her 100,000 Instagram followers on Tuesday night, revealing her operation had been delayed. The controversial procedure involves repositioning four ribs to create the illusion of a dramatically smaller waist.

Coincidentally, fellow influencer and peptide enthusiast Amy Castano is currently staying at the same clinic-affiliated accommodation, aptly nicknamed 'The Rib Hotel', where she has been teasing followers with a stream of cryptic posts.

Amy is best known for co-owning the Kensington gym Acero with her insufferable ex-husband, Jono Castano – a man Daily Mail readers will know from his messy dispute with another ex, model Simone Holtznagel, over child support payments.

During her stay at the 'Rib Hotel', Amy uploaded an Instagram post teasing a 'Netflix-style interview' – the social media trend du jour – but the more likely explanation is that she's filming sponsored content for a medical tourism company she works with.

It's no secret The Solitaire is less a luxury holiday resort and more a cosmetic surgery recovery ward.

The Bali hotel has become the destination of choice for D-grade reality stars and influencers chasing their next body transformation, with guests swapping poolside cocktails for compression garments.