A reformed drug dealer whose Swedish model fiancée tried to order contract murders of prosecution witnesses has found love again, two years after his last failed engagement.
Former strip club owner turned ecstasy producer Steven Spaliviero and blonde beauty Charlotte Lindstrom made headlines in 2007 after police arrested the couple.
He was jailed for 11 years for a clandestine drugs operation that supplied the city’s rich and famous and she was jailed for offering a hitman $200,000 to kill two witnesses.
Now, six years after being freed from jail, Daily Mail Australia can reveal Spaliviero has found love with another younger woman.
The 59-year-old is now engaged to Newcastle beauty Ciara Jones, 28, after popping the question on New Year’s Eve.
Spaliviero and Lindstrom were engaged to be married, but she was deported after her release from prison and he served 11 years in prison and became a mentor and model inmate.
Steven Spalivero and his fiancee Ciara Jones got engaged on New Year’s Eve
The couple are understood to live a relatively quiet life on Sydney’s northern beaches compared to Spaliviero’s wild criminal past, but they enjoy flaunting their life of luxury travel and good food on social media.
The couple has flaunted their life of luxury travel and good food on social media.
Spaliviero’s latest engagement comes two years after he popped the question to a Sydney property professional, known only as Emma, during a European holiday in 2022, but the relationship ended before the couple tied the knot.
On Wednesday, Spaliviero dodged questions about his new life when asked by Daily Mail Australia.
His vow of silence is a change of heart after he published a revealing e-book, titled Pills Of God, in 2015.
The self-published memoir reveals startling revelations about his chaotic relationship with Lindstrom and how he became Australia’s biggest drug cook.
Spaliviero and Lindstrom met 20 years ago and embarked on a fateful romance that would end in prison, and their doomed relationship made headlines around the world.
At the time, Lindstrom, 18 years his junior, was a glamorous blonde working for Sydney’s Hilton Hotel and at Merivale’s Hemmesphere Bar.
The couple shared their exciting news with friends and family on social media.
Lindstrom, above on surveillance camera, offered to pay $200,000 to a ‘hitman’, who was an undercover cop, to put two drug trial witnesses in ‘the graveyard.’
Their relationship imploded in 2005 after Spaliviero received a tip that police were bugging his home and car, and found a tracker hidden in his bumper.
Police would eventually charge him with manufacturing 44kg of ecstasy at Riverstone, in Sydney’s northwest, and elsewhere, and jail him.
In May 2007, Lindstrom was also arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder after meeting undercover police officer ‘Rob’, outside Sydney Town Hall. ‘Rob’ posed as a hitman.
Lindstrom was arrested as she left City Hall and imprisoned for three years and ten months at the Long Bay Special Purpose Facility, where she refused to eat.
She was given the sentence in exchange for being the Crown’s star witness in her fiancé’s drug trial.
Lindstrom, who became anorexic in prison, made global headlines when she became a Crown witness against her ex.
Lindstrom wasted away while incarcerated at the Long Bay Special Purpose Facility and when she was released after three years behind bars she was deported back to her native Sweden.
At the time he claimed that Spaliviero ordered the murder, but he was acquitted of the charge and became a model prisoner, with his 16-year sentence reduced on appeal.
Despite this, she still wanted to marry him and Spaliviero did not bother her for testifying against him.
“We were deeply in love and wrote to each other in prison,” he told Daily Mail Australia after his release from prison.
‘The last letter I received from her said “when this is all over, please find me.” She begged me: “I still want the fairy tale.”
‘When he returned to Sweden, he was prohibited from contacting me. He didn’t know where she was.
“She was like a missing person, but then (a relative of Spaliviero) got a message on Facebook from a girl who knew Charlotte with a completely new identity.”
When he was released from prison (he served time in Silverwater, Goulburn, Cooma and Long Bay prisons), Spaliviero was no longer in love with Lindstrom and was determined to forge a new crime-free life on the outside.
