A reformed drug dealer whose Swedish model fiancée tried to order contract killings of prosecution witnesses has found love again – two years after his last engagement broke down.
Former strip club owner turned ecstasy producer Steven Spaliviero and blonde beauty Charlotte Lindstrom made headlines in 2007 after police arrested them.
He was jailed for 11 years for an undercover drug operation that supplied the city’s rich and famous and she was jailed for offering a hitman $200,000 to kill two witnesses.
Six years after his release from prison, 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, but she was deported after his release from prison and he served 11 years in prison and became a mentor and model inmate.
Steven Spalivero and his fiancée Ciara Jones got engaged on New Year’s Eve
The pair reportedly live a relatively quiet life on Sydney’s northern beaches compared to Spaliviero’s wild criminal past, but enjoy flaunting their life of luxury travel and fine dining on social media.
The couple flaunted their life of luxury travel and fine dining on social media.
Spaliviero’s latest engagement comes two years after he popped the question to a Sydney real estate professional – known only as Emma – during a European vacation in 2022, but the relationship ended before the couple.
On Wednesday, Spaliviero dodged questions about his new life when asked by the Daily Mail Australia.
His vow of silence is a change of heart after publishing a tell-all ebook, titled Pills Of God, in 2015.
The self-published memoir revealed astonishing revelations about his chaotic relationship with Lindstrom and how he became Australia’s biggest drug cook.
Spaliviero and Lindstrom first met 20 years ago and embarked on a fateful romance that would end in prison, their doomed relationship making headlines around the world.
At the time, Lindstrom, 18 years his junior, was a glamorous blonde who worked at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney and at the Hemmesphere bar in Merivale.
The couple shared their exciting news with friends and family on social media.
Lindstrom, above on a surveillance camera, offered to pay a “hitman,” who was an undercover police officer, $200,000 to have two witnesses in a drug trial placed in “the graveyard.”
Their relationship imploded in 2005 after Spaliviero received a tip that police were bugging his house and car, and he found a tracker hidden in his bumper.
Police would eventually charge him with manufacturing 44kg of ecstasy in Riverstone, northwest Sydney and other locations, 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 Center, where she refused to eat.
She received this sentence in exchange for being the Crown’s star witness in her fiancé’s drug trial.
Lindstrom, who became anorexic in prison, made world news when she became a Crown witness against her ex
Lindstrom wasted away while incarcerated at the Long Bay special center, and upon her release, after three years behind bars, she was deported to her native Sweden.
At the time, she claimed Spaliviero ordered the hit, but he was acquitted of the charge and became a model prisoner, his 16-year sentence reduced on appeal.
Despite this, she still wanted to marry him and Spaliviero did not blame her for testifying against him.
“We were deeply in love and writing to each other in prison,” he told Daily Mail Australia after his release.
“The last letter I got from her said, ‘When it’s all over, find me.’ She begged me, ‘I still want the fairy tale.
“When she returned to Sweden, she was forbidden from contacting me. I didn’t know where she was.
“She was like a missing person, but then (a relative of Spaliviero) received a Facebook message from a girl who knew Charlotte under a completely new identity.”
By the time 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 at the exterior.
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