Porn star pasts of bikini-clad ‘drug mules’ accused of smuggling £17million of cocaine into Australia on cruise ship
Canadians Isabelle Lagacé, 28 and Melina Roberge, 22 were on a round-the-world cruise when police arrested them and found 95 kg of cocaine in suitcases
THE porn star past of one of the two women charged with smuggling £17million worth of cocaine into Australia on a luxury cruise ship has today been revealed.
Canadians Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, travelled round the world while allegedly carrying "commercial quantities" of the Class A drug before being detained in Sydney.
Today it has emerged that one of the detained women, Isabelle Lagacé, has a secret past as a full frontal porn model.
Racy images of Lagacé feature on a website called Flashy Babes and show her in lingerie shots.
The second, Melina Roberge, has been described to by her former boyfriend as a “superficial woman always turned on by money and on the look-out for a sugar daddy”.
People close to Roberge said she was “all about money, money, money” and a former boyfriend called Michael said: “She was a flirt and moreover she was just a superficial young woman.
“Melina was lovely and attractive, but she wanted money and people who had money.”
“It was all about money with her and she was dating older men too because they had the cars and the power to give her the lifestyle she wanted badly.
“She just wanted the best things but as far as I knew she never worked for them and had a steady job.”
The luxury cruise, costing around £11,400, started in Britain and toured the US and South America, including Colombia and Peru, before sailing to New Zealand and then Australia.
The haul was the largest seizure in Australia of narcotics carried by passengers of a cruise ship or airliner, Australian Border Force commander Tim Fitzgerald said.
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The three did not enter pleas when they were charged in the Sydney Central Local Court with importing a commercial quantity of cocaine. They face life sentences if convicted.
They will remain in custody until their next court appearance on October 26.
Roberge and Lagacé’s social media accounts are awash with exotic snaps from the alleged drug run including pictures of their pair drinking from coconuts on a white sand beach.
Other posts show the duo riding quad bikes through a desert, hiking in Peru and exploring beach caves in their bikinis.
The suspects boarded the ship in Southampton. Police are investigating whether they boarded with the drugs or sourced them from one of several South American ports the ship visited on its way to Australia.
Fitzgerald thanked the U.S. Department of Homelands Security and the Canada Border Services Agency for helping identify the three as "high-risk passengers" among the 1,800 on board.
Fitzgerald alleged 77lbs of cocaine were found in suitcases in a cabin the women shared and 132lbs of the drug were found in the man's luggage in a separate cabin.
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