Australian couple Michael and Lynley Le Grand deported after brothel sex scandal in Bali
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A brothel-owning Bali bombing survivor and her husband will be kicked out of the island paradise when they are released from a seven-month jail stint.
Melbourne couple Michael and Lynley Le Grand are expected to be taken to immigration upon release from the notorious Kerobokan Prison on Saturday, having been arrested in a sex raid in Bali last October and served time for their involvement in 'prostitution practices'.
But some of their businesses, including a string of bars and a cafe, remain open, and they may be able to return soon to the tourism hot spot.
The Le Grands may have to face angry investors in their multiple Bali companies, some of whom say they are owed money.
Many in the Aussie expat community working and living in Bali say they are 'fuming' at how they have treated the island they called home.
'Everyone's really peed off here,' said one Melbourne expat working in close association with the Le Grands in Bali.
'People here are fuming.
'It doesn't send a good message – how you can get away with things.
'This is still a nice island, but the way the Le Grands have been operating gives it a bad name. It is disrespectful to the good Bali people here and their culture.
'There are so many Australians who have good businesses here and want to help the island flourish.
'The Le Grands have just spat in the face of all that.'
The expat said angry investors back in Melbourne would be 'waiting on the tarmac' wondering where their money had gone.
'There is a lot of money owed,' the expat said. 'Mick has also been saying that when he does come back he's going to be bigger and better. It's a joke.'
The Le Grands' three children are believed to be living in Bali with one of Michael Le Grand's older children, and it is unclear if they will return to Australia with their parents.
Meanwhile, photographs have emerged of the former Melbourne couple before they were arrested in Bali.
'Annual oil change,' Michael Le Grand captioned the photograph of him wearing a green dressing gown and smoking a cigarette while attached to a drip outside a medical clinic.
He was also pictured wearing Elton John style glasses to celebrate Christmas.
Lynley Le Grand was seen comforting a baby at the couple's Corner House restaurant, with Michael saying on social media that the infant was given 'a few small sips of wine' to calm her down.
The Le Grands were well known in Bali's expat community before their arrest as they owned The Goat – Greatest of all time – bars in Seminyak and Legian.
The couple were also pictured with Rohan Gazzard at The Goat Melasti in Kuta last year.
'Catching up with Bali royalty Michael J Le Grand and Lynley and the band at the Goat Melasti,' Mr Gazzard wrote on Instagram.
He also posted a picture with Michael Le Grand in July last year captioned: 'Monday business meeting of Bourbons and Bintangs are way more fun in Bali.'
It is not suggested that Mr Gazzard knew of the Le Grands brothel operations.
Mr Gazzard did not respond to a phone call and text message seeking comment.
The couple's Pink Palace brothel was one of the few locations offering full sex in Bali but their brazen marketing landed them in jail.
Indonesian court documents revealed that police found used condoms, massage cream and G-strings when they raided the Pink Palace Spa last year.
The brothel had 25 therapists working there when it was opened on May 24 last year.
Court documents stated that services included 'hand jobs' for men for $112 for 30 minutes, while it charged $262 for two female therapists to provide penetrative sex to male customers.
The spa also charged couples $365 for two therapists to get a female and male customer sexually aroused before they had sex, the court heard.
The gaudy pink double storey building in Seminyak attracted attention from expats who feared that it would lead to Bali becoming similar to Thailand, which is known as a sex tourism destination.
Ms Le Grand suffered 30 per cent burns to her body when she was caught up in the 2002 Bali bombings at Paddy's Bar.
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