Disgraced Salim Mehajer walks free from jail – and you won’t BELIEVE where he makes a beeline for…even before he’s seen his family

Bankrupt property developer and disgraced ex-politician Salim Mehajer walked free from jail on Friday – and headed straight to a cosmetic dentist to get his teeth fixed.

Mehajer didn’t even stop off to see his family at home before speeding down the M2 to visit a dental surgeon in Hornsby in Sydney’s north to repair his prison teeth.

He made a brief diversion on the way there to get a new driver’s licence from Service NSW in Westfield Parramatta before spending an hour getting dental work.

Mehajer, 39, was notorious for the cosmetic work he had done before his downfall, with gleaming Hollywood white teeth and apparent facial fillers as his hallmark style.  

The disgraced former deputy mayor tried to dodge Daily Mail Australia by jumping out of his black 2018 Mercedes S450 limo at traffic lights near the surgery.

He emerged from the surgery just after 1pm – wearing $900 Louis Vuitton sunglasses – but brushed off questions about his health through clenched lips with a muttered: ‘Good, thanks.’ 

Mehajer, wearing a blue suit and pink-striped tie and sporting a manbun-style ponytail, appeared to have added a few centimetres to his waistline while inside jail.

His suit appeared crumpled and ill-fitting after his five years in prison, no longer tailored to his previously svelte frame.

He also seemed to have been given a recent prison haircut, despite his ponytail, with hair closely trimmed at the sides.

Mehajer politely opened the door for another client leaving the clinic complex, which also houses cosmetic surgery salons, before heading back to a waiting chauffeur.

He had earlier dismissed questions about his future as he walked through the Parramatta shopping centre to the Service NSW outlet. 

‘I’m going to respectfully decline to comment,’ he said.

The one-time millionaire, who flaunted his wealth with an extravagant wedding and luxury marble mansion, had earlier tried to dodge cameras when he left the John Morony Correctional Centre in Windsor, 55km northwest of Sydney on Friday morning.

The eldest of Amal and Mohamad Mehajer’s eight children, will be relying on his parents’ support if he follows through on his plan to rebuild his failed property empire.

The former Auburn council deputy mayor has been in prison since November 2020, when he was jailed for lying to a court, and has served back-to-back sentences for multiple offences.

The NSW State Parole Authority (SPA) decided last month to grant his release on conditions including that he undergo drug and alcohol testing, participate in domestic violence programs if directed, and not communicate with any outlaw motorcycle gang bikies or associates.

He is also banned from contacting his DV victim or entering the Central Coast.

Mehajer was declared bankrupt during a previous prison stint in 2018 when his property business, SM Project Developments, was liquidated.

Creditors included the Australian Taxation Office and the company which built the marble staircase at his former lavish home in Frances Street, Lidcombe.

He was locked up again in 2020 after he was found guilty of two counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of making a false statement under oath.

While behind bars in 2023, Mehajer was again convicted in separate trials for unrelated fraud and domestic violence offences.

A jury found Mehajer guilty of multiple counts of assault, one count of intimidation and one count of suffocation relating to his abuse of an ex-partner, and he was sentenced to a maximum of seven years and nine months in jail.

He was convicted of assaulting the victim by punching her in the head in his car, suffocating her with his hand over her nose and mouth until she passed out, crushing her hand as she held her phone and threatening to kill her mother.

At a further trial while he was in jail, he was found guilty by a jury of fraud on two counts each of making a false document and using a false document.

The jury convicted him of creating false statutory declarations and affidavits by forging the signatures of his solicitor, Zali Burrows, and one of his six sisters.

Mehajer overcame a raft of objections, including the risk of him reoffending, his refusal to change his attitude and his continued denial of some of his crimes.

In granting him a release, SPA said Mehajer had completed all possible programs in prison.

It determined his rehabilitation was better served in the community under the supervision of a psychologist and community corrections officers.

His parole conditions include being of good behaviour, and ongoing treatment from a private psychologist.

Mehajer first made headlines with his over-the-top wedding in 2015, when a reported $1million of gaudy excess closed off a Sydney street.

Mehajer and his young bride ‘Aysha’ – former Wollongong beautician April Learmonth – were married amid a procession of Harley Davidsons, rented Lamborghinis, a helicopter overhead, and a reception with 10,000 red roses and gold-dusted desserts.

The flashy party had been delayed until Mehajer’s father made his exit from prison, after being released early from a maximum three and half years’ sentence.

Mohamad Mehajer was convicted of conspiring to defraud the National Australia Bank of more than $3million after attempting to bribe a bank employee to approve a loan that overstated the value of the family property company.

Salim’s marriage lasted a year. In 2016, Aysha took out a restraining order against him, and thereafter the attention-seeking fraudster became embroiled in legal and financial troubles.

Now it’s his dad’s turn to help his son, who he has previously described as ‘the brain’ and ‘the head’ of the family.