Salacious drug and sex sessions in hairdresser’s salon emerge in ‘global celebrity’ stylist’s bail application on charges of allegedly raping male Grindr dates after secretly applying methamphetamines

Explosive allegations about salacious drug and sex sessions in a Sydney hair salon have emerged during a bail application by stylist Danny Soulaimane on charges of allegedly doping and raping male Grindr dates.

The family of Soulaimane – who calls himself a ‘global celebrity’ artist – sat grimly through sordid details of body parts, sex encounters, illegal drugs and a blindfold read out by a Supreme Court judge on Monday.  

He appeared in court via AVL from Bathurst prison. The court heard that more possible alleged victims have spoken up, but his lawyers argued that if sex and drug encounters truly did happen between the men, they were consensual or exaggerated.

As Soulaimane’s relatives including his mother, aunt, sister, brother-in-law and cousin listened, Justice Gregory Sirtes SC described the police and prosecution case behind the two rape and two drug charges against the hairdresser.

His Honour said Soulaimane, the owner of inner-western Sydney SalonDS had allegedly ‘met men using (gay dating app) Grindr, invited them to the salon for sex, and covertly inserted methylamphetamine into their anuses with his finger causing them to become intoxicated’. 

In the first incident, from a March 8, 2026 encounter, Justice Sirtes said, the complainant alleged that Soulaimane ‘inserted methylamphetamine with his finger.

When the man accused the hairdresser of ‘drugging him’, the accused denied it and allegedly ‘penetrated’ the man again ‘repeatedly’. 

The second alleged incident on May 25 this year, involved a man who, without the knowledge of his husband, had gone on his lunch break to Soulaimane’s salon.

The court heard the complainant claimed he had expected a session with the drug amyl nitrate and a blindfold.

Instead, Soulaimane allegedly ‘inserted methylamphetamine with his finger’.

This allegedly caused the man to become ‘woozy, then blacked out (then) came to on the floor’ of the salon ‘sweating heavily with a sore penis and anus’. 

Soulaimane was dramatically arrested at his salon on August 7, and has been in jail since.

He is charged with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of administering an intoxicating substance with intent to enable himself to commit an indictable offence. 

Prosecutors revealed on Monday that charges relating to a third man are going to be laid soon against Soulaimane, and that there were two other possible complainants.

But the salon owner’s barrister, Ben Barrack, told the court that sex was consensual and ‘drugs may have been done to heighten the experience’.

He said that the existing complainants had lied about the salon encounters.

He added the second alleged victim ‘went there with the intention of having sexual relations and went there with the intention of having amyl nitrate’. 

Mr Barrack said remarks Soulaimane had made during police interviews which the prosecution found incriminating only referred to the use of ‘lube … lubricant with his finger’.

These included the accused allegedly stating he didn’t ‘have enough of any drug to do anything with’ and that he only had ‘my medical weed’.

Police also charged him with possession of a prohibited drug after police allegedly found 15g of meth when they arrested him at his Rosebery salon.

The 39-year-old boasts on his website of having an international clientele and being ‘world champion hair artist-trained’.

He has operated the same hair parlour for 19 years.

But in testimony to support his release on bail, Soulaimane’s sister said that since his incarceration the business was in danger of closing down.

Bernadette Habkouk said that while running software and fashion businesses and raising three young children, she had found it ‘quite extreme’ to keep SalonDS afloat while her brother was in jail.

Upon his arrest, ‘overnight this unexpected change occurred and we did our best to navigate around it. Some days it’s hanging by a thread,’ she said, breaking down in tears.

Justice Sirtes granted Soulaimane bail on strict conditions and on the proviso that his mother, Benny Soulaimane, or Bernadette Habkouk, or her husband, Nasim Habkouk, deposit a $50,000 cash surety. 

Ms Habkouk wept in court at the ruling. 

Soulaimane will have to report daily to police, and be under virtual house arrest except to attend his salon and run the financial side of the business. 

He is not to use Grindr or any dating apps, nor can he engage sex workers, or workers at massage or strip clubs.