High-flying friendship between mates Oliver Curtis and John Hartman crash lands amid courtroom accusations The Bondi Beach apartment owned by Oliver Curtis. THEY were the handsome playboy elite of Sydney. Fast cars, beautiful women, impeccable connections and huge wads of cash. Oliver Peter Curtis and John Joseph Hartman went to exclusive Catholic school Riverview, St Ignatius College, after meeting as teenage neighbours in Mosman in 1998. As young men they were out on the town three times a week, dining at fine restaurants like Bondi Italian and frequenting the casino. Oliver Curtis, the husband of Roxy Jacenko, leaves Downing Centre Court. Curtis was a Cleo Bachelor of the Year finalist, had socialite Hermoine Underwood on his arm and drove an Audi S series. Hartman blitzed an economics degree at Sydney University, earning cash pencilling for bookies at Randwick racetrack. He landed a lucrative equity dealer's job at Orion Asset Management when he graduated. Curtis got part-way through university before becoming an investment banker, later setting up Riverstone Corporate Advisory with his father, Nick Curtis, a former executive at Macquarie Group and who founded a mining company. Hartman's job was to place orders with stockbrokers to buy millions of dollars worth of shares on behalf of Orion's clients. When placed, the orders pushed up the price of the stock. He was 21 and earning $4166 clear a month but he was also punting big on horses and at the casino. He began buying his own positions in stocks before placing the price-shifting orders from Orion, cashing in when the price rocketed up. The decade-long friendship blew up five years ago after Hartman got busted for insider trading and earned a 10 per cent discount on the 15 months jail he served for claiming that Curtis was allegedly part of the scam. The final nail in the coffin of their relationship was delivered this week in the Downing Centre Local Court when Curtis spent two-and-a-half days in the witness stand to make good his promise to the corporate watchdog to inform on Curtis. Hartman alleged at Curtis's committal hearing on a charge of conspiring to commit insider trading that on about 50 occasions he tipped off Curtis about what stock Orion was poised to buy. He said Curtis came up with a plan to use BlackBerries with unique PINs to communicate in a way that could not be traced. Hartman alleged they had a deal that earned the pair millions. Under the deal Curtis covered all the year's rent of $156,000 plus expenses when he, Underwood and Hartman in early 2008 moved into a luxury apartment at 14 Notts Ave Bondi Beach. John Hartman being released from Silverwater Correctional Centre. In an email tendered in court Curtis wrote to Hartman in October 2008: "we need to sort out the bill system at home as I have been paying for all the bills up to now but the one we just got for electricity is $2200." Hartman immediately replied: "Hey mate we when (sic) did the trading start of the year we did 70t ($70,000) more than we need I assumed that this would cover all the bills." Roxy Jacenko and husband Oliver Curtis. Hartman's bank statements tendered in court revealed that in June 2007, around the time he bought a $60,000 dark silver Mini Cooper S convertible with $12,000 worth of accessories, a deposit of $60,000 landed in his account from Encounter Investments, a company allegedly set up by Curtis. A cash deposit of $20,000 that landed in Hartman's account in November 2007 around the time he acquired a $19,380 black Ducati Sports motorcycle also allegedly came from Curtis, Hartman told the court. Emails tendered to the court alleged Curtis covered accommodation and helicopter costs during an overseas trip for Hartman and other mates, including a budget with Spearmint Rhino gentlemen's club in Las Vegas. Oliver Curtis" former girlfriend Hermoine Underwood, leftm with friends at Icebergs in Bondi Beach Source: News Limited In October 2008 Curtis asked Hartman to lend him $200,000 after being landed with a big tax bill. Hartman alleged in court he didn't give Curtis the money because he believed he had a gambling problem. Hartman was earning $350,000 a year when he went down for insider trading. As Hartman at age 25 went to a special part of Silverwater jail reserved for informants, Curtis continued living the high life, putting a rumoured $200,000 ring on the finger of Roxy Jacenko, owner of Sweaty Betty PR. The couple enjoyed a lavish March 2012 wedding and last week Jacenko revealed she was pregnant with their second child. Asked just prior to her wedding to comment on speculation her husband might be charged, Ms Jacenko, 32, said: "Max Markson actually once said to me, 'Today's news is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper,' and it's very true." Ms Jacenko did not respond to The Daily Telegraph's request for comment yesterday. Ms Jacenko drives a white Ferrari and Curtis a $200,000 Mercedes and they live in a $6.6 million mansion in Woollahra while Hartman now lives in Perth, estranged from his friends of the past. Roxy Jacenko and Oliver Curtis watching their baby daughter Pixie-Rose during their wedding.