Camilla and Marc using model Anei Dut who assaulted his girlfriend for ovarian cancer campaign

One of Australia’s leading international fashion labels is still using a male model who assaulted his girlfriend to help front a women’s health campaign.  

African-Australian model Anei Dut appears with his young daughter in a video on the Camilla and Marc website promoting awareness of ovarian cancer.

Dut pleaded guilty in December last year to the common assault of Jahnaya Capablanca, the mother of his daughter, almost a year earlier.

He is defending a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after being accused of bashing his former partner’s godfather.

The 27-year-old has also pleaded guilty to ripping off a string of Chemist Warehouse stores and is awaiting sentence for those credit card frauds. 

The fraud offences have received wide publicity in recent months and Daily Mail Australia revealed Dut’s assault upon Jahnaya Capablanca on Monday. 

Despite committing those offences Dut still appears as part of a Camilla and Marc campaign to raise awareness of ovarian cancer, which took the life of brother and sister founders Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman’s mother.  

‘Ovarian cancer affects thousands of women every year,’ Dut says in a video, cradling his daughter. 

‘Our mothers, our grandmothers, our sisters, and our daughters. But by talking about this disease and creating an awareness we can change that.

‘Often we’re reluctant to talk about ovaries. But for women everywhere and future generations that needs to change.’

The fashion house has been contacted for comment. 

Camilla and Marc was established in 2003 and the label has been worn by actors Kirsten Dunst, Rose Byrne, Kate Bosworth and Kristen Stewart.

Dut, who was ranked third on a list of ‘South Sudan’s 10 most handsome men alive’ by a news website in 2021, has strutted the catwalk for Tommy Hilfiger, Jack London and Calibre. 

He is accused of throwing a beer at girlfriend Jahnaya Casapblanca then bashing her godfather so badly when he came to her aid he was left with scarring on his forehead.

At the time Dut and Jahnaya were sharing an apartment at Randwick in Sydney’s east with their six-month-old girl. 

Dut, whose family fled war-torn South Sudan when he was three, was scouted while hanging out with friends at a hotel in Sydney and by 2016 was signed with the prestigious Chadwick Models agency. 

He was convicted of assault in 2013 and had his licence suspended in 2016 and 2020 for drink driving and getting behind the wheel with a suspended permit.

Dut is currently serving an intensive corrections order for contravening a restraining order and will be sentenced for the Chemist Warehouse frauds next month.

The maximum sentence for the assault occasioning actual bodily harm charge he is facing is five years in jail. 

Police were called to Dut’s apartment at 10.10pm on November 28, 2020 after a Triple Zero call reporting two men fighting in the street.

Officers found Dut with his shirt ripped open and dreadlocked Olivier Duverge bleeding profusely from a wound to his forehead. Also outside the unit were Jahnaya and her mother Chantal Capablanca.

Mr Duverge, who described Ms Capablanca as his best friend and Jahnaya as like his niece or goddaughter, told Waverely Local Court on Thursday how he came to be at the address.

He and Ms Capablanca had just ordered food from a restaurant at World Square in the city when she took a phone call from daughter, who was in distress. 

‘We got to go,’ Ms Capablanca allegedly told Mr Duverge. ‘Anei just threw a bottle at Jahnaya.’ 

The pair got into a taxi and drove to Prince Street, Randwick where they intended picking up Jahnaya and her daughter but were met by Dut instead.

‘Get the f*** out of my house,’ Dut told them, according to Mr Duverge. ‘This is my house.’ 

Mr Duverge said after a further exchange of words Dut pushed Ms Capablanca with open palms to her chest then leapt towards him and began throwing punches.  

According to Mr Duverge, he fell to the ground and Dut – who he had met but did not consider a friend – repeatedly punched him in the face. 

Under cross-examination by Dut’s lawyer Sylvie Houston, 39-year-old Mr Duverge denied throwing the first punch, saying ‘come out and fight’, or having tried to force his way into the unit. 

He agreed he had told police who found him bloodied at the scene, ‘I think I’m gonna kill this n***er’.

Ms Capablanca said she and Mr Duverge had gone to Randwick to get her daughter and granddaughter out of the unit but Dut had begun swearing at them.

‘He was riled up that we were there,’ the 43-year-old told the court.

At that point Ms Capablanca was still unsure if Dut had thrown a beer or a bottle at her daughter.  

‘I was asking, “Why would you do that to Jahnaya”,’ she said. ‘It felt like it went from zero to a 100 quite quick,’ Ms Capablanca said.

‘I was saying, “I’m not leaving without the girls”. I’m familiar with Anei and I know when he’s happy and I know when he’s angry.

‘It’s not the first time where she’s called me upset because he’s thrown her belongings out of the house or they’re fighting.’ 

Ms Capablanca said Dut punched Mr Duverge to the ground and she fell on top of her friend. Dut then continued punching Mr Duverge.

‘All I recall is one moment we’re standing there exchanging a few words and the next minute we’re on the floor.’ 

Dut, who told police Mr Duverge initiated the fight, is yet to give evidence. He will step into the witness box when the hearing resumes in December.

Camilla and Marc has been running its ‘Ovaries. Talk About Them’ campaign since 2020 to raise funds for the University of NSW Ovarian Cancer Research Group. 

The university’s Associate Professor Caroline Ford is working on an early detection test which she hopes to move to clinical trials in the next four years. 

All proceeds from the sale of a Camilla and Marc collection including a hoodie, T-shirts, cap and tote bag go towards the research.