A successful Sydney real estate agent has admitted assaulting his girlfriend of three and a half years.
Augusto Gerocarni, 29, who is listed as an agent for Ray White in Woollahra, in the city’s east, was arrested and charged in September last year.
The high-flying businessman is alleged to have attacked his former partner Lindsey Bennett, 32, between November 2021 and July 2022.
He had pleaded not guilty to offenses including common assault, destroying or damaging property, attempting to stalk/intimidate with intent through fear of harm and four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
However, during an appearance at Waverley Local Court on Thursday, Gerocarni pleaded guilty to one charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Augusto Gerocarni, 29, has admitted to assaulting his former partner Lindsey Bennett (pictured together)
Further charges of common assault and malicious damage will be considered at sentencing next Wednesday at Sydney’s Downing Center Court.
The remainder of Gerocarni’s charges were dropped and dismissed.
Augusto Gerocarni, 29, who is listed as an agent for Ray White in Woollahra, was arrested at his home in Bondi Junction last September
The attack took place on June 29, 2022 at Gerocarni’s apartment in Bondi Junction.
Gerocarni had punched Ms Bennett on the side of the face after an argument over her passport for an upcoming holiday, the court heard.
During the scuffle, Gerocarni also grabbed his former partner’s wrist, causing her to drop her phone, which was damaged upon landing.
The real estate agent remains free on bail and will appear in court again next week.
The apprehended domestic violence order also remains in effect.
Ms Bennett, who works as a model and nurse, was in a relationship with Gerocarni for three-and-a-half years before it ended in June last year.
She had lived with him in his unit in Bondi Junction and in another apartment in the same suburb.
Gerocarni had worked for an independent contractor of Ray White since 2016.
His Instagram account, now deleted, was once full of photos of the sale of multimillion-dollar homes in Sydney’s affluent east.
Gerocarni and Mrs. Bennett are pictured together