A prominent Australian entertainment and sports manager can now be publicly identified as a convicted rapist after his legal team withdrew a bid to keep his name suppressed, following a jury verdict finding him guilty of two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

Ralph Carnovale-Carr, 66, was found guilty by a jury on July 28 after a two-week trial in Melbourne. Carnovale-Carr rose to prominence in the 1990s managing singer-songwriter Tina Arena, whom he later married for four years, before moving into sports management, where he signed Richmond AFL star Dustin Martin as a marquee client. Neither Arena nor Martin has been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the case.

News organizations had been barred from naming Carnovale-Carr for more than three years as the case moved through the courts, under a series of suppression orders granted on mental health grounds, the same basis previously used to withhold the identity of convicted rapist Tom Silvagni. Judicial officers had accepted evidence that Carnovale-Carr's psychological condition would deteriorate if he was publicly named, with his psychiatrist, Jacqueline Rakov, previously testifying that he posed a risk to himself and that the charges had already........

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