Isabelle Lagace, porn star turned cocaine trafficker to be deported back to Canada
Isabelle Lagace, ex-porn star and glamorous cruise ship cocaine trafficker is set to be deported back to Canada if she is released at the end of her sentence this weekend.
The 28-year-old has been in a NSW prison since her arrest with fellow French Canadian Melina Roberge on board the luxury MS Sea Princess in Sydney in 2016.
The two young women, who posted Instagram images of themselves at exotic port stops before picking up 95kg of cocaine in Peru en route to Australia, made headlines worldwide with their arrest.
Australian Border Force officers detained Isabelle Lagace and Roberge, then aged 23, and Andre Tamine, 67, after boarding the cruise ship around 6am on August 28, 2016, and finding the drugs in their suitcases. The cocaine was worth around $21 million.
The women, from Quebec, had boarded the luxury cruise ship in Southampton in June 2016.
They had secretly agreed to become drug mules to pay off major debts accrued back in Canada.
This was despite Roberge having worked as an escort for a “sugar daddy” and Isabelle Lagace posing nude in raunchy photo shoots and performing in videos.
Isabelle Lagace, who pleaded guilty soon after her arrest, was sentenced to a maximum seven years and six months jail for attempting to traffic 29kg of the drugs.
However, NSW District Court Judge Kate Traill ordered for her release after a non-parole period of four years and six months.
With time served and backdated to August 28, 2016, this means her release date is February 27, 2021.
Isabelle Lagace is expected to be released by the Federal Attorney-General into the custody of the Department of Home Affairs and deported back to Canada.
Roberge, who is serving a slightly longer sentence on the same charge of attempting to import a commercial quantity of cocaine, is due for release later in May.
During their court hearings, it emerged that the two women had been lured into making the trip with first class cruise tickets worth $20,000, plus $6000 spending money and the promise of more money for delivery.
