Controversial Sydney businessman Salim Mehajer has been slapped with another charge, hours after he allegedly assaulted a taxi driver and attempted to steal his EFTPOS machine in a bizarre incident outside The Star casino.
The former Auburn deputy mayor was earlier charged with assault occasioning actually bodily harm and larceny, a police statement said, and then charged with allegedly assaulting a 30-year-old woman.
Police were called to The Star casino in Pyrmont about 4.30am after it was reported a man allegedly stole an EFTPOS machine and a mobile phone from the taxi he was in before attacking the driver.
The 38-year-old driver was allegedly struck in the face, and received an injury to his nose.
Officers from Sydney City Local Area Command later arrested Mr Mehajer, 30, at the intersection of William and Bourke Street, Darlinghurst.
He was taken to Day Street Police Station and charged with assault. He was given conditional bail and is due to appear before Downing Centre Local Court on April 26.
Later this evening, police said they had charged a 30-year-old man after he allegedly used the driver's door of a Porsche to assault a woman in James Lane, injuring her hand.
Mr Mehajer was slapped with a four-month suspension from council in January last year after failing to inform other councillors that he owned a building in Auburn when debating whether the area should be rezoned.
He has emphatically denied lobbying a councillor to change his vote to help him win a multi-million dollar property contract.
Mr Mehajer faced questions into alleged misconduct by the now-defunct Auburn council during an inquiry in June last year.
A number of former Auburn councillors, including Mr Mehajer, were accused of making planning and development decisions to benefit themselves or their families, before the council was sacked last February.
Mr Mehajer again came under fire mid-last year after videos surfaced showing him threatening to rape his estranged wife and her parents.
He dismissed the footage as not "real news" after A Current Affair revealed the two videos apparently filmed by himself from within a car and sent to his former partner, Aysha Learmonth, whom he married in a lavish ceremony last year.
In one video he screams into the camera: "Aysha, you've got five minutes to give me a call. If you don't call me in five minutes I'm going to rape your mum. Your mum and your f---ing dad. Call me now."
In the second video Mr Mehajer speaks in Arabic and continues to yell abuse at Ms Learmonth.
The footage was aired days after Mr Mehajer made headlines for a bizarre motivational video posted to his Facebook page that shows him driving a Ferrari and a voiceover asking viewers if they want to become "an inspiration" and "make it to the top".