Charlotte Lindström was a Swedish model who was in a relationship with Steven Spaliviero

Charlotte Lindström was a Swedish model who was in a relationship with Steven Spaliviero, a major drug trafficker who was arrested in May 2007 in Australia after a warehouse full of illegal substances was discovered.

In a desperate attempt to prevent her fiancé from being convicted, Charlotte offered $150,000 USD to a hitman to eliminate the key witnesses in the trial and thus free her fiancé. However, the plan fell apart when the supposed hitman turned out to be an undercover police officer, which led to Charlotte being arrested and serving a 4-year prison sentence.

EXCLUSIVE: Sydney's 'real life Breaking Bad' drug kingpin finds new love 15 years after making world headlines when his Swedish model fiancee ordered a 'hit' on witnesses before testifying against him

Steven Spaliviero was an ecstasy and meth kingpin with massive drug factory

Charming strip club owner was caught cooking 44kg of drugs in western Sydney

Fell deeply in love and planned to marry Swedish model Charlotte Lindstrom

Lindstrom was jailed for ordering a murder hit on drug trial witnesses

Couple still in love in separate Sydney jails until Lindstrom deported on release

Spaliviero served 11 years prison and vowed to lead clean new life on parole

With just months left on parole he has found love with beautiful new fiancee

A notorious drug kingpin whose Swedish model fiancée famously ordered a 'hit' on witnesses has found new love.  
Steven Spaliviero - whose ecstasy operation was compared to TV series Breaking Bad - and Charlotte Lindstrom made international headlines when he was jailed over a massive drug haul and she was imprisoned for offering a hitman $200,000 to kill two witnesses.

But four years after his release from prison, Daily Mail Australia can reveal Spaliviero, 56,  has a new woman in his life. 

The reformed drug manufacturer, whose life was luxury cars, yachts, exclusive clubs and drug labs in the Sydney suburbs and the Amazon jungle before he went to jail, is now engaged to Sydney property professional, Emma.
Spaliviero popped the question top his new love while on a romantic world tour over the recent holiday season.   
Spaliviero was engaged to Swedish model Charlotte Lindstrom (above, leaving court in 2008), who was jailed for three years for trying to order a hit on two drug trial witnesses

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Spaliviero has described his whirlwind holiday with his fiancee as a trip '18 years in the making'. 
It was 18 years ago that Spaliviero met Lindstrom, and they embarked on a fateful romance that would see both of them in jail and their doomed relationship making headlines around the globe.
At the time, Lindstrom was a delicate blonde more than 20 years Spaliviero's junior who worked for Sydney's Hilton Hotel and in Merivale's Hemmesphere Bar.
She was jailed in 2007 for three years for offering a 'hitman', who was an undercover cop, $200,000 to purportedly send two witnesses in Spaliviero's drug trial 'to the cemetery'. 
Spaliviero and Lindstrom were engaged to be married, but she was deported after her prison release and he served 11 years in prison and became a mentor and model inmate
Lindstrom claimed Spaliviero ordered the hit, but he was acquitted of the charge and became a model prisoner, with his 16 year sentence reduced on appeal.

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An affidavit from Sydney pub baron Justin Hemmes was tendered to the court describing Lindstrom as 'diligent' and offering to keep her on staff if she were granted bail.
Spaliviero's mother Dolores offered to put up the $2 million Lindstrom's lawyer had propsed as the bail amount.

Lindstrom, who became anorexic in prison, made world news when she turned Crown witness against him on trial, and appeared in court emaciated and wearing a bullet proof vest. 
Nevertheless, she still wanted to marry him and Spaliviero didn't resent her for testifying against him.
'We were deeply in love and we wrote to each other in prison,' he told Daily Mail Australia after his prison release.
Spaliviero knelt down to propose to his girlfriend in Venice's Aman HotelThe proposal was at the same venue where Georgee and Amal Clooney were marriedSpaliviero posted a photo of a the large diamond on his new fiancee's finger with the triumphant declaration, 'She said yes!'
 'The last letter I got from her said 'when this is all over please find me'. She begged me, 'I still want the fairytale'.
'When she went back to Sweden, she was forbidden from contacting me. I didn't know where she was.
'She was like a missing person, but then [a relative of Spaliviero] got a Facebook message from a girl who knew Charlotte under a complete new identity.'
By the the time he was released from jail (he served time in in Silverwater, Goulburn, Cooma and Long Bay prisons) Spaliviero was no longer in love with Lindstrom - and determined to forge a new crime-free life on the outside.
 After a relationship with a young model soon after his release did not last, Spaliviero met Emma, and three days before Christmas last year they left on a holiday to Italy, from where his family migrated to Australia. 
After visiting relatives in northeastern Italy, celebrating New Year's Eve in the Dolomites and skiing in Cortina, Spaliviero then filmed the couple's evening canal ride and then his romantic proposal in Venice.
'From the corner table at the Aman Hotel in Venice, in the same chair that George Clooney, Al Pacino and The Rock have sat , I proposed to the woman I love...,' he wrote on Facebook.

After getting down on one knee and proffering a ring in a jewel box to an overwhelmed but clearly delighted Emma, Spaliviero posted a photo of the large diamond on her finger with the triumphant  declaration, 'She said yes!'.
Spaliviero has enjoyed nights out at some of Sydney's best restauarants, boating on Sydney harbour, travlling around the Australian outback, but also enjoying the 'simple things' of life since his prison release.
He worked as a bartender on a friend's boat, renovated his mother's properties and enjoyed nature, and 'just catching the sunrise over Sydney Harbour' because in prison 'I missed so many'. 
Lindstrom, who became anorexic in prison, made world news when she turned Crown witness against her exCharlotte Lindstrom wasted away while incarcerated in Long Bay's Special Purpose Centre and on her release after three years behind bars was deported back to her native SwedenCharlotte Lindstrom, above on surveillance camera, offered to pay $200,000 to a 'hitman', who was an undercover policeman to have two drug trial witnesses put in 'the cemetery'
He released a book Narco X, which told the story of how he became a drug manufacturer in South America, after growing up in an Italian family in suburban Sydney.
Spaliviero was born with a knack for fixing machines and engineering and after leaving school he travelled to Los Angeles, worked as a luxury car mechanic.
In 1989, he was jailed over a stolen Porsche racket which stripped the cars and sent parts back to Australia.
In California's Avenal State Prison, he met a Dutch drug cook, Igor, who taught him how to make ecstasy from precursor drugs like pseudoephedrine.
Spaliviero was extradited to face charges in Australia over the Porsche racket and while on bail, attempted to put Igor's drug manufacturing lessons to work, but was caught and jailed for conspiring to manufacture ecstasy.
On release, he opened up a gentleman's (strip) club, Joannas, but the business failed and he started manufacturing ecstasy, making thousands of pills each week in warehouses around Sydney. 

Spaliviero travelled to Italy to visit family memebrs and to propose to 'the woman I love', Sydney property professional, Emma
He compared his drug operation with the TV series Breaking Bad, which he watched after leaving prison, and his was massive by comparison.
'You know when they pour in the [chemicals] we had to use a forklift to do that,' he said.
Spaliviero bought precursor chemicals from China, and did meet up with associates of the Sinaloa drug cartel to make a drug lab in a South American jungle.
In 2002, he opened another club, Minx. Charlotte Lindstrom, a Swedish backpacker and model who was working at the Sydney club Hemmesphere, applied for a job there and the two became romantically involved.
They enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle and Lindstrom moved into Spaliviero's waterfront apartment, but he was still on bail facing drug charegs.
In August 2005, he celebrated fiancee Charlotte's 21st birthday at Icebergs in Sydney's Bondi, giving her a $5000 necklace.
But then Spaliviero received a tip off that police were bugging his house and car, and he found a tracker hidden in his bumper bar.
Police would eventually charge Spaliviero with manufacturing 44kg of ecstasy at Riverstone, in northwestern Sydney, and other locations, and imprison him.
In May 2007, Lindstrom was also arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder after she met outside Sydney's Town Hall with undercover police officer 'Rob', posing as a hit man.
Lindfstrom would later claim in court that two witnesses who could tie her fiance to his massive drug enterprise and needed to be silenced, and agreed with 'Rob' that Spaliviero 'definitely' wanted them  'in the cemetery'.

Lindstrom was arrested as she left Town Hall, and imprisoned for three years and ten months in Long Bay's Special Purpose Centre, where she refused to eat.
The Crown appealed against her 'manifestly inadequate' sentence which was increased, and Lindstrom negotiated a plea deal in exchange for a reduction.
At Spaliviero's 2009 trial, he was found not guilty of the conspiracy to murder charge, pleaded guilty to running the Riverstone drug lab, but further drug charges were dropped.
He was sentenced to a maximum 16 and minimum 12 years' prison, reduced to eleven years on appeal.
In prison, Spaliviero said he changed for the better and studied counselling, psychology and life coaching.
He mentored younger inmates and trained with youth counsellor Ken Marslew of Enough is Enough.
He emerged from prison, and doesn't plan on returning, but credited his relatively youthful looks and fitness to 'good genes and 11 years with no alcohol or smoking' while incarcerated.     
'I can't live the lifestyle I used to, but I am happier than I was before. Jail has made me more spiritual,' he said.