International model Jed Texas has been accused of duping his Australian girlfriend out of $150,000 while behind bars in an Indonesian prison.
Texas, 34, real name Jed Texas Higgins, was released from notorious Kerobokan Prison on March 26 after spending three-and-a-half years banged-up abroad.
But he allegedly continued to pretend he was in the Bali jail in a series of messages to his Aussie lover, Nadine Caller, long after he was deported to the UK.
Ms Caller kept sending Texas money weeks after his release as he continued to feed her lies about needing the cash to bribe corrupt jail officials to secure an earlier jail release.
In a string of Instagram messages, Texas told Ms Caller in April he needed more money to pay for ‘remissions’ to jail officials who would supposedly slash months off his jail sentence.
Texas claimed to be set a September 26 release date – but was actually already back on UK soil.
Indonesian authorities confirmed to Daily Mail Australia this week Texas was deported back to England a day after his release in March, and was pictured at the airport as he was escorted out the country.
‘We have deported him through I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in 27 March 2024 night on Qatar Airways enroute Denpasar London via Doha,’ officials stated.
Nadine Caller and Jed Texas in happier times
Jed Texas poses with gifts supplied by his supposed girlfriend Nadine Caller
‘Based on Indonesian regulation, Jed has been blacklisted to enter Indonesia for at least six months, and could be extended.’
Ms Caller, who met Texas in 2018 on Tinder, claimed she had long suspected her boyfriend had been duping her while behind bars.
She provided Daily Mail Australia with multiple receipts detailing large transfers of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to accounts she was told belonged to prison staff who had to be bribed.
The Melbourne woman estimated she had transferred up to $150,000 in total to secure her lover’s safekeeping and early release.
She also lavished gifts on him while behind bars, providing phones and paying guards to allow her to participate in unauthorised conjugal visits inside the notorious prison.
‘As a scammer does, they love bomb you and I am out 150K for remission payments to get him out earlier,’ Ms Caller told Daily Mail Australia.
‘It sounds like bulls*** but I have everything stored on my phone.’
Texas (centre) is seen with Indonesian officials as he was deported out of Bali on March 27
Texas’s mugshot after his arrest in Bali
Texas with Indonesian officials on his last day in Bali before he was deported to the UK
Ms Caller compared her ordeal with the Netflix program ‘The Tinder Swindler’, which tells the story of a scammer who posed as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul to woo women online before conning them out of millions of dollars.
‘It’s pretty much the same thing, but from prison,’ she said.
‘He was asking me for more money to get him out of prison, so I’ve paid money to get him early remission to get out.’
Ms Caller suspects she is not the only woman Texas has used to obtain so-called remission payments, with another woman contacting her recently to warn her he had been released from jail.
‘She’s said he’s trying to dupe her. It’s always older women with money,’ she said. ‘She told me he’d been lying to me and that she’d seen recent pictures of him holidaying with his mum.’
Ms Caller said while she previously believed the money she transferred had all gone to corrupt officials, she now suspected Texas had access to the accounts.
‘100 percent I think he is doing this. And I think 100 percent there are others like me out there,’ Ms Caller said.
However, she also experienced first hand corruption within the Bali jail system.
‘I sat in an office with one of these (officials) who took my money in front of me and then I had sex in the prison. It was like $2000 Australian,’ she said.
Texas and Nadine Caller had met on Tinder in 2018
Texas and Nadine Caller
Ms Caller claimed Texas would extract more money from her with claims he was sick and needed to pay to go to hospital.
‘When I started pulling back and told him I didn’t believe him, that’s when he stopped texting me,’ she said.
‘As much as I want to believe people, I’m smart enough to know when they’re scamming me.’
Texas has since blocked Ms Caller on Instagram and has refused to answer her questions. He did not respond to further questions from Daily Mail Australia.
Text messages seen by Daily Mail Australia show Texas claiming to have received time-off his sentence by becoming a Muslim.
‘My gut was telling me he was a liar, but I wanted to believe it,’ Ms Caller said. ‘And that’s what he preys on.’
Texas claimed to be in jail while back in the UK
Message shows Texas asking for more cash to bribe guards, while free from jail
Nadine Caller claimed she was ‘love bombed’ by Texas
Fund transfers performed by Nadine Caller for Texas
Ms Caller said she had gone so far as to take her own children into the prison to visit Texas.
‘I feel like such an idiot … But I have to take a stand. I have to. This is not my first rodeo. If I don’t do this I’m dead. Women like me cannot take this anymore,’ she said.
‘He told me he loved me, can’t wait to see me. It was all a lie … I’m so sad for him in so many ways.’
Texas was discovered by talent scouts as a teenager in North London when he was a street punk, and shot to fame after he modelled in gay magazine Attitude.
He was immediately scouted by the famous model agency Elite Management and sent on assignments in New York, Stockholm and Marrakesh.
His rapid rise to stardom saw him party with fashion legend Kate Moss and splashed across the cover for Men’s Health magazine.
He went on to work for fashion luminaries including Tom Ford, Burberry and Versace while he walked international catwalks for fashion weeks in Milan, Paris and New York and appeared in highbrow fashion spreads for Vogue and GQ magazines.
In Australia he was listed with top Australian model agent Chic Management in Sydney’s trendy suburb of Woollahra and modelled for Myer.
Jed Texas had been a top model before his arrest
Jed Texas was deported back to the UK
During a raid on his villa in April 2020, Indonesian Police claimed they found the drugs hidden in nine plastic bags.
According to police, Texas admitted that he bought the marijuana for $60 from an unknown man in the Kuta region of the holiday island during lockdown.
Indonesia is infamous for its brutal drugs laws.
The Australian ringleaders of the Bali Nine heroin smuggling ring, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad in 2015 despite being model prisoners since their arrest in 2005.
Texas admitted his guilt and via video link from jail, he told Denpasar District Court his actions had left him ‘in pain and shrouded with shame’.
Police claim that during the raid, which was triggered by a tip-off, Texas fled from his bedroom into the bathroom and attempted to flush the drugs down the toilet.
Texas told the court that he treated his anxiety and mental illness by smoking weed and was drug dependent.
‘I couldn’t go home (during the pandemic) so I bought a lot of marijuana to relieve my anxiety,’ he said then.
The model was also slapped with a fine of about $109,000.
‘I admit that my using marijuana in Indonesia is against the law,’ Texas told the court.
‘I am very sorry. I knew it was illegal, but I didn’t think the sentence would be so high like this. I use it to treat psychological disorders
‘This case has left me with constant pain and shame. My family was affected too. I never thought at all about breaking the law when I vacationed in Bali.’
