EXCLUSIVE Restaurant empire heir Daniel Drakopoulos faces court accused of a brutal attack on his fiancée and the theft of her $40,000 engagement ring Daniel Drakopoulos is a multi-millionaire restaurant heir Charged with choking fiancée, stealing $40 engagement ring Empire includes Manta, favourite of Elton John By Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:07, 21 July 2024 | Updated: 04:08, 21 July 2024 e-mail The son of a multi-millionaire restaurant tycoon has been charged with choking and assaulting his fiancée and stealing her $40,000 engagement ring. Daniel Jackson Drakopoulos, 28, is accused of breaking into his partner's house at night and allegedly throwing her mobile phone against a wall, choking and seriously assaulting her before taking the ring. The 28-year-old former private schoolboy was arrested the morning after the alleged attack and charged at Manly police station, just a short drive from one of his father's famed restaurants.
Daniel is the son of renowned restaurateur Bill Drakopoulos, who owns a string of luxury venues in Sydney 's most elite waterside suburbs. The empire, which has seen him dubbed the 'King of the Waterfront', includes Manta at Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf - a favourite of celebrities including Elton John and Jon Bon Jovi. He also owns Sails on Lavender Bay's harbourside in Sydney's north shore, Ormeggio at The Spit in Mosman, Ventuno on Walsh Bay, and Ripples at four locations around the city.
Daniel and his three siblings, who all work as directors of their father's Sydney Restaurant Group, live an idyllic life flying around the world on luxury escapes to places such as the Maldives, Ibiza, Tokyo and Greece . Police allege that on February 4 Daniel went to the Paddington address of his then-partner and broke into her terraced house. Daniel Drakopoulos (left), pictured with his father Bill (centre) and brother Perry (right), has been charged with choking his fiancée and stealing her $40,000 engagement ring One of Bill Drakopoulos's venues, Aqua, located on Sydney Harbour, is pictured Daniel (left) and members of the Drakopoulos family, whose father Bill (third from left) is known as 'king of the waterfront' in the restaurant trade for his 15 luxury location eateries He then allegedly destroyed or damaged her phone by throwing it against the wall, choked her and assaulted her twice, 'causing physical harm'.
According to court documents, Daniel then allegedly stole the young woman's engagement ring, worth $40,000. He was charged and released on bail to live at his parents' spectacular $10million trophy home at Seaforth on the northern beaches, which boasts panoramic views. Bill Drakopoulos and his wife Kathleen are pictured Police allege Daniel broke into his fiancée's Paddington house (above), choked and assaulted her, smashed her phone and stole her $40,000 engagement ring Daniel Drakopoulos (right) and his brother and father traditionally pose in their swimming shorts every Christmas A graduate from the exclusive St Ignatius College at Riverview, Daniel has more recently developed new ventures to expand his father's hugely successful business beyond its high-end Sydney restaurants.
Along with his younger brother, Daniel is 'growing Drak Hotels, another part of Sydney Restaurant Group', which includes the Coast Hotel at Budgewoi on the NSW Central Coast. Daniel Drakopoulos has been charged with six offences, including intentionally choking a person without consent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, aggravated break and enter, destroying or damaging property and larceny. His case is before the Sydney Downing Centre Local Court.
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