The Lazarus family own a number of well-known licensed premises including Soho and The Eastern at Bondi Junction. Lazarus was convicted by a jury in February over the sexual assault of 18-year-old woman in an alleyway behind the Soho Nightclub on Victoria Street in Potts Point in May 2013.

Lazarus approached his victim on the dance floor introducing himself as a part owner of the venue. He then offered to introduce her to the DJ before saying instead they would go into a VIP area. But Lazarus took the woman, who was a virgin, to the lane way where he anally raped her before demanding she put her name in his phone.

In handing down the sentence, Judge Huggett described the attack as the "spontaneous and opportunistic" actions of a young man who felt a sense of "power and entitlement" by virtue of his family's connection to the Soho club. His victim told the court, via a victim impact statement read on her behalf, that she would never be the person she was before the attack.

"I thought that once I left the alleyway the pain would go away ... but it didn't," the woman's statement said.

"Everything that made me who I was stayed in that alleyway."