{"id":341032,"date":"2025-12-11T05:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341032\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:43:15","slug":"son-of-afl-great-identified-as-a-rapist-as-order-lifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341032\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of AFL great identified as a rapist as order lifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Silvagni has been revealed as the high-profile rapist in a case previously suppressed. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

The son of AFL great Stephen Silvagni can now be identified as the man from a high-profile family who was convicted of rape.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tom Silvagni’s identity had been suppressed throughout his rape trial but the order was lifted on Thursday by Victorian County Court Judge Andrew Palmer.<\/p>\n

Silvagni, the youngest son of Stephen, was on December 5 convicted of two counts of rape.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Stephen
\n Stephen Silvagni (left) and wife Jo Silvagni, were fixtures at their son Tom’s trial. (James Ross\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

He had denied he digitally raped his friend’s girlfriend at his Melbourne home in the early hours of January 14, 2024.<\/p>\n

The jury was told the woman had consensual sex with her boyfriend at the house but then he organised an Uber and left the property shortly before 2am.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Silvagni then lied, telling the woman her boyfriend would be returning upstairs because his Uber had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

But it was Silvagni who went into the dark bedroom a short time later and pretended to be the woman’s boyfriend before digitally raping her twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the days after, he doctored an Uber receipt to make it look like the victim’s boyfriend had left the house after 2.30am.<\/p>\n

Silvagni was first charged with rape in June 2024 but his lawyers successfully sought to have his case suppressed in the magistrates court.<\/p>\n

He was ordered to stand trial in February 2025 following a committal hearing and his defence once again applied for the suppression to continue.<\/p>\n

A County Court judge overturned the suppression in May but Silvagni’s lawyers quickly appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The justice ruled in his favour in August and Silvagni’s identity was suppressed for his two-week trial in late November.<\/p>\n

\"Jo
\n Tom’s mother Jo Silvagni is a well-known TV and Melbourne personality. (Julian Smith\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Media were also prohibited from publishing any information that could identify the Silvagni family, including any references to the AFL.<\/p>\n

Silvagni, who worked as an AFL player agent at Kapital Sports Group, is the brother of St Kilda player Jack. \u00a0<\/p>\n

His father Stephen is a two-time premiership player for the Carlton Football Club and was inducted into both the AFL and Carlton Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His mother Jo Silvagni is a well-known Australian television personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tom Silvagni will face a pre-sentence hearing on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/p>\n

National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Silvagni has been revealed as the high-profile rapist in a case previously suppressed. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS) The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[4764,4765,638,64,63,55,4766,639,1348,3355,3359,44,3356,3354,3357,85,3358,1346],"class_list":{"0":"post-341032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-aap","9":"tag-aapnews","10":"tag-afl","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australian-football-league","14":"tag-australian-news","15":"tag-australianfootballleague","16":"tag-breaking-news","17":"tag-daily-news","18":"tag-global-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-news-app","21":"tag-news-headlines","22":"tag-news-today","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-today-news","25":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}