{"id":343593,"date":"2025-12-12T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343593\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:31:29","slug":"melbourne-man-tom-silvagni-son-of-afl-great-identified-as-rapist-whose-name-was-suppressed-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343593\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne man Tom Silvagni, son of AFL great, identified as rapist whose name was suppressed | Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Tom Silvagni\u2019s identity had been suppressed throughout his rape trial, but the order was lifted on Thursday by county court judge Andrew Palmer.<\/p>\n

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

He had denied he digitally raped his friend\u2019s girlfriend at his Melbourne<\/a> home in the early hours of 14 January 2024.<\/p>\n

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

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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\u2019s boyfriend before digitally raping her twice.<\/p>\n

In the days after, he doctored an Uber receipt to make it look like the victim\u2019s 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\u2019s lawyers quickly appealed the decision to the supreme court.<\/p>\n

The justice ruled in his favour in August and Silvagni\u2019s identity was suppressed for his two-week trial in late November.<\/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 and former VFL player Ben.<\/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.<\/p>\n

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

His grandfather, Sergio Silvagni, was also a well-known Carlton player.<\/p>\n

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

Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse is available from the following organisations. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect<\/a> (1800 737 732). In the UK, Rape Crisis<\/a> offers support on 0808 500 2222. In the US, Rainn<\/a> offers support on 800-656-4673. Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of AFL great Stephen Silvagni can now be identified as the man from a high-profile Melbourne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-343593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343593","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=343593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}