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The 29-year-old YouTuber and rapper alias Yung Filly, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, was arrested and taken into custody in Brisbane on Tuesday, and extradited to Perth on Wednesday. He has appeared in court after being accused of sexually assaulting and choking a woman in her Perth hotel room after a show. This is after he performed at a venue in Hillarys, a northern coastal suburb of the capital of Western Australia, on 28 September.
“This investigation is ongoing and Sex Assault Squad detectives urge anyone with information relating to this matter, or any similar incidents, to call Crime Stoppers,” Western Australia Police said in a statement. Filly appeared before Perth Magistrates’ Court on Thursday charged with four counts of sexual penetration without consent, three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, and one count of impeding a person’s normal breathing or circulation by applying pressure on, or to, their neck.
The social media star rose to fame as a member of the YouTube collective Beta Squad as well as Sidemen. He has since pivoted to a music career as a rap artist and won a MOBO Award for best media personality in 2021 alongside his Beta Squad colleague Chunkz. He was touring his music at the time of the alleged assault.
The case was adjourned and he was granted conditional bail, which included a ban on contacting his alleged victim, or posting on social media about the case to his millions of followers, ABC reported. Filly fronts BBC shows Hot Property and Yung Filly’s Celeb Lock-In, and also appeared on Channel 4’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off in 2022.
