British rapper and YouTuber Yung Filly has been found guilty of assault but cleared of raping a young fan he took back to his hotel room after an Australian show.
British rapper and YouTuber Yung Filly has been found guilty of assault but cleared of raping a young fan he took back to his hotel room after an Australian show.
The performer — whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos — was accused of biting, choking, raping and repeatedly slapping a 20-year-old fan in September 2024.
He went on trial in Perth’s District Court, where on Friday a jury found him not guilty of three counts of sexual penetration without consent.
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The jury could not reach a verdict on three other sexual penetration charges.
He was also found not guilty of one assault charge and cleared of impeding the woman’s breathing by applying pressure to her neck.
But Barrientos was found guilty of two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.
The court was told the pair met at Bar1 in Hillarys, in Perth’s northern suburbs, where Yung Filly was performing.
The woman told the court that “at the time he was my idol”.
Barrientos and the woman went back to the Intercontinental hotel, where the complainant told the trial she thought they were arriving at an after-party, but there was none.
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In the entertainer’s room, they engaged in consensual sex until it allegedly turned violent.
Prosecutors alleged the entertainer had bitten the fan, restricted her breathing and left her with bruises and wounds.
The court was told that when she asked him to stop, he continued to violate her.
Prosecutor Danielle Clarke framed Barrientos as an “entitled man” with a “moderate degree of fame”, who was sexually violent towards an impressionable young woman.
“She meant nothing to him,” she said.
Barrientos had pleaded not guilty to all 10 charges and faced a trial starting July 20.
Barrientos admitted to biting the woman on her face, neck and breasts.
“In England we would call it a love bite,” Barrientos told the court.
But he denied that the woman repeatedly told him to stop, or that he had forced her to continue.
Filly’s defence argued the complainant’s evidence was “riddled with inconsistencies, embellishments and outright lies”.
Defence lawyer David Edwardson attacked prosecution claims the woman had been a victim of a powerful man, saying she went to the “hotel of her own free will”.
“She was an adult, and she was perfectly capable of making her own decisions about what she would and wouldn’t do,” he said.
The matter will return to court on August 21 ahead of sentencing for the assault charges, and Barrientos’ bail was continued until that date.
