Brazilian gay pornstar accused of secretly filming tryst with Sydney lover in guilty plea backflip
An Insta-famous Brazilian and amateur gay porn star who admitted to posting revenge porn of his former Sydney boyfriend online now wants to withdraw his guilty plea, and is out on bail.
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A Brazilian amateur gay porn star has walked free on bail as he tries to reverse his guilty plea for secretly filming his former Sydney boyfriend in bed.
The backflip comes months after Fabricio Da Silva Claudino’s ex-partner tearfully revealed his humiliation upon discovering the explicit vision had been promoted to tens of thousands of people online, telling his sentencing hearing: “my dignity was sold for $12.99.”
The Insta-famous tourist admitted in court to illegally recording himself having sex with his lover at his Surry Hills home last year before uploading the video to paid porn site OnlyFans.
But Da Silva Claudino will apply to formally withdraw his guilty pleas to a raft of revenge porn charges, including taking and distributing intimate images without consent and 15 counts of obscene exposure, at a hearing in December.
The 32-year-old was granted $5000 bail in September and ordered to live at Thirlmere in Sydney’s southwest. He must report daily to Campbelltown police station under a string of strict bail conditions.
Da Silva Claudino must surrender his passport, can’t approach international airports or his victim, and is banned from using all social media, “in particular Twitter and Instagram.”
While previously on bail, the 32-year-old filmed himself masturbating on the balcony of his Chalmers Street apartment — in view of a Sydney high school — which got him thrown back behind bars.
His ex-partner, who thought he’d met the man of his dreams while on holiday in Brazil, may now have to recount his traumatising experience while giving evidence at a future hearing.
“This was sexual exploitation… this was domestic violence,” the man said in a victim impact statement.
The victim, who had guarded his sexuality, now lies awake at night worrying about being recognised in the tapes and losing his job.
In July he described himself as “a grown man afraid of the outside world.”
“My image was taken and rebranded. I knew that wasn’t me, but I was made to look cheap, and I started to believe that maybe I was,” the man told Downing Centre Local Court.
“Sometimes my hands shake so much I hide them in my pockets… I never felt far off breaking point.
“I don’t even enjoy my life, I just live it.”
The victim said he paid for Da Silva Claudino’s one-way ticket to Sydney in July 2019 after the couple met on Ipanema Beach and fell in love.
But when their five-month relationship ended, Da Silva Claudino stayed in Australia, supporting himself by posing nude for life drawing classes and posting raunchier content for his army of online subscribers.
The former Emirates flight attendant filmed four minutes of consensual sex on his iPhone at the pair’s Marrickville home last July.
He also uploaded multiple graphic images exposing the victim‘s genitals to his “Fabricio Monkey” OnlyFans account, which Da Silva Claudino promoted to his 100,000 Twitter followers and nearly 30,000 Instagram followers.
“My face became nothing more than a promotional tool… my tattoos, which I used to wear proudly, now feel like branding,” the victim said.
“I felt dirty… I lost my identity forever.”
Australian Federal Police officers arrested Da Silva Claudino at Sydney Airport last September as he got off a flight from Melbourne.
Da Silva Claudino ultimately pleaded guilty to two counts of taking intimate images of his victim without consent and five counts of distributing them while the Crown withdrew four similar charges.
But while on bail, Da Silva Claudino posted videos of himself exposing his penis on his balcony, on a footpath and in Prince Alfred Park.
He was taken back into custody and in June pleaded guilty to 15 counts of obscene exposure and one offensive behaviour charge for the acts committed in Surry Hills between September 2019 and February.
Da Silva Claudino also admitted to destroying a T-shirt and possessing anabolic steroids.
In March, a GoFundMe page set up by supporters to raise $8000 for Da Silva Claudino’s legal fees was taken down after it breached the website’s terms and conditions through the use of misleading statements.