EXCLUSIVE
Troubled Onlyfans teen Paris Ow-Yang’s new American boyfriend has been acquitted of a rape allegation, Daily Mail Australia can reveal.
Rocket Stickney, 29, was facing trial next year in District Court for sexual intercourse without consent until the charge was suddenly dropped.
The rape allegation had been hanging over Stickney for the past 18 months, but late last month the Crown withdrew the charge.
For legal reasons, no further details about the alleged rape can be revealed.
Stickney remains the subject of an interim detained violence order that accompanied the rape charge as it progressed through the courts.
Ow-Yang, 19, and Stickney, reportedly a former US Navy SEAL, were seen together on Thursday, the day after his own headline-making appearance in court.
She was convicted Wednesday of assault, intimidation and destruction of property worth approximately $1,500 during a drunken domestic violence rampage.
Heavily tattooed Stickney towered over Ow-Yang as they foraged for food in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and took their dachshund for a walk.
Rocket Stickney, the new American boyfriend of troubled Onlyfans teen Paris Ow-Yang, has been cleared of a disturbing rape allegation, Daily Mail Australia can reveal. The couple is pictured on Thursday.
Heavily tattooed Stickney towered over Ow-Yang as they foraged for food in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Thursday and took their dachshund for a walk.
Ow-Yang wore the same white top she wore to court the day before, but she paired it with a short skirt and flip-flops, instead of gray pants, a black jacket, and J’Adior heels.
Waverley Local Court heard that Ow-Yang had turned up at her mother Amanda’s home in Double Bay at around 9pm on November 7 and had gone berserk in a terrifying incident she could not remember.
An enraged Ow-Yang had repeatedly called her mother a ‘moron’ and then threatened to take her own life and plunged two kitchen knives into the floor.
Solicitor Michael Bowe said his client suffered from a litany of mental health problems stemming from her parents’ separation as a child.
Ow-Yang, whose father is neurosurgeon Michael Ow-Yang, had been diagnosed with conditions including depression, anxiety, ADHD and an eating disorder.
He had repeatedly self-harmed, drank excessively and shopped as a result of pain, shock and trauma.
Bowe said Ow-Yang had 1.3 million followers on TikTok and 350,000 on Instagram, but did not mention the Onlyfans account the private school girl started as soon as she became an adult.
He said Ow-Yang suffered a “whole series” of mental health issues arising from her parents’ separation when she was around 13.
Ow-Yang was found guilty Wednesday of assault, intimidation and destruction of property worth approximately $1,500 during an act of intoxicated domestic violence.
Ow-Yang was wearing the same white top she wore to court the day before, but she paired it with a short skirt and flip-flops, instead of gray pants, a black jacket, and J’Adior heels.
She never recovered from that split and her problems were not helped by a brief relationship with nightclub king Julian Tobias, 44.
Tobias had left Ow-Yang upon his return from a holiday abroad at the end of last year, just months after they started dating.
A source said at the time that the relationship, which began when Ow-Yang was 17, was doomed to fail because the couple had nothing in common.
Ow-Yang attributed a drunken car accident in October 2023 to the emotional turmoil of the romance that ended suddenly.
After drowning his “pain and pain” in alcohol for nine hours, Ow-Yang had crashed his $50,000 black Mercedes into another Mercedes worth $150,000 in Point Piper.
He later surpassed 0.213, more than four times the legal limit for a P-plater.
Ow-Yang was found guilty of drink-driving and fined $1,000 along with a two-year community corrections order.
On Wednesday, Bowe said Ow-Yang now had a boyfriend, whom she did not name but claimed was supportive while she worked to get her life back in order.
“She has a partner who is in the US military, he is a stable influence, although the last partner she had was not,” Bowe told Magistrate Paul Mulroney.
“I’ve talked to him on the phone and he seems like a pretty good guy.”
Waverley Local Court heard that Ow-Yang had turned up at her mother Amanda’s home in Double Bay and gone mad in a terrifying incident she could not remember. She is pictured outside the courthouse.
Stickney has previously been described as a member of the US Navy’s Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) teams, a special operations force separate from the military.
He was not in court and it was not revealed what he is doing in Australia.
Stickney had not been allowed to leave the country since the middle of last year, when he was accused of rape.
He first faced a magistrate in Parramatta on July 1, 2023, on a single charge of sexual intercourse without consent and four days later was the subject of a detained violence order which police sought at Downing Center Local Court.
Under his bail conditions, Stickney was ordered to surrender his US passport, not leave Australia at any time and not apply for another international travel document.
He was also required to report to Bondi police station every Wednesday, live at a designated address and not come into contact with the woman named in the AVO or any other prosecution witnesses.
Stickney pleaded not guilty to the rape charge on February 22 of this year and reaffirmed that plea on April 5 when he was arraigned in Downing Center District Court.
The case was set for trial on February 24 next year, but when Stickney appeared before Judge John Pickering on November 26, the Crown withdrew the charge.
Ow-Yang, whose father is neurosurgeon Michael Ow-Yang, had been diagnosed with conditions including depression, anxiety, ADHD and an eating disorder.
The Director of Public Prosecutions indicated that no further proceedings would be carried out, but the AVO application is ongoing.
Stickney was not present when that matter was last mentioned at Downing Center Local Court on November 20 and was adjourned until March.
A PDP spokeswoman said the office would not explain why the charge was dropped.
“The reasons for the decision to drop a charge are based on prosecutorial guidelines and are legally privileged,” he said.
“As such, we politely decline to comment.”
Stickney and Ow-Yang were previously photographed on December 7 walking around Bondi with their father.
On Wednesday, Mulroney declined to address Ow-Yang’s latest offense under the mental health law provisions.
Mulroney said that while she sympathized with people suffering from mental health problems, Ow-Yang had not always paid adequate attention to hers.
“It appears that in this situation Ms Ow-Yang has at times been much less responsible in terms of caring for her mental health,” he said.
“In my opinion, there needs to be greater assurance that Ms Ow-Yang will comply with mental health treatment.”
Bowe urged Mulroney not to record a conviction after she pleaded guilty to one count of common assault, one count of intimidation and one count of destruction of property.
“She’s only 19,” he said. “She has the world in front of her.”
Mulroney granted Bowe’s request and instead imposed a 15-month probation order.
Under the terms of that order, Ow-Yang must comply with a mental health treatment plan and abstain from alcohol.
In sentencing, Mulroney said that “domestic violence is a poison in our community” and warned Ow-Yang that if he committed another similar crime he would likely go to jail.
Mulroney also placed Ow-Yang on an arrest warrant for violence.