EXCLUSIVE
Troubled teenage OnlyFans star Paris Ow-Yang’s new American boyfriend has been cleared of a rape allegation, Daily Mail Australia can reveal.
Rocket Stickney, 29, was facing a trial next year at the District Court for sexual intercourse without consent until the charge was suddenly dropped.
The rape accusation had been hanging over Stickney for the past 18 months but late last month the allegation was withdrawn by the Crown.
Further details of the alleged rape cannot be revealed for legal reasons.
Stickney is still the subject of an interim apprehended violence order which accompanied the rape charge as it made its way through the courts.
Ow-Yang, 19, and Stickney – reportedly a serving, or former, US Navy SEAL – were seen together on Thursday, the day after her own headline-grabbing appearance in court.
She was convicted on Wednesday of assault, intimidation, and destroying property worth approximately $1,500 during a drunken rampage of domestic violence.
Heavily-tattooed Stickney towered over Ow-Yang as they stepped out for food in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs and took her pet dachshund for a walk.
Ow-Yang was dressed in the same white top she wore to court the previous day but teamed it with a short skirt and slides, instead of grey trousers, black jacket and J’Adior heels.
Waverley Local Court heard Ow-Yang had turned up at her mother Amanda’s home at Double Bay about 9pm on November 7 and run amok in a terrifying incident she could not recall.
An enraged Ow-Yang had repeatedly called her mother a ‘sl**’ then threatened to take her own life and embedded two kitchen knives in the floor.
Solicitor Michael Bowe said his client suffered from a litany of mental health problems stemming from the separation of her parents when she was a child.
Ow-Yang, whose father is neurosurgeon Michael Ow-Yang, had been diagnosed with conditions including depression, anxiety, ADHD and an eating disorder.
She had repeatedly engaged in self-harm, binge drinking and compulsive shopping as a result of grief, shock and trauma.
Mr 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 opened as soon as she became an adult.
He said Ow-Yang suffered a ‘whole series’ of mental health conditions which stemmed from her parents separating when she was about 13.
She had never recovered from that split and her problems had not been helped by a brief relationship with 44-year-old nightclub king Julian Tobias.
Tobias had dumped Ow-Yang upon their return from an overseas holiday late last year, just months after they began dating.
An insider said at the time the relationship, which began when Ow-Yang was 17, was destined to fail because the pair had nothing in common.
Ow-Yang blamed a drunken car crash in October 2023 on the emotional turmoil of the romance suddenly ending.
After drowning her ‘pain and hurt’ in alcohol for nine hours, Ow-Yang had smashed her $50,000 black Mercedes into another Mercedes worth $150,000 in Point Piper.
She subsequently blew 0.213 – more than four times the legal limit for a P-plater.
Ow-Yang was convicted of high-range drinking driving and received a $1,000 fine along with a two-year community corrections order.
On Wednesday, Mr Bowe said Ow-Yang now had a boyfriend, who he did not name but submitted was providing support as she worked to get her life back in order.
‘She has a partner who is in the American army, he is a stable influence, albeit, the last partner she had was not,’ Mr Bowe told magistrate Paul Mulroney.
‘I’ve spoken to him on the phone and he seems like a pretty good bloke.’
Stickney has previously been described as a member of the US Navy Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) Teams, a special operations force separate from the army.
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 at Parramatta on July 1, 2023 on a single count of sexual intercourse without consent and four days later was the subject of an apprehended violence order police applied for in Downing Centre Local Court.
Under his bail conditions, Stickney was ordered to surrender his US passport, not to leave Australia at any time and not to apply for another international travel document.
He was also required to report each Wednesday to Bondi police station, to live at a designated address and not to contact the woman named in the AVO or any other prosecution witness.
Stickney pleaded not guilty to the rape charge on February 22 this year and reaffirmed that plea on April 5 when he was arraigned in Downing Centre District Court.
The case was set down for trial on February 24 next year but when Stickney appeared before Judge John Pickering on November 26 the charge was withdrawn by the Crown.
The Director of Public Prosecutions indicated no further proceedings would take place but the AVO application is ongoing.
Stickney was not present when that matter was last listed in Downing Centre Local Court on November 20 and it was adjourned until March.
A spokeswoman for the DPP said the office would not be explaining why the charge was withdrawn.
‘Reasons for the decision to withdraw a charge are made in accordance with the prosecution guidelines and are legally privileged,’ she said.
‘As such, we politely decline to comment.’
Stickney and Ow-Yang were previously photographed on December 7 strolling in Bondi with her father.
On Wednesday, Mr Mulroney declined to deal with Ow-Yang’s latest offending under mental health provisions of the law.
Mr Mulroney said while he was sympathetic towards people who suffered from mental health issues, Ow-Yang had not always paid appropriate attention to hers.
‘It seems in this situation that Ms Ow-Yang has at times been way less than responsible in terms of attention to her mental health,’ he said.
‘In my view, there needs to be a greater guarantee that Ms Ow-Yang would be compliant with mental health treatment.’
Mr Bowe urged Mr Mulroney not to record a conviction after she pleaded guilty to one count of common assault, one of intimidation and one of destroying property.
‘She’s only 19,’ he said. ‘She’s got the world in front of her.’
Mr Mulroney agreed to Mr Bowe’s request and instead imposed a 15-month conditional release order.
Under the terms of that order, Ow-Yang must comply with a mental health treatment plan and abstain from alcohol.
In sentencing, Mr Mulroney said ‘domestic violence is a poison in our community’ and warned Ow-Yang if she committed another such offence she would likely to go jail.
Mr Mulroney also placed Ow-Yang on an apprehended violence order.
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