Ultra-woke AFL WAG Dee Salmin has slammed Fairfax Media’s coverage of the Silvagni family’s reaction to son Tom’s stunning rape conviction. 

The AFL WAG, 29, who is dating Collingwood captain Darcy Moore, shared an image on Saturday of a Fairfax media headline which had been crossed out and replaced with another headline.

The original headline read ‘AFL Great Stephen Silvagni Speaks Out After Son Faces Court’.

But the amended version was much more inflammatory.

‘Convicted rapist Tom Silvagni’s family ignore victim statement and claim rapist son is innocent after being found guilty of rape,’ the post read. 

Silvagni, the 23-year-old son of Melbourne celebrity couple Stephen and Jo Silvagni, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman inside his family’s luxurious home in the east Melbourne suburb of Balwyn North in January 2024.

His victim, who legally cannot be named, read aloud a victim impact statement to the court on Friday, as Silvagni watched on via video link from remand.

In her impact statement the victim said Silvagni could no longer deny what he had done to her.

Dee shared a post created by Tarang Chawla who altered a Fairfax Media headline to ‘help’ the outlet

Dee is going out with Collingwood captain Darcy Moore

She has developed a reputation for speaking out about her very ‘woke’ views

Silvagni’s parents, Stephen and Jo Silvagni, have maintained their son’s innocence throughout the trial

Ms Salmin shared the Instagram story following the court hearing, blasting the entire Silvagni family over the episode. 

The post was originally created by Tarang Chawla who claimed to have uploaded it only to ‘help’ Fairfax strengthen its coverage. 

‘Hello Fairfax Media, I thought I might give you some help,’ Chawla wrote. 

‘It’s not important how great your dad is at sport when you are a convicted rapist which is what Tom Silvagni now is. 

‘The family was not present for the victim’s impact statement and outside court maintained their son is innocent. 

‘Let’s maybe try to improve reporting?’ 

Silvagni was found to have got into bed where his victim was sleeping and pretended to be her boyfriend as he digitally raped her. 

His identity was suppressed from the time he was first charged in June 2024, with lawyers arguing that publication could harm his mental health.

Judge Andrew Palmer lifted the order on Thursday, saying it was no longer necessary after the trial and given Silvagni would be closely monitored in custody.

Silvagni, 23, was found guilty of raping a woman following a 10-day trial 

His victim said Silvagni could no longer deny what he had done to her in a victim impact statement read before the court

Judge Palmer said Silvagni had to come to grips with what he had done.

‘At some point he will have to reconcile himself to the reality that he has committed these offences and there is media interest,’ Judge Palmer said on Thursday.

During the nearly 10-day trial, Crown prosecutor Jeremy McWilliams told jurors the rapes were committed ‘not through threats, not through force… but through deception,’ with Silvagni impersonating his friend to trick the woman.

Salmin has developed a reputation for speaking out about her very ‘woke’ views.

In July last year, she was labelled incredibly woke for her explanation of why she doesn’t want to live with Darcy.

Dee, who hosts Triple J radio’s The Sunday Hook Up sex education programme, went into detail about their romance on the ABC show, Ladies, We Need To Talk… Back.

‘I don’t live with my partner at the moment and we have such different, independent, busy lives,’ she said.

‘We get to have so much of what we had when we were still single in our relationship. But I wonder how much you can actually upkeep that when you do end up living together.’

‘So much of it is hetero-dynamic learnt behaviours you might fall into.’