FBoy Island Australia contestant Riccardo Valenza has been hospitalised twice and placed on a soft food diet after he was assaulted while in jail.
The reality TV star, 31, has been charged with 47 offences involving 12 women, according to The Courier Mail.
He allegedly drugged one woman and recorded sexual acts without her consent, the Brisbane Supreme Court heard during a bail hearing on Wednesday.
Barrister Nathan Turner said Valenza had been assaulted on two occasions while in custody.
‘He received multiple facial fractures, but doesn’t evidence the need for urgent surgery or any significant treatment, apart from being on a soft diet for four to six weeks,’ he said.
‘He’s now got an acute awareness of the need to comply with these court conditions on his release if he’s granted bail.’
FBoy Island Australia contestant Riccardo Valenza, 31, (pictured) has been hospitalised twice and placed on a soft food diet after he was assaulted while in jail
The Queensland veterinarian, who is from Mooloolaba, has been accused of offending while on bail and on good behaviour bonds.
His charges include 14 counts of rape, seven counts of observations or recordings in breach of privacy, and four counts of sexual assault.
Multiple stalking-type offences, as well as one count each of possessing drugs, possessing scheduled medicine or hazardous poisons, and stupefying in order to commit an indictable offence are also included in the charges.
Police allege Valenza solicited sexual activities for money with multiple women via social media between July 2023 and November 2025, before allegedly grooming some of the women and later assaulting them.
During the bail hearing, barrister Mr Turner said his client was also accused of non-consensual sexual activity with three women, and harassment and stalking-type behaviour against 10 women on social media.
‘Some of them are complainants who at the start of communications were willing and cooperative and offered nudes or videos of themselves in exchange for money,’ Mr Turner said.
‘Then at some stage they decided, because of the nature of his contact or otherwise, to stop that type of transactional relationship, and the allegations include that for some of those he persisted with his communications in an abusive or threatening way.’
Crown prosecutor Dani Giorgio opposed bail, saying Valenza had previously breached bail and was unlikely to abide by future bail conditions.
The reality TV star has been charged with 47 offences involving 12 women, according to The Courier Mail
Valenza is facing two counts of previously breaching bail, with police allegedly finding him in possession of more than one phone despite the conditions of bail he was granted after he was first charged in November.
‘He has a criminal history of offending against two other women. He was sentenced to a good behaviour bond,’ Ms Giorgio said.
‘He was subject to those orders when he committed the alleged offences against [two women].’
Valenza was sentenced to the good behaviour bonds without convictions being recorded in the magistrates’ court after he was charged for offences similar to the harassment allegations he now faces.
Justice Martin Burns was not satisfied Valenza would comply with the conditions and refused his bail.
The proposed conditions included a $25,000 surety, no phone, geographic restrictions and reporting to police multiple times a week.
Valenza will next appear before Maroochydore Magistrates Court on June 15.
FBoy Island was produced for Foxtel’s Binge streaming service and the local version of the US dating format was hosted by influencer Abbie Chatfield.
Barrister Nathan Turner said Valenza had been assaulted on two occasions while in custody. Pictured on FBoy Island with his fellow castmates and host Abbie Chatfield (pictured)
The show followed three women searching for love among 24 men whose true character and intentions they had to work out.
Twelve of the men were secretly ‘nice guys’ who wanted a relationship and the other half ‘FBoys’ – or ‘f*** boys’ – characterised as womanisers competing for money.
If the women chose a ‘nice guy’ after 10 rounds of elimination the couple divided $50,000 but if they chose an ‘FBoy’, he could keep the total prize.
Valenza did not progress to the final stages of the program which ran from May 30 to June 26, 2023.