Walid Assaad: Bikie gangland figure’s odd friendship with trans makeup influencer that is the talk of Sydney’s underworld as he receives thousands in TikTok ‘diamonds’ for dance videos

A bizarre friendship between the brother of a murdered Sydney hitman and a trans makeup influencer from the US has stunned the city’s underworld.

Walid Assaad, whose brother Hamad ‘The Executioner’ Assaad was murdered in a gangland hit seven years ago, can be seen dancing wildly on TikTok livestreams to entertain US-based social media millionaire Jeffree Star.

In return, the makeup mogul, who runs his own eponymous cosmetics company, is said to have given Assaad up to $40,000 a week in TikTok diamonds over the past month, which can be converted back into cash.

Until Thursday, Assaad’s TikTok account WheresWallysWorld, which has more than 36,000 followers, used a photo of Mr Star wearing a pink balaclava as his profile picture, and a bio that read “STAR FAM” along with two gold star emojis.

The close relationship, which has seen the pair spend hours together online in TikTok livestreams, has stunned Sydney’s hyper-masculine underworld fraternity.

“He’s belly dancing for Jeffree,” said former Nomads bikie Moudi Tajjour, who used to chat with Assaad online. ‘There’s something going on there.

“I don’t know what you’re doing, Wally, but you sold your soul to the devil, buddy.”

Assaad previously posted a video of himself with Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed, who lost an eye in another gangland hit that left his brother Omar dead at an Auburn gym in May 2022.

Assaad, 35, has also had several run-ins with police in recent years and has been the subject of a firearms ban since 2016.

He is currently accused of terrorizing his family at his mother’s home in Villawood in Sydney’s west, allegedly turning on her and two other relatives.

Fairfield Local Court heard this week that he was accused of arming himself with a knife to intimidate three relatives sitting at the family home during tea time in September 2022.

He is charged with actual bodily harm against Hamad Assaad and DV-related common assault against Basmat and Ahlam Assaad, the court was told on Monday.

Police have now issued arrest warrants against Assaad to protect the three family members from him after the incident.

However, he is also accused of breaching a DV-related AVO in Villawood the following day and subsequently resisting arrest.

He was granted bail on Monday with a ban on all alcohol and non-prescription drugs until the cases appear in court in April 2024.

Police have deployed another AVO against Assaad to protect his other brother Tarek after a rift between the two emerged in March this year.

And in 2022, Assaad accidentally live-streamed a brutal attack on him during a home invasion at his Georges Hall home in Sydney’s west.

He was knocked unconscious when armed thugs burst through the front door and held his girlfriend at gunpoint, ordering her to hand over cash before escaping with armfuls of designer clothes.

Assaad was in the middle of a TikTok livestream with former gangster Tajjour when the attack happened, leaving the reformed biker speechless at the time.

Assaad returned to social media the next day, still dazed, bruised and wearing a neck brace, as he vowed revenge on his attackers.

He says on his social media profile that he is a personal trainer, and court documents show that he is “currently employed with an unknown exact income” but owns his own home with a $2,000 per month mortgage.

“We used to be friends,” Tajjour admitted during a recent TikTok livestream. “I never hung out with him during the day, but we did go live together (on TikTok).

“I had a bad feeling about this guy – then I saw these videos with Jeffree Star.

“There’s no way Wally is going to belly dance for Jeffree unless he’s gotten himself a mansion somewhere.”

Multiple other TikTok accounts have posted clips of Assaad dancing for Jeffree and the couple gifting each other “diamonds.”

One added the caption: “Aussie TikToker Wally shows how far he will go for Jeffree Star’s gifts.” Others posted clips of the huge gifts given to Assaad by Mr Star, with captions like: ‘Jeffree Star goes big on Whereswally’.

TikTok users can buy coins with real money to exchange for diamonds that they can then gift to other users during livestreams, with 16,500 diamonds worth about $400 that can later be redeemed via PayPal.

Recordings of TikTok live streams with Assaad show him getting hundreds of thousands of diamonds in a three-minute ‘TikTok’ battle, and even millions over the course of a night, most of which apparently came from Mr Star.

A follower added: ‘The ‘battles’ consist of just three minutes of banter or challenges or the like between two TikTokers, and the winner is the one most gifted by the viewers.

“It’s money for nothing, so you have to wonder what’s going on offline in the conversations between Wally and Jeffree.”

Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting anything illegal is happening, only that the interactions have sparked interest and curiosity among followers and employees.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Assaad and Mr Star for comment.

Assaad’s brother Hamad, who had ‘Executioner’ tattooed around his neck and was believed responsible for a series of gangland hits, was shot dead in the driveway of his Georges Hall home in 2016.

His suspected killers, Kemel ‘Blackie’ Barakat and Mejid Hamzy, were later themselves executed.