Victoria Police said detectives are investigating an alleged historical sexual assault in Melbourne in 2010, as Ruby Rose publicly accused Katy Perry of sexual assault in a Threads post on Sunday night. Rose said the alleged incident happened when the two were in their early 20s.
The force said Melbourne sexual offenses and child abuse investigation team detectives are handling the case and that police were told the incident occurred at a licensed premises in Melbourne’s CBD. Rose, 40, and Perry, 41, have become the center of a claim that moved from social media to a formal police inquiry in the span of days.
Rose later offered a graphic account of what she said happened, writing that Perry “didn’t kiss me” and describing an encounter in which she said Perry “pulled her underwear to the side” and rubbed herself on her face until she vomited. Perry’s representative denied the allegations in a statement to Variety, calling them “categorically false” and “dangerous reckless lies.”
That denial has not stopped the case from moving forward. On Tuesday night, Rose said she had “finalized all of my reports” and would no longer be able to “comment, repost, or talk publicly about any of those cases, or the individuals involved.” She added that the silence was a standard request from police and said it was, in many ways, a relief.
Rose had previously said she was not interested in filing a police report about the alleged incident, making her latest post a clear turn from public accusation to formal process. Victoria Police said the investigation remains ongoing, and the timing puts both women under a microscope at the same moment the claim is shifting from allegation to evidence gathering.
The question now is not whether the accusation is circulating online. It is whether the police investigation produces anything that can be tested beyond the social media posts that brought the case into view.
