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All The Celebrities Who Have Made Allegations Against Katy Perry Amid Police Investigation
Following the bombshell Ruby Rose allegations against Katy Perry, several other celebrity stories have resurfaced.
For most of her career, Katy Perry has been one of pop music’s most beloved and bankable stars.
From I Kissed A Girl to Roar to Firework, she has provided the soundtrack to countless lives, sold hundreds of millions of records, and built a global brand that extends from music into television, fashion, and beyond.
But this week, a comment left in a social media thread has triggered a police investigation — and with it, a flood of resurf aced claims, old interviews, and previously dismissed allegations that are now being viewed in an entirely different light.
Here is a full account of every person who has made an allegation against the singer, from the most serious to the most disputed.
Ruby Rose’s allegation started a police investigation
The current firestorm began on Sunday April 12, when Ruby Rose — the Australian actress best known internationally for Orange Is The New Black and Batwoman — left a comment beneath a Complex Music post about Justin Bieber‘s widely criticised Coachella set.
Katy Perry had commented on the post criticising Bieber’s performance. Rose’s reply was brief and explosive: “Katy Perry assaulted me at Spice Market nightclub in Melbourne. Who gives a s**t what she thinks.”
What followed was a rapid escalation. Rose expanded on her allegation in a series of posts on Threads, describing in graphic detail what she claims happened at the Melbourne nightclub in 2010, when she was in her early twenties.
She said it had taken her nearly two decades to speak publicly about the incident, citing the lasting impact of trauma.
She also revealed a reason she had stayed silent for so long — she claimed Perry had later helped her obtain a US visa by writing letters of recommendation for her application. “So I kept it a secret,” she wrote. “But I did tell ya’ll she wasn’t a good person.”
Perry’s representatives issued an immediate and forceful denial, calling the allegations ‘categorically false’ and ‘dangerous, reckless lies,’ and citing what they described as Rose’s history of making public allegations against multiple people.
Rose responded on Threads: “I have never, ever, made serious public allegations on social media like this.”
On April 13, Rose filed a formal complaint with Australian authorities. The following day, Victoria Police confirmed that detectives from the S**ual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team (SOCIT) — a specialist unit — were investigating a historical s**ual assault reported to have occurred in Melbourne in 2010.
No charges have been filed. Rose has since stated she can no longer speak publicly about the matter while the investigation is active, calling the police’s request ‘quite the relief.’
Anna Kendrick’s 2014 interview viewed very differently now
Long before the current controversy, actress Anna Kendrick appeared on Conan in 2014 and told a story about Katy Perry at the Grammy Awards that drew laughter from the studio audience and was treated as a harmless, humorous celebrity anecdote.
During the interview, Kendrick described an encounter with Perry at the awards ceremony that she called ‘a weird night.’
She told the story of Perry touching her in a way she described as ‘aggressive,’ using language that was explicit but framed entirely as comedy.
The audience laughed. Kendrick leaned into the humor. It was the kind of late-night television moment that disappeared from public consciousness almost immediately.
This week, clips of that interview have gone massively viral — watched millions of times as viewers reassess what Kendrick was actually describing through a very different lens.
What was once treated as a funny story about a quirky celebrity encounter is now being discussed as something considerably more uncomfortable, particularly given that Kendrick herself used the word ‘aggressive’ to describe the interaction.
Importantly, Kendrick has not made any new statements about the situation. She has not filed any complaint, and there is no indication she has sought to reframe or revisit the original account since it was made in 2014. But the clip is circulating, and the debate it has reignited is significant.
Josh Kloss, the Teenage Dream model
In 2019, at the height of the #MeToo movement, actor Josh Kloss — who had appeared in Perry’s Teenage Dream music video — made a series of serious allegations against the singer on Instagram.
Kloss alleged that Perry had verbally abused him on the set of the video, and described a specific incident at a birthday party in which he claimed she pulled down his shorts and underwear to expose his g***tals to the crowd around them without his consent, per Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
“She pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as she could to show a couple of her guy friends and the crowd around us my p***s,” he wrote.
“Can you imagine how pathetic and embarrassed I felt?” he added. “I just say this now because our culture is set on proving men of power are perverse. But females with power are just as disgusting.”
The post was met with a divided response. Some dismissed it, questioning why Kloss had waited nine years to speak out.
Others defended him, pointing to the well-documented reality that victims of s**ual misconduct frequently take years — sometimes decades — before feeling safe enough to come forward. Kloss himself pushed back on the skepticism: “I have not lied or exaggerated whatsoever.”
Perry did not directly address the allegations at the time. The claims resurfaced this week in the context of the Ruby Rose investigation.
Tina Kandelaki and the unwanted advance
Shortly after Kloss made his allegations in 2019, Georgian-Russian television presenter Tina Kandelaki spoke to a Russian media outlet, claiming she had experienced unwanted behavior from Perry at an industry event, Newsweek reports.
Kandelaki alleged that Perry, whom she described as ‘pretty tipsy,’ approached her at a private party and attempted to kiss her. She claimed she physically resisted, and that Perry then moved on to someone else.
“Once I was invited to a private party with Katy Perry, where she, being pretty tipsy, chose me as an object for the manifestation of her passion,” Kandelaki stated.
“I managed to fight back, strength training was not in vain, and Katy instantly found a new victim for kisses, hugs and dirty dances.”
As with the Kloss allegations, Perry did not publicly respond to Kandelaki’s claims.
Benjamin Glaze — the American Idol kiss
Perhaps the most widely seen incident involving Perry and an allegation of non-consensual behavior came in 2018, broadcast live on national television in America.
During an American Idol audition, 19-year-old contestant Benjamin Glaze — who told the panel he had never been kissed — was beckoned over by Perry for what he assumed would be a peck on the cheek. She kissed him on the lips.
Glaze fell to the floor in visible shock. Perry high-fived her fellow judges, saying: “Yeah, I got him.”
In an interview with The New York Times afterward, Glaze said he had been ‘uncomfortable immediately’ and had wanted to save his first kiss for a relationship.
“I was raised in a conservative family,” he said. He also acknowledged, however, that he did not believe he had been s**ually harassed by Perry, and later posted on Facebook that he was ‘not complaining about the kiss’ and was ‘very honoured’ to have met her.
The incident nonetheless drew significant criticism at the time, with many observers pointing out that a male judge who kissed a female contestant without warning would have faced a very different public response.
Sara Beth Liebe — the young mother who quit
While not an allegation of s**ual misconduct, the case of Sara Beth Liebe on American Idol represents a different kind of controversy that has contributed to the broader picture of Perry’s behavior in positions of power.
Liebe, a 25-year-old mother of three, auditioned for the show and was subjected to what she later described as ’embarrassing’ and ‘hurtful’ comments from Perry about her age and her decision to have children young.
When Liebe mentioned she was a mother, Perry pretended to fall onto the table in theatrical shock. She then responded to Liebe’s comment about her performance with: “Honey, you’ve been laying on the table too much” — widely interpreted as a comment about Liebe’s s** life.
After advancing through the early rounds, Liebe ultimately quit the competition live on stage, telling the judges her heart was at home with her children.
She later made a TikTok video that received tens of thousands of likes, describing Perry’s comments as hurtful. “This is not okay,” she wrote. “Millions of young women who are mums watch this show.”
Perry addressed Liebe on stage as she quit, telling her: “I also know that it’s easier to walk away than to be rejected.”
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