NZ Herald
  • Home
  • Latest news
  • Video
  • New Zealand
  • Sport
  • World
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Podcasts
  • Quizzes
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Viva
  • Weather forecasts

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • New Zealand
    • All New Zealand
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Open Justice
    • Scam Update
  • Budget 2025
  • On The Up
  • World
    • All World
    • Australia
    • Asia
    • UK
    • United States
    • Middle East
    • Europe
    • Pacific
  • Business
    • All Business
    • MarketsSharesCurrencyCommoditiesStock TakesCrypto
    • Markets with Madison
    • Media Insider
    • Business analysis
    • Personal financeKiwiSaverInterest ratesTaxInvestment
    • EconomyInflationGDPOfficial cash rateEmployment
    • Small business
    • Business reportsMood of the BoardroomProject AucklandSustainable business and financeCapital markets reportAgribusiness reportInfrastructure reportDynamic business
    • Deloitte Top 200 Awards
    • CompaniesAged CareAgribusinessAirlinesBanking and financeConstructionEnergyFreight and logisticsHealthcareManufacturingMedia and MarketingRetailTelecommunicationsTourism
  • Opinion
    • All Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Editorials
    • Business analysis
    • Premium opinion
    • Letters to the editor
  • Sport
    • All Sport
    • OlympicsParalympics
    • RugbySuper RugbyNPCAll BlacksBlack FernsRugby sevensSchool rugby
    • CricketBlack CapsWhite Ferns
    • Racing
    • NetballSilver Ferns
    • LeagueWarriorsNRL
    • FootballWellington PhoenixAuckland FCAll WhitesFootball FernsEnglish Premier League
    • GolfNZ Open
    • MotorsportFormula 1
    • Boxing
    • UFC
    • BasketballNBABreakersTall BlacksTall Ferns
    • Tennis
    • Cycling
    • Athletics
    • SailingAmerica's CupSailGP
    • Rowing
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Viva - Food, fashion & beauty
    • Society Insider
    • Royals
    • Sex & relationships
    • Food & drinkRecipesRecipe collectionsRestaurant reviewsRestaurant bookings
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Fashion & beauty
    • Pets & animals
    • The Selection - Shop the trendsShop fashionShop beautyShop entertainmentShop giftsShop home & living
    • Milford's Investing Place
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • TV
    • MoviesMovie reviews
    • MusicMusic reviews
    • BooksBook reviews
    • Culture
    • ReviewsBook reviewsMovie reviewsMusic reviewsRestaurant reviews
  • Travel
    • All Travel
    • News
    • New ZealandNorthlandAucklandWellingtonCanterburyOtago / QueenstownNelson-TasmanBest NZ beaches
    • International travelAustraliaPacific IslandsEuropeUKUSAAfricaAsia
    • Rail holidays
    • Cruise holidays
    • Ski holidays
    • Luxury travel
    • Adventure travel
  • Kāhu Māori news
  • Environment
    • All Environment
    • Our Green Future
  • Talanoa Pacific news
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Property Insider
    • Interest rates tracker
    • Residential property listings
    • Commercial property listings
  • Health
  • Technology
    • All Technology
    • AI
    • Social media
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
    • Opinion
    • Audio & podcasts
  • Weather forecasts
    • All Weather forecasts
    • Kaitaia
    • Whangārei
    • Dargaville
    • Auckland
    • Thames
    • Tauranga
    • Hamilton
    • Whakatāne
    • Rotorua
    • Tokoroa
    • Te Kuiti
    • Taumaranui
    • Taupō
    • Gisborne
    • New Plymouth
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Dannevirke
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Levin
    • Paraparaumu
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Blenheim
    • Westport
    • Reefton
    • Kaikōura
    • Greymouth
    • Hokitika
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
    • Wānaka
    • Oamaru
    • Queenstown
    • Dunedin
    • Gore
    • Invercargill
  • Meet the journalists
  • Promotions & competitions
  • OneRoof property listings
  • Driven car news

Puzzles & Quizzes

  • Puzzles
    • All Puzzles
    • Sudoku
    • Code Cracker
    • Crosswords
    • Cryptic crossword
    • Wordsearch
  • Quizzes
    • All Quizzes
    • Morning quiz
    • Afternoon quiz
    • Sports quiz

Regions

  • Northland
    • All Northland
    • Far North
    • Kaitaia
    • Kerikeri
    • Kaikohe
    • Bay of Islands
    • Whangarei
    • Dargaville
    • Kaipara
    • Mangawhai
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
    • All Waikato
    • Hamilton
    • Coromandel & Hauraki
    • Matamata & Piako
    • Cambridge
    • Te Awamutu
    • Tokoroa & South Waikato
    • Taupō & Tūrangi
  • Bay of Plenty
    • All Bay of Plenty
    • Katikati
    • Tauranga
    • Mount Maunganui
    • Pāpāmoa
    • Te Puke
    • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Hawke's Bay
    • All Hawke's Bay
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Havelock North
    • Central Hawke's Bay
    • Wairoa
  • Taranaki
    • All Taranaki
    • Stratford
    • New Plymouth
    • Hāwera
  • Manawatū - Whanganui
    • All Manawatū - Whanganui
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Manawatū
    • Tararua
    • Horowhenua
  • Wellington
    • All Wellington
    • Kapiti
    • Wairarapa
    • Upper Hutt
    • Lower Hutt
  • Nelson & Tasman
    • All Nelson & Tasman
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury
    • All Canterbury
    • Kaikōura
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
  • Otago
    • All Otago
    • Oamaru
    • Dunedin
    • Balclutha
    • Alexandra
    • Queenstown
    • Wanaka
  • Southland
    • All Southland
    • Invercargill
    • Gore
    • Stewart Island
  • Gisborne

Media

  • Video
    • All Video
    • NZ news video
    • Business news video
    • Politics news video
    • Sport video
    • World news video
    • Lifestyle video
    • Entertainment video
    • Travel video
    • Markets with Madison
    • Kea Kids news
  • Podcasts
    • All Podcasts
    • The Front Page
    • On the Tiles
    • Ask me Anything
    • The Little Things
    • Cooking the Books
  • Cartoons
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • What the Actual
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Sport / Rugby / Super Rugby

Chiefs stripper Scarlette rejects reopening a police inquiry

NZ Herald
9 Sep, 2016 04:08 AM4 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

New Zealand Rugby boss Steve Tew said allegations by the stripper Scarlette against the Chiefs cannot be substantiated. Photo / Mark Mitchell

New Zealand Rugby boss Steve Tew said allegations by the stripper Scarlette against the Chiefs cannot be substantiated. Photo / Mark Mitchell

The stripper at the centre of the Chiefs scandal has said she doesn't want a police inquiry to be reopened.

The stripper, known as Scarlette, sent a statement through her lawyer that said she did not want the matters re-investigated and she didn't want to lay a complaint with police.

Scarlette said she wanted to be left alone and have her privacy respected.

"Scarlette has no wish to see the events surrounding the Chiefs' end-of-season celebration re-investigated, either by New Zealand Rugby or any other agency.

"She did not make a complaint to the police at the time and she does not intend to make a complaint to the police now.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"She wants to be left alone and, once again, she asks media to respect her privacy."

This comes after fresh allegations from a Radio NZ interview with Scarlette last month.

At the time Radio NZ did not release the full interview. Today they published more of it in which she made further allegations.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Scarlette alleged one player touched her vagina "multiple times with me telling him not to and eventually having to fight him off". She continued, "that didn't deter him though - he kept going".

"Then during all of that they just crowded in on me, real pack mentality kind of a thing."

She alleged the players tried to pull their penises out, "which I don't do".

"They were throwing gravel at me during the time as well. I'd normally stop just from that but I felt that I couldn't stop because I've been in situations before where I've been held in rooms and a knife held to me and I just didn't want this one to go that way.

Discover more

Opinion

Cartoon: Chiefs escape stripper allegations

07 Sep 05:00 PM
Opinion

Players missing when needed

07 Sep 05:30 PM
Super Rugby

'Booze and birds' culture still alive and well in NZ

07 Sep 11:25 PM
All Blacks

Chiefs scandal: Changes needed - Hansen

08 Sep 12:56 AM

"If you show your vulnerability they do attack it."

Police responded that they wanted to interview Scarlette given what had been reported to see if there was any information she wished to give police.

Police today said they had twice approached the woman after she raised concerns about the behaviour of players at the end-of-year rugby function.

New Zealand Rugby boss Steve Tew said allegations by the stripper Scarlette against the Chiefs cannot be substantiated.

Tew fronted media at FMG Waikato Stadium ahead of tomorrow night's All Blacks game there, saying he stood by the investigation by employment lawyer Keith Binnie into the scandal.

Tew said Binnie trawled through more than three hours of video footage from the function last month and interviewed everybody there and he could not reconcile the two differing accounts of the event.

"We tried very hard to talk to Scarlette at the beginning of this inquiry.

"We talked to police, Victim Support, and a range of other people and it wasn't until the very end that she was prepared to speak.

"But actually she couldn't tell us anything that she hadn't already said on television."

Tew was adamant the report by Binnie was the "truth of the situation".

"We got to the truth of why happened around the Chiefs 2016 event."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

He said any work they did with women's advocates would have to be "quick" to avoid rugby's reputation eroding further.

Tew said if there was anything more the NZR could find out about the incident it would, and anything illegal would be handed straight to police.

He added that the Chiefs players themselves were remorseful.

"There are a lot of players who are upset because clearly no one wants this to be dragged out.

"And I think a lot of us are feeling for Scarlette because this has put her in a very awkward situation too."

Tew said the players had already said sorry for what they had caused.

"We are very concerned for Scarlette's wellbeing and I've offered any support that we can give her. I think the whole game, and I'm the representative of it, can say we are very sorry we're in this position. If we've hurt either of these women then we apologise."

Tew was referring to another women named Laura who made similar accusations about a Chiefs event last year.

When questioned about the way the apology was handled, in that the Chiefs' reputation and rugby's brand and players were put ahead of the strippers, Tew said there was good reason for that.

"We have accusations that were made which are damning and actually criminal that cannot be substantiated. The accusations were made live on television without any filtering of those accusations."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

He denied that the investigation into allegations about last year's event had completely failed and said instead it was incomplete.

"No we haven't talked to Laura and if she wants to talk to us we will. She's now telling us she's available to speak to us."

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Super Rugby

Premium
Super Rugby

Moana Pasifika set to lose another star as Chiefs eye top talent

20 May 06:00 AM
Super Rugby

Key All Black re-signs with Chiefs, NZ Rugby until 2027

19 May 07:00 PM
Super Rugby

'Huge honour': Savea wins inaugural Super Rugby Pacific award

18 May 08:37 PM

The Hire A Hubby hero turning handyman stereotypes on their head

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Super Rugby

Premium
Moana Pasifika set to lose another star as Chiefs eye top talent

Moana Pasifika set to lose another star as Chiefs eye top talent

20 May 06:00 AM

Moana Pasifika are set to lose another player to a New Zealand franchise.

Key All Black re-signs with Chiefs, NZ Rugby until 2027

Key All Black re-signs with Chiefs, NZ Rugby until 2027

19 May 07:00 PM
'Huge honour': Savea wins inaugural Super Rugby Pacific award

'Huge honour': Savea wins inaugural Super Rugby Pacific award

18 May 08:37 PM
'Had to weather the storm': Moana Pasifika top Blues

'Had to weather the storm': Moana Pasifika top Blues

17 May 09:34 AM
Gold demand soars amid global turmoil
sponsored

Gold demand soars amid global turmoil

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • NZ Herald e-editions
  • Daily puzzles & quizzes
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • What the Actual
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven CarGuide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP