Four AFL stars cleared in sexual assault investigation
Victoria Police cleared four AFL players after finding no evidence of sexual assault allegations.
Reported by The Nightly
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The players were cleared but still face team punishment, raising questions about how sports clubs handle conduct cases.
Key facts
- 12 weeks
- Investigation duration
- August 17
- Investigation start
- Pullman Hotel, East Melbourne
- Incident location
- Warner, Heeney, Jordon, Blakey
- Players cleared
- Victoria Police cleared Chad Warner, Isaac Heeney, James Jordon and Nick Blakey after a 12-week investigation.
- Detectives found no evidence and laid no charges.
- The investigation began in August after exotic dancers alleged they were touched and slapped at the Pullman Hotel in East Melbourne.
- Sydney benched the players for the rest of the 2026 season for breaking club rules.
- The ban remains even though they were cleared.
- Heeney said the past three months had been hard on his family.
- His fiancée Steffie Waters moved away from him publicly, removing his photos from Instagram and travelling to the US without her ring.
