Riff Raff's Tour Canceled After Rape Allegation

A Melbourne woman named Eliza Stafford posted her story on Facebook, recounting how, at 19, she attended a 2013 Riff Raff show with her boyfriend. After being asked to come backstage mid-show, she writes she was offered a shot from a vodka bottle, which she consumed. Riff Raff allegedly laughed afterward and said the drink was codeine. She writes:

I don’t remember anything from that point. A couple of my friends were at the concert and when I didn’t come outside from backstage, asked what had happened. Another girl who had been backstage with me told them that I had been coerced to get in to a car with riff raff and his support act. She didn’t do anything. I had been actively fighting against them as she watched and they had eventually forced me in to a car. She told my friends this, we were all young and they didn’t tell anyone and I don’t blame them. I woke up as Riff raff was pulling out of me and getting in to the shower. I crawled – truly, on all fours -out of the hotel room and managed to get outside where I booked a taxi who wouldn’t take me because I was “too drunk”. I begged him to take me home, got back to my boyfriends house, and he was angry at me for “blowing him off”. I was punished for 6 months within that relationship for what “I did”. I was raped and blamed myself for 5 years.

Stafford writes that she received a notification that he would be performing near where she works. “If you are planning on attending the riff raff show at the corner next week I urge you to reconsider,” she concludes.

In response to the post, Riff Raff’s tour promoters, Audiopaxx, announced they were pulling his tour from Australia and New Zealand.