Ronaldo does not deny meeting Mayorga at the Palms but claims the sex that occurred in the resort\u2019s penthouse suite was consensual.<\/p>\n
Mayorga signed a non-disclosure agreement in 2010, agreeing to drop her allegations against the athlete in return for $375,000. But she sued in 2018, arguing she was coerced into signing the agreement by Ronaldo\u2019s \u201clegal fixers\u201d at a time when she says she was \u201cmentally incapacitated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The psychological trauma of the sexual assault, the fear of public humiliation and retaliation, and the reiteration of those fears by law enforcement and medical providers left plaintiff terrified and unable to act or advocate for herself,\u201d according to her lawyers.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThey say Mayorga believed she was being compensated for her loss, whereas, in fact, the settlement was designed to derail a police investigation into a criminal act.<\/p>\n
Disputed Documents <\/strong><\/h2>\nThe \u201cstolen and falsified\u201d document in question was passed to German news magazine Der Spiegel<\/em> in October 2018 by the hacktivist Football Leaks<\/em> website. The document\u2019s publication appeared to be the catalyst for Mayorga to sue Ronaldo.<\/p>\nIt purports to be an \u201cinformation-gathering questionnaire\u201d sent to Ronaldo by his legal team shortly after the alleged incident. In it, a person alleged to be Ronaldo, but referred to in the documents as \u201cX,\u201d appears to admit he engaged in non-consensual sex with Mayorga.<\/p>\n
Some details of X’s description of the incident appear to match the account Mayorga initially gave to Las Vegas police, including that he \u201centered her from behind,\u201d that she repeatedly shouted \u201cno,\u201d and that he apologized to her afterwards.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo has described the claims as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is asking a federal judge in Las Vegas to dismiss a lawsuit by a Nevada woman. She claims the Portuguese national raped her at the Palms Casino Resort in 2009. Lawyers for Ronaldo also want Mayorga\u2019s lawyer, Leslie Stovall, to be sanctioned for handling stolen documents. These were confidential files lifted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":175488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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