{"id":188360,"date":"2021-10-08T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=188360"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:52:44","slug":"nevada-judge-wants-to-toss-ronaldo-palms-casino-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-judge-wants-to-toss-ronaldo-palms-casino-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Palms Casino Cristiano Ronaldo Rape Lawsuit May Be Tossed By Nevada Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Nevada judge has recommended dismissing a lawsuit<\/a> that accuses soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo of raping a woman in his Palms Casino penthouse 12 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Cristiano
Cristiano Ronaldo and Katherine Mayorga photographed at the Palms Casino nightclub on July 12, 2009, the night of the alleged attack. (Image: Associated Press<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Las Vegas resident Katherine Mayorga sued the Portuguese national in 2018, claiming battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion, fraud, and abuse of a vulnerable person. She alleges Ronaldo raped her on the night of July 12, 2009, after the pair had met that evening at the casino\u2019s nightclub. Via her lawyers, she has given consent to make her name public.<\/p>\n

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Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts wrote Wednesday that much of the case was based on leaked and stolen documents. Those were privileged communications between the Manchester United player and his attorneys, the judge said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He added that Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stoval, should not have submitted the documents as exhibits in public filings to the court. In doing so, he had \u201cacted in bad faith to his client\u2019s and his profession\u2019s detriment,\u201d according to Albregts.<\/p>\n

“Dismissing Mayorga\u2019s case for the inappropriate conduct of her attorney is a harsh result,\u201d Albregts wrote in his recommendation to Judge Jennifer Dorsey, who is hearing the case. \u201cBut it is, unfortunately, the only appropriate sanction to ensure the integrity of the judicial process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disputed Document Leak<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The documents in question were passed to German news magazine\u00a0Der Spiegel<\/em>\u00a0in October 2018 by the hacktivist\u00a0Football Leaks<\/em>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

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They include a purported \u201cinformation-gathering questionnaire\u201d sent to Ronaldo by his legal team shortly after the alleged incident. In this document, an individual referred to as \u201cX\u201d who is alleged to be Ronaldo appears to admit he engaged in non-consensual sex with Mayorga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ronaldo\u2019s legal team claim they were falsified.<\/p>\n

Certain details of X\u2019s description of the incident appear to match the account Mayorga gave to Las Vegas police at the time. These include the details that he \u201centered her from behind,\u201d that she repeatedly shouted \u201cNo,\u201d and that he apologized to her afterward, before adding that he was \u201cusually a gentleman.”<\/p>\n

Case Dropped, Resurrected\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The publication of the documents appeared to have been the catalyst for Mayorga to sue Ronaldo.<\/p>\n

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She says she did not follow up the case after her initial contact with Las Vegas police because she feared \u201cpublic humiliation and retaliation.\u201d The department resurrected the case in 2018, but dropped it a year later, concluding the allegations could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2010, Mayorga agreed to sign a non-disclosure agreement, offering to drop her claim against the player for a $375,000 settlement. But in her lawsuit, she claims she was coerced into signing the agreement by Ronaldo\u2019s \u201clegal fixers\u201d at a time when she was \u201cmentally incapacitated.\u201d<\/p>\n

A date has not been set for Dorsey to take up Albregts’ recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Nevada judge has recommended dismissing a lawsuit that accuses soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo of raping a woman in his Palms Casino penthouse 12 years ago. Las Vegas resident Katherine Mayorga sued the Portuguese national in 2018, claiming battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion, fraud, and abuse of a vulnerable person. 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