Cristiano Ronaldo Accused Of Rape By Us Woman! "She Said Stop Or No Several Times, She Said That She Doesn't Want To"
A US woman has gone public with her claim that soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo raped her in a Las Vegas hotel nine years ago.
Kathryn Mayorga, a 34-year-old Las Vegas native, tells Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine she met the Portuguese soccer player in the city’s “Rain†nightclub in June 2009.
Later, in his penthouse in the Palms Place Hotel, she claims the player raped her anally, then apologised.
Lawyers for Ronaldo on Friday said they would sue the magazine for publishing “blatantly illegal†accusations.
Ronaldo’s lawyer Christian Schertz said in a statement the report was “an inadmissible reporting of suspicions in the area of privacyâ€, and that he would seek legal redress for his client from the magazine.
In January 2010, Mayorga and Ronaldo agreed a $375,000 settlement in which she agreed to drop all charges in exchange for the payment. Mayorga, who studied journalism before working as a model, says she signed the settlement out of fear.
“I didn’t want a trial, nobody should know what happened to me,†she told the magazine.
But silence had not helped her process the experience, she said, and she had given up her job as a school teacher.
She hired a new lawyer who questions the legality of the out-of-court settlement. He showed Der Spiegel a preliminary version of a statement about the night, allegedly from Ronaldo. In it he says: “’I took her from behind, the rough way . . . she said ‘no’, and ‘don’t do that’ several times. Afterwards I apologised.â€
His admissions vanished from later versions of the statement, the magazine claims.
In 2009, Mayorga worked in “Rain†as a promoter, financing her studies by encouraging guests to have fun and drink more.
“There was champagne but I only drank a bit as I was on a diet,†she said.
Paparazzi pictures from the evening show her and Ronaldo talking and dancing. Posted By Ghost