A U.S. judge has dismissed a 2018 Nevada lawsuit accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of rape in 2009 and asked the Portuguese soccer star to pay the alleged victim $ 25 million in damages after agreeing to accept $ 375,000 in bail. according to court documents. . Judge Jennifer Dorsey dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice. The lawsuit was based on a series of articles called Football Leaks, which cited leaked documents containing confidential information from Ronaldo’s legal team. “The article made it clear that his source documents contained confidential, internal communications between Ronaldo’s American and European lawyers that had been stolen from their databases despite assurances intended to protect the confidentiality of clients,” the 42-page statement said. of Dorsey. Plaintiff’s attorney, Leslie Stovall, sought these infringed documents, which Dorsey said contained “notices that their contents contained attorney-client communications and attorney’s work,” and claimed that Stovall “did not inform the opposing attorney that he had in the possession of such documents despite the knowledge of their obvious privileged nature “. The judge further stated that the plaintiff, Kathryn Mayorga – a former model and teacher in Las Vegas – relied on documents to narrate her version of events from the night of the alleged attack in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, when she he was 24 and he was 25. CHRISTIAN RONALDO LEAVES THE PORTUGAL TEAM FOR THE NEXT MATCHES WITHIN THE CLASS OF VIOLENCE Mayorga claims that after meeting Ronaldo, he invited her to his hotel room and offered her something to wear to his hot tub. He also claims that while he was changing in his room, he pulled her to his bed and raped her despite her repeated statements to stop. Ronaldo’s legal team does not deny that the couple had sex, but insists it was consensual. A lawsuit filed in a US court in Las Vegas accusing Ronaldo of rape in 2009 demanded $ 25 million in damages from the footballer after the plaintiff agreed to accept $ 375,000 in silence after the alleged attack. (AP Photo / Bernat Armangue, Archive) The plaintiff reported the incident to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) at the time, but no charges were filed as Mayorga neither identified the alleged perpetrator by name nor said where the incident occurred when she reported the incident, police said. and prosecutors. . The LVMPD reopened the case years later and “issued a warrant for Ronaldo’s arrest, but in July 2019, the Clark County Attorney’s Office announced that it would not prosecute,” court documents say. CHRISTIAN RONALDO BUYED A $ 1.5 MILLION WATCH TO ORDER HIS BUGATTI $ 3 MILLION Stovall argued that Ronaldo’s legal team had failed to preserve the leaked documents and that the plaintiff’s legal team “was not the one who misappropriated the documents”. Dorsey, however, said the Football Leaks were “examples of textbooks that fall right into the heart of the Nevada lawyer-client privilege and the federal work-product doctrine,” adding that the plaintiff’s technical arguments do not change the privileged nature. of these documents “. Kathryn Magiorga’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stoval, speaks during a press conference on October 3, 2018, in Las Vegas, about the accusation of rape against the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo. (MARK RALSTON / AFP) After years of controversy between the two legal teams over the infringed material, Dorsey concluded that while “the court is sensitive to the severity of the fines” due to the “abuses and blatant circumvention of due process by the Stovall, [the plaintiff] misses the opportunity to pursue this case and try to relax the settlement of claims which, in themselves, involve serious allegations of a very personal nature “. “Nothing less than a biased dismissal will eliminate the trace that has permeated this case from the beginning and will maintain the integrity of the judicial process,” the judge wrote. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Stovall can appeal the decision to the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Ronaldo, 37 years old today, is one of the highest paid and most recognizable sports stars in the world. He plays for the English team of the Premier League Manchester United and has the captain of the national team of his homeland, Portugal. He spent a lot of the last few years playing in Italy for Juventus based in Turin. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email tips to [email protected] or Twitter at @audpants.
