Palms Casino Cristiano Ronaldo Rape Lawsuit May Be Tossed By Nevada Judge

A Sagebrush State try has recommended dismissing a lawsuit that accuses association football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo of raping a adult female inwards his Palms Casino penthouse 12 years ago.

Las Vegas occupier Katherine Mayorga sued the Portuguese subject inwards 2018, claiming battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion, fraud, and vilification of a vulnerable person. She alleges Ronaldo raped her on the dark of July 12, 2009 after the geminate had met that eve at the casino’s nightclub. Via her lawyers, she has granted consent to puddle her nominate public.

Magistrate try Daniel Albregts wrote Wednesday that much of the compositor's case was based on leaked and stolen documents. Those were privileged communication theory betwixt the Manchester United participant and his attorneys, the adjudicate said.

He added that Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stoval, should non experience submitted the documents as exhibits inwards public filings to the court. In doing so, he had “acted inward tough faith to his client’s and his profession’s detriment,” according to Albregts.

Dismissing Mayorga’s showcase for the unfitting deal of her attorney is a rough result,” Albregts wrote inward his recommendation to Judge Jennifer Dorsey, who is audience the case. “But it is, unfortunately, the only when capture endorsement to ensure the integrity of the juridic process.”

Disputed Document Leak

The documents inward query were passed to German news magazine Der Spiegel in October 2018 past the hacktivist Football Leaks website.

They include a purported “information-gathering questionnaire” sent to Ronaldo past his legal team shortly after the alleged incident. In this document, an individual referred to as “X” who is alleged to be Ronaldo appears to acknowledge he occupied inward non-consensual sexuality with Mayorga.

Ronaldo’s effectual squad arrogate they were falsified.

Certain inside information of X’s description of the incident come out to pair the answer for Mayorga gave to Las Vegas constabulary at the time.

These include the details that he “entered her from behind,” that she repeatedly shouted “No,” and that he apologized to her afterwards, before adding that he was “usually a gentleman.”

‘Humiliation and Retaliation’

The publishing of the documents appeared to experience been the accelerator for Mayorga to sue Ronaldo.

She says she did non followup the display case after her initial impinging with Las Vegas law because she feared “public abasement and retaliation.” The section resurrected the slip inward 2018, but dropped it a year later, final the allegations could non follow proven beyond a sensible doubt.

In 2010, Mayorga agreed to mark a non-disclosure agreement, offering to free fall her take against the player for a $375,000 settlement. But in her lawsuit, she claims she was coerced into signing the arrangement past Ronaldo’s “legal fixers” at a clip when she was “mentally incapacitated.”

A date has non been circle for Dorsey to make upward Albregts’ recommendation.