Cristiano Ronaldo has publicly admitted that he has paid a sexual assault accuser $375,000 back in 2010. The high profile football player is battling a sexual harassment lawsuit and revealed these details as his legal team wants the case thrown out and his name cleared of rape allegations.
The Portuguese captain and the Juventus star confirmed that he agreed to pay Kathryn Mayorga who accused him of sexual assault at a Las Vegas hotel back in 2009. Ronaldo is reported to have paid her $375,000 in a settlement after she signed a confidentiality agreement.
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The details of the arrangement were brought to light in 2018, after Mayorga filed a lawsuit to have the agreement declared null and void, publicly naming Ronaldo as she submitted her rape lawsuit. In refiling her lawsuit last year, Mayorga accused Ronaldo and his legal team of coercing her into signing the pact.
Ronaldo has denied the rape allegations and maintained that the interaction between the two was consensual. However, this is the first time that Ronaldo has acknowledged the settlement.
According to documents, Ronaldo’s camp is requesting the case be immediately dismissed because the involved parties have already reached a prior binding settlement and because the statute of limitations for the alleged crime has expired.
The motion also argues that Mayorga has failed to offer sufficient evidence that she lacked the urgency to make a rational decision in 2010 when she agreed to the confidentiality settlement. No criminal charges still stem from the alleged incident.
In the lawsuit filed by Mayorga in October 2018, she accuses the 34-year-old father of four of sodomizing her by force and battery. She’s also tagged Ronaldo’s camp of coercion and the infliction of unsurmountable emotional distress.
Mayorga stated that was repeatedly discouraged from filing the lawsuit and naming Cristiano Ronaldo as her rapist. She was talked out of it by medical providers and law enforcement who told her that her allegations may be construed as extortion.
Ronaldo also reportedly retained a group of “fixers” to put Mayorga, as well as her friends and family, under surveillance, fearing the surfacing of the rape allegations and criminal prosecution.
The Clark County District Attorney’s Office in Las Vegas confirms that Mayorga reported the incident in 2009 but refused to name her aggressor. Detectives met with the alleged rape victim at a hospital but she repeatedly declined to identify the perpetrator or reveal where the crime occurred.
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