Las Vegas police (LVMPD) believed they’d the proof to arrest and cost soccer famous person Cristiano Ronaldo for an alleged 2009 rape on the Palms On line casino, and even utilized for an arrest warrant.
Cristiano Ronaldo, above, has denied raping Las Vegas lady Kathryn Mayorga at his penthouse within the Palms On line casino on the night time of June 13, 2009. (Picture: Marca)
That was simply earlier than Clark County AG Steve Wolfson determined in 2019 to not prosecute the Manchester United and Portugal ahead. Wolfson stated the allegations couldn’t be “confirmed past cheap doubt.”
The information that LVMPD was able to make an arrest got here from court docket transcripts from a civil case introduced in opposition to the soccer participant by his accuser, Kathryn Mayorga.
DA Says No
The feedback have been made by Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stovall, throughout a Las Vegas federal court docket listening to in September. However the transcript has solely simply come to mild.
What occurred is when that [arrest warrant affidavit] was submitted to the district lawyer’s workplace, Mr. Wolfson declined to prosecute,” stated Stovall within the transcript, seen by The Solar.
“He doesn’t say why he determined to say no, and something, any argument, is simply hypothesis. It was inside the statute of limitations,” Stovall continued.
Ronaldo Denies Claims
Ronaldo denies raping Mayorga. He says that the intercourse that occurred between them at his penthouse on the Palms on the night time of June 13, 2009, was consensual.
Based on the DA and court docket data, Mayorga referred to as the LVMPD on June 13, 2009, to say she had been sexually assaulted. She was taken to a hospital for an examination which revealed she had circumferential rectal swelling with bruising and a laceration, accidents in line with anal rape.
However she refused to reveal the identify of the alleged perpetrator to police as a result of she feared public humiliation and retribution, in accordance with court docket paperwork. Consequently, police dropped the case. It will be reopened a decade later.
In 2010, Mayorga agreed to signal a non-disclosure settlement to drop any civil claims in opposition to Ronaldo for a $375,000 settlement. However Stovall claims she was coerced into this by the star’s workforce of authorized fixers and status administration specialists at a time when she was “mentally incapacitated.”
Soccer Leaks Paperwork
In 2018, Mayorga sued Ronaldo, claiming battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, coercion, fraud, and abuse of a susceptible particular person.
The catalyst was the leak of confidential paperwork from Ronaldo’s camp, which revealed the existence of the NDA. However additionally they included conversations presupposed to be between the soccer participant and his lawyer, wherein an individual recognized as Ronaldo seems to confess that the intercourse was not consensual.
This particular person additionally mentions particulars that seem to corroborate Mayorga’s account, equivalent to that he apologized and claimed he was “normally a gentleman” after the act.
The paperwork have been handed to German information journal Der Spiegel by the Soccer Leaks web site. Ronaldo’s attorneys say the paperwork have been stolen by hackers and falsified.
Mayorga took copies of the paperwork to LVMPD and requested them to reopen the case, which they did. It was dropped by Wolfson in July 2019.
A Las Vegas Justice of the Peace choose just lately really helpful Mayorga’s case must be dismissed as a result of a lot of it’s primarily based on privileged info, shared between Ronaldo and his attorneys. This could not have been publicly submitted as proof, the choose stated.
