Cristiano Ronaldo Civil Case Dismissed By Nevada Judge, Cites ‘Bad Faith Conduct’ Of Accuser’s Attorney

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is not going to be compelled to pay hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in a civil lawsuit to a Nevada girl who as soon as accused him of rape.

Ronaldo, age 37, is without doubt one of the most extremely paid and recognizable sports activities stars on the earth. He performs for the English Premier League membership Manchester United and has captained the nationwide staff of his residence nation, Portugal.

Mayorga is a former mannequin who stated she met Ronaldo at a nightclub in June 2009 and went again with him and different individuals to his resort suite. Ronaldo allegedly assaulted her in a bed room.

Ronaldo has contended the encounter was consensual. The felony investigation was dropped by Las Vegas police as a result of Mayorga didn’t determine Ronaldo by identify and wouldn’t say the place the incident came about, police and prosecutors stated.

Ronaldo paid Mayorga greater than $375,000 as a settlement. Nonetheless, an settlement on confidentiality was claimed to have been breached after stories on the incident appeared in Germany’s Der Spiegel in 2017. That prompted the girl to refile her civil lawsuit. The lawsuit blamed Ronaldo or his associates for the leak.

Ronaldo’s authorized staff blamed the stories on digital knowledge leaks of paperwork hacked from legislation companies and different entities in Europe.

The felony case was reopened by Las Vegas police when Mayorga filed her civil go well with, however prosecutors once more determined in 2019 towards pursuing a felony case.

On Friday, US District Court docket Choose Jennifer Dorsey tossed the civil case towards Ronaldo. She barred a refiling of the case and cited Kathryn Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, for “bad-faith conduct” and using “purloined” confidential paperwork that tainted the case past redemption, the choose stated.

The 42-page doc claimed Ronaldo was harmed by the girl’s criticism towards him.