Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will not face felony expenses after a girl accused him of raping her at a Las Vegas Strip resort in 2009, studies CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS-TV. The Clark County District Lawyer’s Workplace decided “the allegations of sexual assault can’t be confirmed past an affordable doubt.”
Prosecutor Steve Wolfson stated no cost might be filed.
Ronaldo’s lawyer, Peter Christiansen, wasn’t instantly out there to remark. Christiansen has stated the intercourse was consensual.
Attorneys for Ronaldo’s accuser, former mannequin and schoolteacher Kathryn Mayorga, didn’t instantly reply to phone, textual content and e-mail messages.
A lawsuit filed final September in Nevada state court docket was dropped in June. She has a lawsuit pending towards Ronaldo in U.S. court docket in Las Vegas. It alleges he or these working for him allowed phrases of a confidential monetary settlement with Mayorga to develop into public.
Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, has acknowledged that Mayorga obtained $375,000 in hush cash following the 2009 encounter. He maintained that settlement was made below strain from “fixers” making an attempt to guard Ronaldo’s repute.
The lawsuit seeks to void the settlement and acquire at the least $200,000 extra from Ronaldo.
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Ronaldo, who performs in Italy for the Turin-based soccer membership Juventus, is without doubt one of the most recognizable and extremely paid gamers in sports activities.
Mayorga underwent a medical examination to gather DNA proof shortly after she says Ronaldo assaulted her in June 2009. She spoke once more with police for the brand new investigation, and authorities this 12 months obtained a pattern of Ronaldo’s DNA via Italian authorities.
Police stated the preliminary investigation was closed in 2009 as a result of Mayorga solely recognized her attacker as a European soccer participant, not by identify, and didn’t say the place she claims the rape passed off.
The investigation was reopened final 12 months on the request of her attorneys, shortly earlier than they sued Ronaldo.
