Ronaldo has charged a former model he met in Las Vegas and taken legal action after police dropped their initial investigation.
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will not be forced to pay millions in a civil lawsuit against a Nevada woman who once accused him of rape, the Guardian reports.
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The 37-year-old is one of the most famous sports stars in the world. He plays for Manchester United in the English Premier League and manages his country's national team, Portugal.
Mayorga, a former model, said she met Ronaldo at a nightclub in June 2009 and returned with him and others to their hotel suite. Ronaldo allegedly assaulted her in a bedroom.
Ronaldo confirmed that the meeting took place by mutual agreement. Police and prosecutors said Las Vegas police dropped the criminal investigation because Mayorga was unable to identify Ronaldo by name and did not say where the accident took place.
Ronaldo paid Mayorga more than $375,000 in the settlement. However, the confidentiality agreement was allegedly breached after news of the incident was published in the German newspaper Der Spiegel in 2017. This prompted the woman to reconsider her civil lawsuit. The lawsuit blamed Ronaldo or his associates for the leak.
Ronaldo's legal team has blamed reports of electronic data leaks on hacked documents from law firms and other entities in Europe.
Las Vegas police reopened the criminal case when Mayorga filed her civil lawsuit, but prosecutors decided again in 2019 not to pursue a criminal case.
On Friday, US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey filed a civil lawsuit against Ronaldo. The judge said he prevented the case from being redacted and cited Kathryn Mayorga's attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, for "bad faith" and the use of "incorrect" classified documents that irreparably tarnished the case.
The 42-page document alleges that Ronaldo is saddened by the woman's complaint against him.
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