GettyA former aspiring model has publicly accused Christiano Ronaldo of raping her in 2009.
Kathryn Mayorga has come forward to allege Christiano Ronaldo, the Juventus forward, raped her in a bathroom at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in the early hours of June 13, 2009.
Now 34, the teacher has filed court documents accusing him of violently assaulting her in the Las Vegas hotel room in 2009. Mayorga was an aspiring model when she met Ronaldo at the Rain nightclub at the Palms. He was staying there on holiday.
GettyPhotographs show Ronaldo and Mayorga together at the club. In one intimate moment he clasps her hand while whispering into her ear.
According to documents filed at Clark County District Court on Friday, the footballer invited Mayorga and a friend to his penthouse suite ‘to enjoy the view of the Las Vegas Strip’.
Mayorga told Der Spiegel she refused to get into his hot tub because she did not want to ruin her dress, upon which time Ronaldo, then 24, offered her shorts and a T-shirt and showed Mayorga a bathroom where she could change.
The court documents show Mayorga’s account, which states as she was changing, Ronaldo entered the bathroom, exposed himself and asked her to perform a sex act.
Getty[Ms Mayorga] refused and stated she wanted to leave the hotel suite. Upon leaving the bathroom, Ronaldo pulled the plaintiff into a bedroom and on to a bed and attempted to engage in sexual intercourse.The accused is said to have then turned Mayorga on to her side, and the woman was allegedly raped by Ronaldo, even though she was screaming ‘No, no, no!’.
Plaintiff refused… and covered herself in an attempt to prevent sexual penetration.
The documents show Ronaldo agreed they had sex, but in his account, it was consensual.
GettyRonaldo, now 33, claimed Mayorga’s injuries were caused by another person.
Her lawyer later negotiated a £287,000 settlement, which was agreed in 2010, and obliged Mayorga to never to go public with her allegations.
But her new claim seeks to overturn the 2010 agreement, which she says she signed because she was ‘terrified of retaliation’ and scared of ‘being publicly humiliated by being identified as a victim of sexual assault’.
Mayorga said she has been traumatised by the alleged rape and has gone public with her story because of the #MeToo movement which is uncovering incidents of systematic sexual abuse the world over.
The Juventus player has now responded to the allegations on Instagram, despite Der Spiegel giving the 33-year-old and his team numerous opportunities over the past year to respond to the allegations.
The Portuguese international dismissed the bombshell allegations, saying:
No, no, no, no, no. What they said today? Fake, fake news.But it looks as though Ronaldo will, in fact, have to revisit the case and speak about what happened on that night in Las Vegas nine years ago. In the last several weeks, the police have spoken with Kathryn Mayorga on several occasions and questioned her again.
They want to promote [themselves by using] my name. It’s normal. They want to be famous to say my name, but it is part of the job. I am a happy man and all good.
The Nevada criminal code includes the following statute: If a sexual assault has been documented in time by the police, it will never fall under the statute of limitations.
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