A woman who had accused Cristiano Ronaldo of sexual assault in Las Vegas in 2009, a claim he vehemently denied, saw her civil lawsuit dismissed by a US judge last year. However, her legal team is currently attempting to rekindle her pursuit to compel the soccer superstar to provide additional compensation through a confidentiality agreement.
Legal representatives for soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo are heading back to court today to engage in a legal dispute concerning. Then the monetary settlement he made in 2010 with a woman who accused him of sexual assault.
At that time, Ronaldo paid Kathryn Mayorga, who has chosen not to remain anonymous, $375,000 (£275,000) in an attempt to maintain confidentiality.
Mayorga had alleged that he sexually assaulted her in a Las Vegas hotel room in June 2009. An accusation Ronaldo vehemently denied.
A lawsuit seeking additional compensation was dismissed in June of the previous year by US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey, citing misconduct and the use of stolen confidential documents.
However, on Wednesday, a US appeals court will hear arguments from Mayorga’s legal team. And who are trying to resurrect her efforts to compel Cristiano Ronaldo to provide a much larger sum.
Her lawyers will appeal to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the case’s dismissal. And reopen the civil lawsuit she initially filed in Nevada back in 2018.
They will contend that the federal court judge in Nevada made errors by repeatedly rejecting Mayorga’s requests to unseal and include the confidentiality agreement she signed in 2010 as evidence. So, which pertains to the payments she received from Ronaldo.
In a statement released in October 2018, Ronaldo asserted, “I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.”
His legal team maintains that the sexual encounter was consensual. As well as that a confidentiality agreement prohibits both parties from discussing it.
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