Kathryn Mayorga, pictured with Ronaldo on the night of the incident.
Sat 10 June 2022:
According to Sky News in the United Kingdom, a US judge has dismissed the rape complaint filed against Manchester United and Portugal soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo in Las Vegas.
Nearly three years ago, prosecutors in Las Vegas said Ronaldo would not face charges in connection with a 10-year-old sexual assault claim because the case could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Kathryn Mayorga sued Ronaldo in state court in Nevada in September 2018, saying him of rapping her in a Las Vegas hotel penthouse suite in 2009 and then paying her $375,000 in hush money.
Ronaldo, who plays for Premier League club Manchester United, has maintained he is innocent.
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey kicked the case out of court on Friday over the way documents were obtained.
The judge said that dismissing a case outright with no option to file it again is a severe sanction, but that Ronaldo had been harmed by the conduct of the woman’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall.
“I find that the procurement and continued use of these documents was bad faith,” the judge said in her ruling.
“Simply disqualifying Stovall will not cure the prejudice to Ronaldo because the misappropriated documents and their confidential contents have been woven into the very fabric of (the plaintiff’s) claims.
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