Ronaldo Lawyers Want to Block Las Vegas Police Files in Palms Casino Rape Allegation

Lawyers for Cristiano Ronaldo are seeking to stamp down Las Vegas Metro Police (LVMPD) records of an investigating into a despoil arrogate made against the soccer star.

Las Vegas adult female Kathryn Mayorga alleges that Ronaldo raped her at his penthouse at the Palms Casino on June 13, 2009. She sued the Lusitanian subject inwards 2018, claiming battery, knowing infliction of emotional distress, coercion, fraud, and clapperclaw of a vulnerable person.

In October, a magistrate try recommended the case be tossed because it was largely based on leaked documents that were privileged communications betwixt Ronaldo and his attorneys. However, it is up to NV District Jennifer Dorsey to settle whether to use up upward the recommendation and push aside the case.

Stolen Documents

The documents inwards call into question were stolen past the soccer whistleblower website Football Leaks and passed to German language news magazine Der Spiegel, which ran a story on them inwards 2018.

They include conversations purported to experience taken position betwixt Ronaldo and his legal team which come out to support parts of Mayorga’s accounting of the alleged incident at the Palms.

Ronaldo’s lawyers say the conversations make been faked.

The Der Spiegel story prompted Mayorga to sue Ronaldo and for the LVMPD to reopen the case. They closed in(p) it in July 2019, locution the allegations could non follow proven beyond sane doubt.

NYT Fights for Access

Now, The New House of York Times wants the LVMPD to paw over the investigative files, which it says the section is de jure obligated to come below the Sagebrush State Public Records Act.

These are understood to take around 200 of the Football Leaks documents, which were passed to the LVMPD by Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stovall.

(G)ood do exists to prohibit the disclosure of LVMPD’s investigative file away because it contains stolen documents and communication theory labelled attorney-client favor and work product, which Plaintiff improperly obtained from an alleged cyber cyberpunk from whom her counsel specifically sought privileged attorney-client communications and piece of work product,” Ronaldo’s lawyers wrote inwards courtyard filings this month.

“Plaintiff and so submitted the stolen documents to LVMPD in keep of her request that LVMPD reopen a decade-old investigating to prosecute Defendant,” they added.

The Times said it would “object to this wrong endeavour to interfere with the public’s redress to escort governmental documents.”

$375,000 Settlement

In 2010, Mayorga in agreement(p) to sign up a non-disclosure arrangement to set down her exact against the Manchester United participant for a $375,000 settlement.

But Stovall argues she was “coerced” into signing the understanding past Ronaldo’s “legal fixers” at a time when she was “mentally incapacitated.”

Ronaldo has in public denied raping Mayorga, claiming they had consensual sex.