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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced on Monday in a statement that it had reopened a rape investigation of a woman who allegedly revealed that her attacker was football star Cristiano Ronaldo.
The police department, responding to questions from the news agencies, issued a statement stating that it was investigating the case again and following up the information provided by the victim, without, however, naming the woman or woman. suspect.
The woman, Kathryn Mayorga, has filed a lawsuit against Ronaldo, the Portuguese star who plays for Italian club Juventus, Thursday in Clark County, Nev. She stated that she had paid $ 375,000 to Ronaldo to settle her claims and that she had signed a confidentiality agreement.
A number of documents which, according to Mayorga's representatives, support his allegations, have been published in the German magazine Der Spiegel. Ronaldo's legal team called their publication "blatantly illegal".
In a statement, Ronaldo's lawyer, Christian Schertz, threatened Der Spiegel and any other media outlet likely to repeat his reports, citing Ronaldo's private life:
"The reports in Spiegel are clearly illegal. This violates the personal rights of our client Cristiano Ronaldo in an exceptionally serious manner. This is an unacceptable report of suspicions in the field of privacy. It would therefore already be illegal to reproduce this report. We have been instructed to immediately assert all Spiegel's legal actions under the Press Act, including with respect to moral damages of an amount commensurate with the gravity of the claim. offense, which is probably one of the most serious human rights violations of recent years. "
Schertz did not directly challenge the rape allegation; Ronaldo called this "false news" in a Instagram video.
Mayorga said the attack took place early in the morning of June 13, 2009 in a suite at the Palms Place hotel. Ronaldo, who was making a huge transfer between Manchester United and Real Madrid, met Mayorga in a nightclub in Las Vegas and invited him, as well as other people, to come back in his suite.
According to the lawsuit, Mayorga reported the assault to the police later in the day and underwent a medical examination during which evidence was collected in a kit known as the rape kit. A Las Vegas police spokeswoman confirmed that Mayorga had filed a report on 13 July 2009 and had been examined, but she had not indicated the name of the accused person. The case was reopened at the request of Mayorga last month.
Last year, Der Spiegel reported the existence of the colony. The magazine had received documents – including an unsigned copy of the settlement and Mayorga's six-page letter to Ronaldo – via Football Leaks, a WikiLeaks-like website that has published dozens of confidential football-related documents. Der Spiegel said that they had contacted Mayorga several times before the publication, but she had refused to speak.
The Ronaldo agency then called the report a "journalistic fiction" and threatened to sue Der Spiegel.
Among the additional documents obtained by Der Spiegel are the medical examination report and the correspondence between Ronaldo's lawyers. The report indicates that Mayorga was treated at the hospital for two hours and that his wounds were photographed.
The correspondence between Ronaldo's lawyers includes a questionnaire and answers from Ronaldo, his brother-in-law and his cousin, who accompanied him on the night in question. According to Der Spiegel, the answers to the questionnaire were multiple. In one of them, Ronaldo replied that Mayorga "said no and stopped several times" and that she "said that she did not want to, but that she was made available ".
Mayorga's lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, cited his client's complaint, the physical evidence of assault, the questionnaire and the settlement agreement as evidence that his claims were not "false news".
Stovall also promised to "let people know how" repairers "covered and allowed sexual assaults by wealthy and famous people."
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