XtraTime Web Desk: Cristiano Ronaldo is furious on a popular German news magazine as it has raised a serious allegation against Portuguese football genius Cristiano Ronaldo.
A woman from the United States has levelled serious accusations against Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese soccer star, says Kathryn Mayorga, 34, raped her in Las Vegas in 2009. Later, Ronaldo paid her $375,000 so that she would never again speak about that night. Her lawyer, the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL reports in its latest issue, is now questioning the validity of that out-of-court settlement in a civil complaint in Nevada.
In DER SPIEGEL, Mayorga has now spoken publicly for the first time about her encounter with Ronaldo nine years ago and tells her version of what took place in his hotel suite.
Ronaldo, Mayorga claims, raped her anally. Afterwards, she says he asked her if she was in pain. “By this time, he’s (…) on his knees. He says the 99 per cent thing.” He insisted, Mayorga says, that he was a “good guy” except for the “one per cent.”
Ronaldo denies the accusations, the sex was consensual, according to him. Mayorga’s lawyer’s claim relies in part on a document, which includes Ronaldo’s description of what happened that night. In that document, the soccer player is quoted as saying: “She said no and stop several times.”
Lawyers for Cristiano Ronaldo said on Friday they would sue German magazine Der Spiegel after it published ‘blatantly illegal’ accusations by an American woman who alleges she was raped by the Portuguese soccer star in 2009.
Ronaldo’s lawyer Christian Schertz said in a statement the report was ‘an inadmissible reporting of suspicions in the area of privacy’, and that he would seek legal redress for his client from the magazine.
The statement was sent to Reuters by Ronaldo’s agent Gestifute in response to a request for comment on the Der Spiegel story. Gestifute did not answer any specific questions about the content of the Der Spiegel report, which Reuters was unable to independently verify.