Christiano Ronaldo is now facing the possibility of being tried for rape in the U.S. state of Nevada.
It follows the claim from former hotel hostess Kathryn Mayorga that the Portugal captain raped her in his £770-a-night penthouse room at the Hotel Palms Place in Las Vegas in 2009.
Photos show her partying with him at a nightclub .
The claims were first published by the German magazine, Der Spiegel. Ronaldo’s lawyers have said they will sue the publication.
In a statement, Ronaldo’s lawyer Christian Schertz said ‘the reporting in Spiegel is blatantly illegal’. He has added that he had been instructed to seek compensation for
‘moral damages’ over ‘probably one of the most serious violations of personal rights in recent years’.
According to Mailonline, in a lengthy and detailed interview, Miss Mayorga told the German news magazine Der Spiegel how Ronaldo apologised after forcing himself upon her despite repeated rejections.
She says he went ‘down on his knees and said:
‘‘-nine per cent of me is a good guy, I just don’t know about the other one per cent.’’ ’
Claiming to have suffered years of mental torment and suicidal thoughts as a result, Miss Mayorga says Ronaldo’s lawyers purchased her silence in 2010 with a £288,000 out-of-court settlement, something she now regrets.
Prior to the settlement, the magazine cites documents claiming that U.S. lawyers hired a private detective to follow Miss Mayorga and ‘dig up dirt’, watching her house, following her and finding out information about her parking tickets.
She also claims his lawyers tried to ‘discredit’ her, saying that her hostess job was not a ‘good girl’ job’.
As part of the settlement, Ronaldo’s legal team reportedly insisted that Miss Mayorga be prohibited from mentioning the player even to her therapist. If the allegation is proven, that ‘one per cent’ of flawed character will be fatal for a player used to having the world at his feet.
According to Der Spiegel, Miss Mayorga, now 34, contacted police shortly after the alleged attack but initially refused to identify her assailant. She then decided not to pursue it through the criminal system and chose the civil path, and a settlement.
Yesterday, Ronaldo, a father of four, counter-attacked, accusing Miss Mayorga of peddling ‘fake, fake news’, while his lawyer in Germany promised legal action against Der Spiegel.
But the magazine is standing by its story.
Miss Mayorga, who until recently was working as a teacher in Las Vegas, says she has been encouraged to come forward by the more favourable climate created by the #MeToo movement, and the opportunity to discover if others have been abused by Ronaldo.
‘It’s something I’ve always wondered about,’ she tells the magazine.
Explaining why she accepted what is in effect hush money, paid from a company account in the British Virgin Islands used to house some of the player’s sponsorship earnings, Miss Mayorga explains: ‘
It’s a pretty famous guy. So, I’m terrified. I’m scared.’
She goes on:
‘The reason why I signed the contract in the first place [was] because I didn’t want my name out there.’
But with the passing of time she is now ready to confront an episode that changed her character, resulting in heavy drinking and suicidal thoughts.
‘I wanted to teach him a lesson. I wanted him to deal with it, to have to face me,’ she says, adding that she accepted the money only to finance her treatment.
‘I’m not going to pay for my goddamn treatment. He raped me. He’s going to pay for my goddamn treatment!’
Relating how she encountered the footballer while drinking with friends in the hotel’s night club, Miss Mayorga says:
‘He just came up to me . . . grabbed my arm. And he was like: ‘‘You! Come with me!” I was like, are you joking?’
Paparazzi pictures show her talking to and dancing with the footballer and she says they exchanged phone numbers and she later got a text from him inviting her and a friend to a party in his suite.
She says he suggested they went for a swim but while she changed in one of the bathrooms, Ronaldo entered, exposed himself and begged her to touch him. He finally relented but insisted on a kiss. But the kiss turned into more.
‘He starts to come on to me very strong,’ she says. ‘And he starts to do stuff to me and touch me and grab me. I pushed him away and kept saying No.’
A friend of the player interrupted the encounter, she says, allowing her to finish dressing. But Ronaldo renewed his approach, despite Miss Mayorga allegedly telling him ‘Listen dude, this is not going to happen. No, No, No.’
Still, he persisted. ‘I turned away. He tried to take my underwear off. I turned away from him and curled up into a ball. And that’s when he jumped on me.’ she says, claiming she was then raped, without a condom.
‘After he assaulted me, he wouldn’t let me leave again. He wouldn’t let me leave. And he was calling me ‘baby, baby’. He gave me this look, this guilty look. Almost like he felt bad. I don’t remember but I’m pretty sure he said “sorry” or “are you hurt?” ‘And by this time, he’s . . . on his knees. He says the 99 per cent thing.’
Her friend who had accompanied her to the party, said Miss Mayorga emerged from the bathroom in a complete state, her hair was dishevelled and her make-up smudged.’
According to reports, which have not been verified by this newspaper, during negotiations for the gagging settlement, in December 2009, Ronaldo claims the sex was consensual.
But in an email sent the previous September by members of his Portuguese legal team, the player appears to admit that Miss Mayorga asked him to stop and said ‘no’ several times.
Referred to as ‘X’, the player reportedly recalls that the alleged victim was lying on her side.
‘It was rude. We didn’t change position — 5/7 minutes. She said she didn’t want to, but she made herself available.’
And further on:
‘But she kept saying no. “Don’t do it. I’m not like the others.” I apologised afterwards. ‘She didn’t complain about it being brutal. She complained that I forced her. She didn’t say anything about wanting to go to the police.’
There are certainly contradictions in the accounts. The footballer says Miss Mayorga performed a sex act on him which she denies. Ronaldo says they engaged in foreplay in the bathroom.
He also portrays the encounter in the club differently. He says Miss Mayorga and her friends asked to be let into the VIP section and had had a few drinks. The alleged victim, according to some of Ronaldo’s companions, didn’t appear disturbed in any way when she later emerged from his hotel suite.
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