Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will not be forced to pay millions of dollars in a civil lawsuit to a Nevada woman who once accused him of rape.Ronaldo, age 37, is one of the most highly paid and recognizable sports stars in the world.
He plays for the English Premier League club Manchester United and has captained the national team of his home country, Portugal.Mayorga is a former model who said she met Ronaldo at a nightclub in June 2009 and went back with him and other people to his hotel suite.
Ronaldo allegedly assaulted her in a bedroom.Ronaldo has contended the encounter was consensual. The criminal investigation was dropped by Las Vegas police because Mayorga didn’t identify Ronaldo by name and wouldn’t say where the incident took place, police and prosecutors said.Ronaldo paid Mayorga more than $375,000 as a settlement.
However, an agreement on confidentiality was claimed to have been breached after reports on the incident appeared in Germany’s Der Spiegel in 2017.
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