Leslie Stovall: Last News

Cristiano Ronaldo's rape accuser has appealed against a US judge's decision to dismiss a civil case against the Manchester United star.Kathryn Mayorga, 37, accuses Ronaldo, also 37, of attacking her in a penthouse suite in Las Vegas in 2009. The footballer has always denied the allegation. Mayorga's lawyers are now preparing for a court fight with the Portuguese star's legal team in San Francisco on Tuesday later this week.

A Nevada woman who accused footballer Cristiano Ronaldo of rape, has had her civil lawsuit dismissed by a LasVegas judge on Friday in part as a punishment for the alleged conduct of her lawyer.The woman, Kathryn Mayorga, had been trying to claim damages after she alleged the footballer raped her while in Las Vegas in 2009. US District judge Jennifer Dorsey made the decision to throw the case out on Friday, after the woman’s lawyer Leslie Mark Stovall was found by her to have used “purloined” confidential documents, which had tainted the case beyond redemption.The Manchester United player has never disputed that he slept with the woman, but instead has always maintained that it was consensual sex and that a confidentiality agreement currently in place means the pair cannot talk about it publicly.

A U.S. judge has dismissed a 2018 Nevada lawsuit accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of rape in 2009 and requesting the Portuguese soccer star pay the alleged victim $25 million damages after she agreed to accept $375,000 in hush money at the time of the alleged assault, according to court documents.