Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, June 12: A rape lawsuit against football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was dismissed by a US district judge in Las Vegas, who chastised the legal team behind the case. The lawsuit of Kathryn Mayorga of Nevada, who claimed she was raped by the Portuguese soccer star in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, was dismissed by Judge Jennifer Dorsey. The judge accused Mayorga’s counsel of “abuses and gross circumvention of the normal litigation process” in a 42-page order released Friday, saying that as a result, “Mayorga loses her opportunity to continue this lawsuit.”
According to US media reports, her counsel attempted to dismiss the case voluntarily last month, but Dorsey concluded that their continuous use of illegally obtained confidential papers required the case to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning it could not be reopened.
Mayorga filed a lawsuit against Ronaldo in September of last year, saying that he sexually abused her. Ronaldo has rejected the allegations.
Mayorga said that, while she agreed to a cash settlement with Ronaldo shortly after the alleged incident reportedly for $375,000 her mental anguish prevented her from participating in the mediation process at the time. Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stovall, made frequent use of “cyber-hacked attorney-client protected materials” in an attempt to resurrect the case, according to Dorsey.
