{"id":276796,"date":"2019-07-22T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/cristiano-ronaldo-will-not-face-charges-in-las-vegas-sexual-assault-case\/"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:11:39","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-will-not-face-charges-in-las-vegas-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/cristiano-ronaldo-will-not-face-charges-in-las-vegas-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo Will Not Face Charges in Las Vegas Sexual Assault Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018828\/rs_1024x759-180928152448-1024.Cristiano-Ronaldo-red-carpet.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Cristiano Ronaldo\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Europa Press\/Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.224181360202\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.506297229219\">\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cristiano_ronaldo\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a><\/strong> will not face charges in relation to a 2009 sexual assault allegation leveled against him, E! News can confirm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Clark County District Attorney&#8217;s office declined to prosecute the soccer star because, as they stated in a press release, the alleged incident cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Cristiano Ronaldo has broken his silence on the rape allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>The soccer star took to Twitter on Wednesday to deny the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in. Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then claimed that his &#8220;clear [conscience] will thereby allow me to await with [tranquility] the results of any and all investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>______<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristiano Ronaldo&nbsp;<\/strong>is denying rape allegations made against him.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the soccer player&#8217;s lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-soccer-ronaldo\/ronaldo-lawyers-to-sue-der-spiegel-over-illegal-report-idUKKCN1M82GK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Reuters they are&nbsp;seeking punishment&nbsp;against&nbsp;<em>Der Spiegel<\/em> magazine&nbsp;for publishing &#8220;inadmissible reporting of suspicions in the area of privacy.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"66.642857142857\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.68253968254\">\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/plus\/cristiano-ronaldo-kathryn-mayorga-und-dann-ist-er-auf-mich-drauf-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000159674385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magazine<\/a>, the victim named&nbsp;<strong>Kathryn Mayorga<\/strong>,&nbsp;alleges Ronaldo raped her in June 2009 at a Palms Place hotel room in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old claims she vocally said, &#8220;no,&#8221; to the athlete&#8217;s advances, but he apparently ignored her pleas. Afterwards, she claims he fell to his knees and apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorga&#8217;s lawyer,&nbsp;<strong>Leslie Mark Stovall<\/strong>, claims they later settled the case outside of court, with Mayorga agreeing to never speak of the alleged incident again, in return for $375,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, nearly ten years after settling the dispute, Mayorga and Stovall are seeking to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"66.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23\">\n<p>Stovall&nbsp;explained to&nbsp;<em>Der Spiegel<\/em>, &#8220;The purpose of this lawsuit is to hold Cristiano Ronaldo responsible within a civil court of law for the injuries he has caused Kathryn Mayorga and the consequences of those injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim claims she has had &#8220;serious breakdowns&#8221; in the years following the alleged rape. The American woman said, &#8220;And again, blaming of the rape. And I blame him, and I blame myself for signing that thing.&#8221; For this reason,&nbsp;among others, Stovall believes her NDA should be voided since she was &#8220;too mentally and emotionally traumatized&#8221; to understand what she signed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Ronaldo&#8217;s lawyer,&nbsp;<strong>Christian Schertz<\/strong>, revealed he and his client are going to seek compensation from the magazine for &#8220;moral damages in an amount corresponding to the gravity of the infringement, which is probably one of the most serious violations of personal rights in recent years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>However, the an Editor-in-Chief for the German publication insists they repeatedly reached out to Ronaldo and his team for comment ahead of publishing the article, but received no response.&nbsp;&#8220;We sent written questions, to which there were no answers. Nobody sued us in connection with earlier Ronaldo reports,&#8221; he said in an email to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to Ronaldo&#8217;s lawyer for comment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p><em>(This story was originally published Sept. 28, 2018 at 4:52 p.m. PST.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/972615\/cristiano-ronaldo-s-lawyer-denies-rape-allegations?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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