Millionaire counterclaim from Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers to a woman who took him to trial for alleged rape

Cristiano Ronaldo and his legal team asked the American judge Jennifer Dorsey that Katrhyn Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, pay the footballer more than $626,000 (600,000 euros in exchange). Peter Christiansen, a lawyer for the Portuguese player, demanded that he hold Stovall personally responsible for claiming millions of dollars from the Portuguese in the failed lawsuit over the Las Vegas woman’s rape case more than a decade ago.

The judge, in fact, expelled Stovall from the court on June 10 for “acting in bad faith” and improperly using leaked and stolen documents to keep the case standing, the newspaper publishes. ACE from Spain.

That’s how it ensures ESPNwhich includes the statements made by the judge against the lawyer: “He crossed the border of ethical behavior before filing this action and his disregard for the rules of this court has continued unabated.”

In a 42-page document, Dorsey asserted that dismissing Katrhyn Mayorga’s case without the option of reintroducing it was a severe sanction, but noted that Ronaldo had been seriously harmed by Stovall’s conduct.

Christiansen and his legal team presented the offer on Friday and the amount is much higher than the $ 375,000 they allegedly paid at the time for Mayorga’s silence in the face of his sexual assault complaint.

“Given Stovall’s abuse and flagrant misconduct, Stovall should be personally responsible for ensuring that Ronaldo is reimbursed for having to defend himself against his vexatious behavior and bad faith,” said Cristiano’s lawyer, who has calculated Ronaldo’s fees. his team between 350 and 850 dollars per hour for a total of 1,200 hours of work, according to the same medium.

Ronaldo’s lawyers accuse Stovall of obtaining stolen material containing privileged attorney-client communications and then attempting to make them public by attaching them to court filings.

The case of Kathryn Mayorga

The former model and teacher from Las Vegas assured in her lawsuit that she met Cristiano in a nightclub in the city when she was 25 years old and he was 24. She defended that she went with him and other people to the hotel suite where she was staying the soccer player and alleged that in a bedroom he allegedly sexually assaulted her. Ronaldo’s legal team has not denied that she knew Mayorga and that she had sex in the summer of 2009, but according to them they were consensual.

In 2018, the Las Vegas police reopened the case at the request of Katrhyn Mayorga, but the Clark County prosecutor decided not to file criminal charges in 2019, alleging that too much time had passed to prove what Mayorga said before a jury beyond that he believed a reasonable doubt. (D)