Media attention is not allayed around the case that sees Cristiano Ronaldo implicated in an alleged story of rape. The case dates back to 2009, when the Portuguese champion was 24 years old and was in Las Vegas (United States) on vacation. Here he met Kathryn Mayorga, an American at the time one year older than him, who accuses him of violence in the Palms Casino Resort suite. After the revelations of the German weekly Spiegel, the latest news concerns the video published on the internet by the British tabloid The Sun, which shows the night at the disco spent by Ronaldo with the girl at the disco Rain.
First images of Cristiano Ronaldo dancing with rape accuser hours before 'attack' https://t.co/Qn0KSr4gca pic.twitter.com/36zMVUCYmv— The Sun (@TheSun) October 2, 2018
THE VIDEO - Cristiano Ronaldo rejected the accusations, sending everything back to the sender. In the video the two enjoy the evening, the images are taken from the phone of one of those present and are prior to the alleged affair happened shortly after and told by the girl. The same Mayorga has initiated a lawsuit, declaring to have been paid then 375 thousand dollars by the player to silence the whole affair.
THE ANSWER - The Portuguese, on their social channels, responded to the accusations with two tweets: "I deny the accusations that have been made to me." Rape is a reprehensible crime that goes against everything I believe in - wrote CR7 - I am I intend to cancel my name from this story and I refuse to further fuel the media show of those who try to promote myself at my expense, my conscience is clear and will allow me to await with calm the results of the investigations "
I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. 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.— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) October 3, 2018
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