A Nevada woman has lost her bid in a U.S. court to force international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the $375,000 in hush money she received after claiming he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas kicked the case out of court on Friday to punish the accuser Kathryn Mayorga’s attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, for ‘bad-faith conduct’ and the use of ‘purloined’ confidential documents that the judge said tainted the case beyond redemption.
Dorsey said in her 42-page order that dismissing a case outright with no option to file it again is a severe sanction, but said Ronaldo, 37, had been harmed by Stovall´s conduct.
Mayorga, 39, claims that the Juventus star sexually assaulted her in 2009 after they met at the Rain Nightclub in the Palms hotel.
Mayorga initially sued Ronaldo and claimed that he’d handed her $375,000 to buy her silence in an out-of-court settlement in 2010.
However, she pursued a criminal case against the star after saying that she lacked the mental capacity to have made the agreement.
