Cristiano Ronaldo has won 278,000 from the lawyer of his rape accuser after her sex attack claims were dismissed, glamsquad reports
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On Wednesday, February 15, a US judge ordered Kathryn Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stovall, to personally hand over the money to Ronaldo.
It comes after the 38-year-old former Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Juventus forward claimed the attorney’s “reckless conduct” in the case had prejudiced him.
Cristiano Ronaldo receives $334,637 from the lawyer who represented his rape accuser Kathryn Mayorga after s*x attack claims are dismissed.
The actor has always denied raping Mayorga, 40, in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, claiming they had consensual s*x, and no charges have ever been filed.
Mayorga claimed Ronaldo paid her $275,000 in 2010 to keep her quiet about the incident and prevent her from filing criminal charges.
However, eight years later, after Football Leaks revealed details of communications between Ronaldo’s lawyers, she filed a civil lawsuit seeking millions more.
Then, in June, US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey dismissed that claim, citing her dissatisfaction with how documents filed with the court were obtained.
Ronaldo would not have incurred a majority of the fees and costs that he spent on this litigation if the plaintiff counsel had not acted in bad faith, said the judge in her most recent ruling.
The judge also rejected former Mayorga’s request that Ronaldo produce his contract with his lawyer to see if he had received any fee reductions.
Stovall has been accused by the judge of tainting the case beyond redemption with his use of hacked documents revealing conversations between Ronaldo and his lawyers about the rape allegations.
Ronaldo and his lawyer have stated numerous times that the documents were forged in an attempt to defame him.
He was awarded more than half of the 506,000 in legal fees he was attempting to recover, but not the entire amount.
It was clear from the start that Mayorga’s allegations were based on stolen materials, said the Las Vegas-based judge.
Although he had to acknowledge the case’s dubious underpinnings, Ronaldo bears at least some of the blame for it dragging on for so long.
As a result, I decline to award fees for the work done by Ronaldo’s attorneys in discovery or trial preparation, because that work could have been avoided.