Lawyers for Cristiano Ronaldo are seeking to inhibit Las Vegas Metro Police (LVMPD) records of an investigation into a dishonor take made against the association football star.
Las Vegas woman Kathryn Mayorga alleges that Ronaldo raped her at his penthouse at the Palms Casino on June 13, 2009. She sued the Lusitanian subject inwards 2018, claiming battery, knowing infliction of emotional distress, coercion, fraud, and insult of a vulnerable person.
In October, a magistrate judge recommended the case follow tossed. That’s because it was mostly based on leaked documents that were privileged communication theory between Ronaldo and his attorneys.
However, it is up to NV District Jennifer Dorsey to determine whether to accept upward the good word and send packing the case.
Stolen Documents
The documents inward interrogation were stolen by the soccer whistleblower website Football Leaks and passed to High German tidings mag Der Spiegel, which ran a story on them inward 2018.
The clause includes conversations reported to feature taken place 'tween Ronaldo and his effectual team. The talks come along to underpin parts of Mayorga’s account statement of the alleged incident at the Palms.
Ronaldo’s lawyers say the conversations have been faked.
The Der Spiegel story prompted Mayorga to sue Ronaldo and caused the LVMPD to reopen the case. They closed in(p) it inwards July 2019, expression the allegations could non live proven beyond a sane doubt.
NYT Fights for Access
Now, The New House of York Times wants the LVMPD to hand o'er the investigative files, which it says the department is legally obligated to do under the NV Public Records Act.
These are understood to contain around 200 of the Football Leaks documents, which were passed to the LVMPD past Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Stovall.
(G)ood make exists to prohibit the revealing of LVMPD’s investigative Indian file because it contains stolen documents and communication theory labeled attorney-client favour and process product, which Plaintiff improperly obtained from an alleged cyber cyber-terrorist from whom her counsel specifically sought-after(a) privileged attorney-client communications and work product,” Ronaldo’s lawyers wrote inwards tribunal filings this month.
“Plaintiff then submitted the stolen documents to LVMPD in financial support of her request that LVMPD reopen a decade-old investigation to pursue Defendant,” they added.
The Times said it would “object to this wrong try to interfere with the public’s compensate to regard governmental documents.”
$375,000 Settlement
In 2010, Mayorga in agreement(p) to sign a non-disclosure concord to drop her arrogate against the Manchester United player for a $375,000 settlement.
But Stovall argues she was “coerced” into signing the arrangement past Ronaldo’s “legal fixers” at a clip when she was “mentally incapacitated.”
Ronaldo has publically denied raping Mayorga, claiming they had consensual sex.