Cristian Ronaldo sues German magazine over rape allegations.

Lawyers for the former Manchester
United star are to take legal action
against Der Spiegel over “blatantly
illegal” allegations.

Kathryn Mayorga, 34, was unveiled on
Friday as the woman who has accused
Ronaldo of sexually assaulting her in a
Las Vegas hotel room. The Juventus star
was on holiday in Sin City in 2009 with
his cousin and brother-in-law when he
met the part-time model.

During the alleged incident, she claimed
Ronaldo fell to his knees and said he
was “99 per cent a good guy” who was
let down by the “one per cent”.
Later, Ronaldo allegedly paid her
£287,000 as an out-of-court settlement
which contracted her to never speak
about her claims.

The footballer, 33, denies the allegations
– which first surfaced on the Football
Leaks website in April 2017. According
to court documents Der Spiegel claims to
have seen, Ronaldo insists the cex was
consensual.

His lawyers, Schertz Bergmann
Rechtsanwälte, issued a statement
denying Mayorga’s rape claim saying
they would sue for “compensation for
moral damages”.

His solicitor, Professor Dr Christian
Schertz said: “The reporting in SPIEGEL
is blatantly illegal. It violates the
personal rights of our client Cristiano
Ronaldo in an exceptionally serious way.

“This is an inadmissible reporting of
suspicions in the area of privacy. It
would therefore already be unlawful to
reproduce this reporting.

“We have been instructed to immediately
assert all existing claims under press law
against SPIEGEL, in particular,
compensation for moral damages in an
amount corresponding to the gravity of
the infringement, which is probably one
of the most serious violations of
personal rights in recent years.”

In a video published online by the
magazine, Mayorga’s Las Vegas lawyer
Leslie Mark Stovall said: “Kathryn was
sexually assaulted in June 2009 by an
individual named Cristiano Ronaldo.”
He told Spiegel he had filed a civil
complaint seeking to declare the non-
disclosure agreement void.

“The purpose of this lawsuit is to hold
Cristiano Ronaldo responsible within a
civil court of law for the injuries he has
caused Kathryn Mayorga and the
consequences of those injuries,” he said.