Spanish giant, Real Madrid are planning to take legal action against a Portuguese newspaper that reported the club forced Cristiano Ronaldo to settle with the woman who accused him of rape.
In a statement, the club said the information published by Correio da
Manhã is “categorically false” and was printed in an effort to
“seriously damage the image of this club”.
Real said they have “absolutely no knowledge of any of the
information that the newspaper published with regard to the player
Cristiano Ronaldo, and therefore the
club was unable to take action on a
matter of which it had no knowledge.”
The club are expected to take legal action against a Portuguese
newspaper that suggested the club pressurised Cristiano Ronaldo into
seeking a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with his accuser.
This comes a day after Correio da Manhã published an article saying
that part of Ronaldo’s defence will be to say that Real forced him to
settle. It said Ronaldo was against settling and always declared his
innocence.
According to the newspaper, they said what they published and everything that went into the article was checked.
Kathryn Mayorga, 34, filed a lawsuit late last month
in Nevada saying she was raped by Ronaldo in Las Vegas in 2009. The
teacher who was an aspiring model at the time of the alleged assault,
claims Ronaldo raped her in a bathroom at the Palms Hotel and Casino in
Las Vegas in the early hours of June 13, 2009.
But Cristiano Ronaldo has repeatedly denied the accusations but
admitted that they had consensual sex after which ‘they returned to Rain
nightclub and spent several hours together.’
He also admitted that he paid Mayorga $375,000 (£284,000) hush-money
payment in 2010, after she signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep
quiet about their hook up.
