The lawyers of the Turin Juventus soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo have admitted that they paid $ 375,000 to the woman who accused him of violating her in 2009 "to maintain the confidentiality" of the case, the CNN television network reported Tuesday.
The court document revealed Tuesday by CNN indicates that Ronaldo acknowledged paying Kathryn Mayorga $ 375,000 under a settlement and confidentiality agreement, after the woman accused him of having sexually assaulted her in a Las Vegas hotel.
The Portuguese soccer player, meanwhile, has argued that the meeting between the two, which took place in June 2009, was agreed.
Mayorga filed a lawsuit in 2018 in a Nevada state court to invalidate said pact, arguing that Cristiano Ronaldo's legal team took advantage of his "fragile emotional state" to force her to sign it.
However, the lawyers of the player considered that the confidentiality agreement between the two prevents the latest claims of Mayorga, which include allegations of extortion attempts by Ronaldo, and said that the woman did not present sufficient evidence to prove that she lacked the capacity mental to accept the terms of the covenant.
After the lawsuit filed by the woman, the Las Vegas Police announced that the investigation into the alleged violation had been reopened, although no criminal charges have been filed against the athlete.
In July of this year, the Office of the District Attorney of La Vegas announced that they would not file criminal charges against the player, assuring that "the case could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt."
According to the lawyers of the alleged victim, Mayorga, who was then 24 years old and now 34, temporarily left the US To get away from the controversy.
The player, who now plays for Juventus in Turin (Italy), has repeatedly denied Mayorga's accusations.
«I strongly deny the accusations that have been addressed to me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything I am and what I believe. I don't want to feed the media show created by people who want to promote themselves at my expense, ”Ronaldo wrote on his Twitter account in October 2018.
The soccer player assured that his conscience "is clean" and that this allows him "to wait with calm the results of all kinds of investigations".