New documents prove that soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo paid a woman who accused him of rape $375,000 in exchange for her silence.
The accuser, Kathryn Mayorga, alleges that she met Ronaldo in Las Vegas during June 2009. He invited her up to his apartment and then walked in on her in the bathroom where he “begged me to touch his penis for 30 seconds,” she said, according to Der Spiegel. He then allegedly forced her into the bedroom and anally raped her.
After conferring with a lawyer, she was advised not to go public with the allegation. Mayorga and Ronaldo later agreed to an out-of-court settlement in which he paid her $375,000 and she promised never to speak publicly of the alleged assault.
Mayorga nevertheless went public last year in a Nevada court, where she sued to void the previous agreement. She then filed an additional lawsuit alleging battery, coercion, abuse of a vulnerable person, racketeering, and defamation. She argues that she was not in a fair state of mind when she went to settlement meetings.
In response to the suit, documentation that surfaced Monday confirmed that Ronaldo did pay her $375,000.
“Mr. Ronaldo paid plaintiff the sum of $375,000.00 and both parties agreed to be bound by explicit confidentiality and non-disparagement obligations,” his new Friday filing obtained by the New York Daily News states. “Nowhere in the complaint does plaintiff contend she was not paid the full $375,000.00.”
Ronaldo argued against her statements, claiming she was not in a reasonable state of mind because she “threatened to walk out” multiple times.
