Cristiano Ronaldo rape lawsuit seeking $25M dismissed over leaked docs: judge

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A U.S. judge has dismissed a 2018 Nevada lawsuit accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of rape in 2009 and requesting the Portuguese soccer star pay the alleged victim $25 million damages after she agreed to accept $375,000 in hush money at the time of the alleged assault, according to court documents.

Judge Jennifer Dorsey dismissed the suit with prejudice. The suit relied on a series of articles called the Football Leaks, which cite leaked documents that contain confidential information from Ronaldo's legal team.  "The article made it clear that its source documents included confidential, internal communications between Ronaldo’s American and European attorneys that were stolen from their databases despite safeguards meant to protect confidential client information," Dorsey's 42-page order states.

The plaintiff's attorney, Leslie Stovall, sought those hacked documents, which Dorsey said "are emblazoned with notices that their contents contain attorney-client communications and attorney work product," and claimed Stovall "failed to inform opposing counsel that he was in possession of such documents despite knowing their obvious privileged nature." The judge further stated that the plaintiff, Kathryn Mayorga — a former model and teacher in Las Vegas — relied on the documents to recount her version of events from the night of the alleged assault that occurred in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, when she was 24 and he was 25.

Mayorga alleges that after meeting Ronaldo, he invited her to his hotel room and offered her something to wear in his hot tub.