In response to allegations Kathryn Mayorga made in a lost cause in 2018, Cristiano Ronaldo’s legal team is asking a U.S. judge to force the women’s lawyer to pay the star striker more than $626,000.
Nearly a decade before the case began, Ronaldo was charged with rape, and the charge has been dangling over his head ever since. The lawsuit against Ronaldo was recently settled by a federal judge who found Kathryn Mayorga’s judges of changing the case by relying on hacked documents. Ronaldo has consistently denied the accusations.
Mayorga claims that Ronaldo sexually assaulted a woman on June 13, 2009, at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, but the LVMPD chose not to investigate the claim. As a result, Ronaldo and Mayorga’s sides reached an agreement on a settlement in 2010; nonetheless, the accusations were still kept a secret at this time.
As reported by The Independent, Ronaldo’s lawyer, Peter Christiansen, has asked U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey to hold Mayorga’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, personally responsible for the total cost involved.
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Mayorga claimed more than $25 million in damages, as well as Stovall’s legal costs, in his civil complaint, which was initially filed in state court in 2018 and transferred to federal court in 2019.
According to the article, he calculated legal fees at a rate of between $350 and $850 per hour and put in close to 1,200 hours of work.
