Cristiano Ronaldo is asking a US judge to order a female lawyer to pay more than $626,000 to the international football star after claiming that Ronaldo raped a woman in Las Vegas nearly a decade ago. Millions of dollars were demanded for.
In an explicitly worded court document, Ronaldo’s attorney, Peter Christiansen, asks U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey to hold the woman’s attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, personally responsible for the amount.
Stovall did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages on Wednesday. Text messages associating Larissa Drohobyczer were not answered. Stovall has to file a response in court by July 8.
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Dorsey kicked Stovall out of court on June 10 to punish him for “bad faith conduct” and improper use of leaked and stolen documents to advance the case.
The judge found that Stovall “exceeded the limits of ethical behavior prior to filing this action, and his disregard for the rules of this court continues unabated.”
Dorsey, in his 42-page order, said the outright dismissal of plaintiff Katherine Mayorga’s case without the option to re-file was a serious sanction, but said Ronaldo was harmed by Stovall’s conduct.
The Associated Press doesn’t typically name people it says have been victims of sexual assault, but Mayorga agreed to make their names public through Stovall and Drohobeiser.
The bid for court costs and fees for Ronaldo’s lawyers, filed on Friday, dwarfs the $375,000 quiet-money payment Mayorga received in 2010 for signing a confidentiality agreement and dropping a criminal complaint in which it was alleged that she was sexually assaulted.
“Given Stovall’s abuses and open misconduct, Stovall should be made personally responsible for ensuring that Ronaldo is reimbursed for defending him against his harrowing and bad faith conduct,” said Christiansen for reimbursement. stated in the request. He raised attorney fees to between $350 and $850 an hour for about 1,200 hours of work.
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Mayorga’s civil suit, filed in state court in 2018 and moved to federal court in 2019, ultimately sought more than $25 million in damages, plus attorney’s fees for Stovall.
It was alleged that Ronaldo or his associates violated the confidentiality agreement before a German news outlet, Der Spiegel, published an article in April 2017 titled “Cristiano Ronaldo Secret”, which the court filing termed “Whistleblower Portal Football Leaks”. Based on documents received from
Ronaldo’s lawyers accused Stovall of obtaining stolen material containing privileged attorney-client communications and then repeatedly attempting to make them public by attaching them to court filings.
A second court filing Friday asked Dorsey to seal the portion of the court record containing the confidential documents.
Mayorga is a former model and teacher who lives in the Las Vegas area. Her lawsuit states that she met Ronaldo at a nightclub and accompanied him and others to his hotel room, where he alleged that he assaulted her in a bedroom. She was 25 years old at that time. He was 24 years old.
Ronaldo’s legal team does not dispute that Ronaldo met Mayorga and had sex in June 2009, but said it was consensual.
Ronaldo, now 37 years old, is one of the highest paid and recognizable sports stars in the world. He plays for English Premier League club Manchester United and has captained the national team of his home country Portugal. He spent several recent years playing for Juventus, a club based in Turin in Italy.
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Las Vegas police reopened their rape investigation after Mayorga’s lawsuit was filed in 2018, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson decided not to pursue criminal charges in 2019. He said that a lot of time has elapsed in proving the case before the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
Stovall said Mayorga did not break the hush-money agreement. Her lawsuit sought to quash it, accusing Ronaldo and the reputation-preserving “fixers” of conspiracy, defamation, breach of contract, coercion and fraud.
The Las Vegas police report compiled about Ronaldo after Mayorga filed his lawsuit in 2018 may still go public as part of a court action pending in state court in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is asking a judge to determine whether it has to comply with a public records request by The New York Times. The department contends that no allegation was made in the case.
A US magistrate judge in Las Vegas said in March that a protective order that imposed Dorsey’s 2010 order restraining him from releasing the settlement does not prevent the department from releasing its file.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is also part of the case. Attorney Margaret MacLachey, representing the newspapers, did not immediately respond to messages.
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