Las Vegas: Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo has been sued by a Nevada woman accusing him to have raped her in the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and then dispatching a team of ‘fixers’ to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet for USD 3,75,000.
The suit says the woman asked police last month to reopen the criminal case; Las Vegas police confirmed this agency Monday that they have reopened a sexual assault case from 2009 brought by the woman named in the lawsuit. However, Ronaldo’s attorney, Christian Schertz, when contacted did not respond to an email seeking comment.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo who recently moved to Juventus from Real Madrid denied all the allegations against him and in an Instagram video said, “Fake. Fake news. You want to promote by my name. It’s normal. They want to be famous, to say my name. But it is part of the job. I am a happy man and all good.”
The lawsuit claims that the woman, who was then 24, went with a friend to the Rain nightclub at the Palms Hotel and Casino on the night of June 12 in 2009, and met Ronaldo there.
It says he invited a group of people up to his suite ‘to enjoy the view of the Las Vegas strip’ and then into the hot tub; according to the suit, he then barged in on her as she was changing, exposed himself and asked her for oral sex. When she refused, the lawsuit claims, he raped her.