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[BusiTheKing]

It sounds like there's a good chance it's real. An investigation conducted by five journalists and published by Der Spiegel who have a solid reputation.

 

[FlaFCB]

That was cheap. Whoever was, should had demanded more.

 

[Aryagorn]

Is it a woman?!?

 

[Yannik]

Ronaldo camp is firing out of all holes already. Really have to say, that article looks like some pretty nice piece of investigative journalism there. There's are translated versions on reddit, if anyone is interested.

 

[CuleLife4Life]

I remember he was detained abut 10/11 years ago about an issue in a London hotel as well. Is it the same case?

 

[Horatio]

Ronaldo camp is firing out of all holes already. Really have to say, that article looks like some pretty nice piece of investigative journalism there. There's are translated versions on reddit, if anyone is interested.

link?

 

[El Flaco]

Official statement from Gestifute (football agency owned by Jorge Mendes, agent to Cristiano) regarding the case.

https://gestifute.com/comunicado-cristiano-ronaldo/

 

[El Flaco]

link?

Found a summary from that original Der Spiegel article

• Ronaldo paid 375,000 usd to a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

• This happened the morning of June 13, 2009 in Vegas.

• The woman reported the alleged assault to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police the same day. She didn't provide a name but she spoke of a "public figure" and an "athlete".

• Both parts reached an agreement seven months later before an intermediary (mediator?) of the state of Nevada.

• Carlos Osorio, his lawyer, signed the agreement.

• In the agreement Ronaldo is referred as Mr. D and the woman as Ms. P.

• The woman, in her twenties, agreed to drop all the charges against him and to give him the names of all the people she had talked.

• The woman also agreed to destroy any electronic or written material generated or received as a result of the case.

• The agreement specified that the woman could write a letter to Ronaldo.

• Der Spiegel has also had access to that letter, in which she describes in detail her view of the alleged sexual assault case.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...l_claims_cristiano_ronaldo_agreed_to/dg9gy1m/

Here's the full translated version of the Der Spiegel article [MENTION=19371]Yannik[/MENTION] was talking about.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

 

[TornAndFrayed]

The victim refuses to come forward and confirm the veracity of the accusation

Probably because she'd lose all the settlement's money. Extremely common in the US in such cases. The fact that Gestifute is using it as an argument makes me think he is guilty.

 

[Yannik]

link?

Part 1

Okay so that shit is written like a novel, like literally the intro is a large text about where he was born, how religious he is and that he wears a religious necklace ("The white Rosary") etc and spiritual quotes from him etc. I'm trying to ignore all the stylistic device stuff to keep it a bit shorter.

The Secret of Cristiano Ronaldo

An American woman in Las Vegas goes to the police. She claims Cristiano Ronaldo has ***** her. Wether that actually happened has never been found out. Lawyers were taking care of the case, the Real-Star paid $375k to the woman. [...] the white rosary will also be recalled by a young women, that met Ronaldo on the 12th June 2009 in Las Vegas. Ronaldo was on holidays with his cousin and the pretty American was a random acquaintance after a long party night. A flirt. Then her and the famous footballer ended up in the bedroom of a suite in the Palms Place Hotel.

According to police reports it was already early in the morning then. What happened in said night has later been described by Susan K. in a letter to Ronaldo, which she wrote 1 year after their meeting. In it Susan K. accused Ronaldo of having ***** her. The white Rosary shows up somewhere around the middle of the letter. "You climbed onto me from the back", Susan K. wrote "with a white Rosary around the neck!!" Followed by two questions that she finished with exclamation marks. "What would god think of this!!! What would god think of you!!!" Susan K.s letter is accessible to SPIEGEL. It belongs to a collection of documents that Football Leaks has provided to the news magazine. The letter goes over almost 6 pages, a furious denunciation.

But were these narratives of Susan K. actually true? It's content is controversial, it can damage the reputation of a man that belongs to the greatest of the world sport. But given the possibility that the story of Susan K. might be true, it has to be told. Because it throws a shade on a longtime unknown part of the great Cristiano-Ronaldo-Story, a heroic saga that might be darker than many of his fans thought.
There is another document, which revolves around the happenings in the early morning hours of the 13. June 2009 in appartement 57306. It is about a "Settlement Memorialization", an extrajudicial agreement between Susan K. and Ronaldo. This contract, that includes 11 clauses, is supposed to keep Susan Ks. mouth shut. Contrary to her silence Ronaldo has to pay her $375k.
In the document Susan has the alias "Ms.P" and Ronaldo is "Mr.D". Clause #8 says "Ms.P agrees to provide Mr.D with the names of all the persons she told about the accusation of the **** accusation and who'm she revealed Mr.Ds identity. Furthermore she she explains that there are no further persons, whom she told about this incident." In clause #11 it says: "Ms.P will assure, that she destroys all written or electronic records made as a result of the incident." Should she violate any of the clauses, than she will have to pay back the payment. Should Mr.D take damage due to any type of indiscretion, she will have to repay the money aswell. The contract was signed at the 12th January 2010 by Susan K. and several lawyers. Ronaldo has not signed personally. For him, his portuguese lawyer Carlos Osório de Castro did that, who is managing juridically matter since years around the footballer.

[...]

SPIEGEL has tried to speak to Susan K., her faily or her lawyers. Almost noone wants to make a statement, noone wants to be quoted. There are good reasons for that: The fear of headlines. That everything comes up again. And of course the agreement, signed 7 years ago. It appears like a wall.

Susan K., whose name got changed, lives in Las Vegas in an appartement complex with a safe driveway. She is in her mid 30s, works with children. K. originates from the upper middleclass. The house of her parents lies in one of the better areas of Las Vegas, well-groomed dooryard, large garage, wide view over the city. In June 2009 K. was married. Which role her husband - that she is now divorced to - played during that time is unknown. It isn't mentioned in any of the numerous documents and emails that SPIEGEL has access to. When Spiegel tried to contact K. via telephone at the end of March and tried to talk to her about the agreement with Ronaldo, her voice shook: "No comment." she said hangs up.

A few days later, at a meeting at her house, K. almost runs in panic. Clause #4 is telling her what to do if third parties are approach her for informations around the incidents in June 2009. She has to "respond nothing". Should someone talk to her on the street she has to "walk on". An invisible regisseur is staging her life.

[...]

Nowadays the appartement 57306, the one in which Ronaldo dwelled costs around $1.000 per night. Included are a kitchen, a big living-room, 2 bedrooms with kingsize-beds each connected to luxury bathrooms.The clou is a jacuzze on the balcony from which you can see the skyline of the city. Ronaldo lived in the glamarous suite for several days. It was the summer where he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid for the former world record sum of 94m€.

At the evening of the 12th June, a friday, Ronaldo goes out with his companion in Las Vegas. They party in a nearby nightclub. In a seperated VIP-area Ronaldo meets Susan K. The further course of the evening has been explained by K. in the letter she later wrote: She gave him her number. He called her later and invited her to a party. Then they went into his penthouse. When K. arrived with a friend, Ronaldo and his friends went into the jacuzzi. He offered her swimwear. When she went to get changed, he followed her. They kissed. Ronaldo, as K. said, wanted more. But she wanted back to the others. He took her, and laid her on the bed. She tried to protect herself with both hands. "I repeatedly screamed No, No, No, No und begged you to stop. I was never this scared in my life." said K. in her letter. When it was over Ronaldo turned towards her. I'm not a bad guy to 99%, he allegedly said. "That one last percent, I can't explain." This is how K. describes it in the letter.

Ronaldo's lawyer outright rejects the accusations of ****. It is an untenable assertion. Who is Cristiano Ronaldo? There's no second prominent footballer, that has such a clear self-perception. When he celebrates after goals, legs wide, chin stretched up to the sky and sparkling eyes - posing in front of the loud fans - his hands on the hips, all muscles flexed. A scenery of a man, that feels himself like an Übermensch. Perfect, omnipotent, unrivaled, godlike.

In her letter to Ronaldo Susan K says: "I wish I could tell the whole world who you really are." The world only knows the footballer Ronaldo. His goals, his dribblings, his selfishness. People know, that he earns up to 40m€ in a year at Real Madrid. That he likes kids. That he worships his mum. They saw him crying, when he got carried off the field injured during the EC in Franc. They saw him in pure euphory, when Portugal won the final even without him. Ronaldo is more than just a good footballer. He is the idol of a young generation that copies every of his poses, every of his tricks and every of his haircuts. He is a marketing icon. In Ronaldo's hometown Madeira an airport is named after him. The same island also inhabits a Ronaldo-Musuem. In front of it stands a big statue of the idol. It shows him in football pants - with absurdly accentuated manliness. Ronaldo is a sex-symbol. At the Ballon D'Or Gala in Zürich girls screeched when he drove past them. There are numerous photos picturing the star in underwear. He loves his body, for whom he works out in the gym and is envied by all men.
What women mean to the star, is hard to say. He had relationships, affairs. Right now he is liaised. He has a 6 year old son, Cristiano junior. The mother is unknown. The young one is on Ronaldo's side for as much as possible.

2005 Ronaldo was already once accused of **** on a female. The then 20 year old striker of Manchester United was asked out by the police. He denied the accusations, charges were never pressed. It happens from time to time that celebrities fall viction to blackmailing. At the end only Susan K. and Ronaldo know what really happened in the the early morning hours of the penthouse in Las Vegas. She wrote her version down in the letter. SPIEGEL asked Ronaldo for a statement. He lets his Municher lawyer Johannes Kreile respond: "The allegations that your questions are suggesting, can only be inapplicable dismissed." the lawyer wrote. His client will "take legal action against any untrue factual claim aswell as any violations of his personal rights." The lawyer also demands SPIEGEL to "refrain from publishing any coverage of the complex".

 

[Yannik]

Part 2

In the the documents that were analyzed by SPIEGEL, there is also commentfrom which it is apparent how the footballer explained his own version of the story to his lawyer Osório de Castro. Thus Ronaldo had sex with Susan K. After that he went to bed, she went back to the Jacuzzi. She did no show any signs of indisposition.
Was it consensual sex? Is K. playing a fake game? So good that Ronaldo's lawyers decided to to pay right away rather than to let a court decide. What is indeed fact is that K. has reported to the police on 2:16pm on the same day of the alleged abuse. There is a protocoll, that lists the call at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. SPIEGEL has a print version of it. In the so-called CAD-Report the lawsuit has a file reference, that is also mentioned in the settlement between K. and Ronaldo. In the CAD-Report is under the column "Type" the cause of the phonecall characterised: 426. The code for reported sexual crime. The police officer that speaks to K. notes that the caller was distraught, crying and unable to give the name of the presumed offender. It involved a public person, an athlete. The officer notes that K. hasn't washed herself.
Shortly after 3pm a police patrol came to K. The officers were reporting per repeatedly radio transmitting into the headquarter where another officer notes that the presumed victim wants to go to a hospital to udnergo a "****-kit". That is a special medical checkup for people that fell victim to sexual violence, at which marks are ensured and phtographed.
Shortly before 4pm the policemen took K. to the University Medical Center. The drive lasted 26minutes. At 5:15pm the CAD-Report notes that K, could only give vague descriptions to the actual crime scene. *It was a hotel nearby the Flamino Road. The Palms Place is at the Flamingo Road. The treatment in the University Medical Center costed 2976,52$. For what that is, isn't further shown in the documents that SPIEGEL has.
In the letter to Ronaldo K. wrote that he caused injuries to her rectum.It isn't known wether K. actually pressed charges after her checkup at the hospital. From the documents it is apparent that she possibly backed away from it, scared of the consequences. A lawsuit against a worldstar means camera-crews sieging her frontdoor. Many assertions like these are made, the result is uncertain, the headlines keep you awake for the entire life.
Maybe K. didn't didn't want to expose her family to that. Yet K. still doesn't want to let the matter rest. She took a lawyer, Mary S. (name changed) had a small law office in an office complex in the southern part of Las Vegas. The building is surrounded by apartment buildings and a nursing home. The incident that her client then told her about would put her to limit for the next months. In the middle of july S. wrote a mail to Ronaldo's solicitor in England. She represented the prosecutor in Las Vegas in an incident against the footballer. The solicitor CCed the mail to Ronaldo-lawyer Carlos Osório de Castro in Portugal: "What is this about?" Osório replies "No idea."
By the end of july it was clear that this was about something controversial. By now more lawyers are tracking the case, including a star lawyer from California that already represented multiple celebrities in court. Ronaldo's lawyers exchange advises, how to deal with this the best way possible. Then one of them suggested they should examine the suite in Palms Place Hotel to get a rough idea of the alleged crime scene. A catalogue including 274 question to Ronaldo is created. He is supposed to answer them verbaly. In the manuscript Susan K. is aliased as Ms.C.

- Question #60: "What were the circulstances like during the first encounter with Ms.C"
- Question #80: "did Ms.C took drugs earlier that evening?"
- Question #141: "What the first type of physical contact you had with Ms.C after leaving the jacuzzi-area?"
- Question #152: "Did sexual penetration happen?"
- Question #158: "has there been any roughness in your sexual behaviour?"
- Question #163: "Did Ms.C yell or scream?"
- Question #165: "Did Ms.C use words like stop or no or not or something like that?" - A bold note followed: Ms.Cs lawyer told us that her client claimed, you repeatedly apologized to her after the sex"
- Question #190: "did you apologize to her after the sex?"
- Question #270: "In which physical and mental state did Ms.C leave the suite."

The questions were also very often revolving around a blonde woman that accompanied K. into appartement 57306 that night. She is an important witness. Der SPIEGEL tried to contact her aswell, but just like Susan K. she was scared to talk.

In autumn 2009 the first negotiations about an amicable arrangement began. In the USA many cases of sexual violence are solved by so-called settlements, in which the victim and the offernder agree upon terms without the realization of an actual trial. **** is the 2nd worst crime in Nevada after murder. In case one gets convicted, a lifelong prison sentence might await. However, to be convicted the guilt must be proven to an ensuring probability - and that is especially difficult at sexual crimes. It often ends simply in he said - she said. Many victims are aiming to start civil proceedings rather than penal proceedings. The aim of this is not to convict the the presumed offeneder, but to financially compensate the victim. The burden of proof lies a lot lower in this case, it needs to be only more than 50% likely that the presumed offender commited the crime.

However civil proceedings do also come with downsides. Although the victim can request the case runs under pseudonyms, it is still public so of course there are no certainties that anonymity is maintained. Because of that many victims prefer to solve the case extrajudicial, for example within the scope of a mediation. And from that they then reach a settlement. Such a procedure can be advantageious for both parties. This way the identities of both victim and offender can be protected, it also doesn't take as long as a trial. The burdening details of the **** do not have to be recited.

In the case of K. versus Ronaldo it took long till they had a mediation schedule. In the December of 2009 Osório de Castro is being informed that Susan K. plans to meet with a police man - and this investigator also wants to speak to her friend, the witness. Osório de Castro rushed his US-collegues: "Clock is ticking, we have to decide how we want to proceed. And we have to prepare for a battle, this way or the other."
At the 12th January 2010 it does come to a meeting between the 2 parties. The mediator is also present. Ronaldo isn't. Apparently Susan K. was consternated about that. After a long negotiations, as one of the solicitor noted the 2 sides agreed for a settlement. The sum that Ronaldo was supposed to pay K. was written down in the settlement memorialization: 375.000$. That's what Ronaldo earned in a week at Madrid.

Even until the summer the lawyers refined the agreement: They haggled for paragraphs, clauses, formulations. For example, how K. has to behave in therapy. Ronaldo's lawyers are urging her to not participate in group sessions and that she is also not allowed to tell her therapist the name Ronaldo. "Not even curse Ronaldo" as his US-lawyers said. And she is also not allowed to speak about him with her family. "Releasing the anger and slandering," so one of the lawyers in a mail "might cause a temper that is difficult to handle."

Ronaldo's forces are careful to cover absolutely any type of possible loophope or work-around. For example they also told K. how to tax the settlement sum. Because if she didn't do that, then the lawyers feared that the US-authorities might become suspicious about that big pile of sudden money of her bank account and K. would have to explain from where she got that money from. Ronaldo's lawyers discuss to let the 375.000$ be transferred from a company. that normally sells image rights for Ronaldo. A company called Multisports & Image Management, registered in the european tax haven Ireland.
On the 31st of July Osório de Castro finally gave green light for an agreement that has been reached by the US-lawyers. The case Las Vegas was now done and dusted for Ronaldo. He went on to start into the new season with Real Madrid.

Der Spiegel tried to contact Osório de Castro for a statement, to which he replied that it is the corporate policy from the law office to not leak details about their clients and that one should not draw conclusions because every comment is getting denied. What does the truth cost? What's the price of a lie?
The letter that Susan K. wrote to Ronaldo was also a piece of the extrajudical settlement. In Clause #10 it says that the letter has to be recited to Ronaldo from his lawyer Osório de Castro. Susan K. wrote: "I don't care for your money, I wanted justice. But there is no justice in this case." She mentioned *Medical Records" in which the injuries that Ronaldo caused to her are supposedly listed.

The story of Susan K. is the one of a traumatized woman. She writes: "I'm not the person anymore that I once was." Would it have been better to let a court decide this case between them? For Ronaldo because the suspect of a **** might forever stick to him. And for the salvation of Susan K.?
Her letter to Ronaldo ends with a PS. She regrets to have agreed to the settlement as she writes in bold letters: "Today I would take back my decision. One year has left since you ***** me." The last 2 sentence sound like a helpless appeal: "I hope, that you learn from this terrible mistake!! Never again take a womans life the way you took mine!!"

 

[Horatio]

[MENTION=19371]Yannik[/MENTION] much appreciated for the write-up.

 

[Aryagorn]

I bet nothing comes out of this....... Just like the football leaks and his tax fraud scandal!

 

[Yannik]

I bet nothing comes out of this....... Just like the football leaks and his tax fraud scandal!

The case has already been settled.

 

[Aryagorn]

The case has already been settled.

I know. I meant that people will forget even this, they will make sure of it. He will still remain the good boy who started at humble beginnings and conquered the world