Ronaldo to face new legal challenge from rape accuser over 'hush money deal'

Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyers are to return to court in a legal challenge over hush money he allegedly paid to a woman who accused him of raping her over a decade ago.

A lawyer for Ms Mayorga is now asking the US Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the dismissal of the case in June 2022 and reopen the civil lawsuit she first filed in Nevada in 2018. He said too much time had passed and evidence failed to show that Ms Mayorga’s accusation could be proved to a jury. In dismissing the case last year, US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas took the unusual step of levying a $335,000 fine against Ms Mayorga's lead lawyer, Mr Stovall, for acting in “bad faith” in filing the case on his client’s behalf.

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