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New details from the communication between the lawyers of Cristiano Ronaldo confirm the suspicion of rape by the professional footballer in 2009. The allegation is based on a document that Ronaldo allegedly confessed to his lawyers that he violated the declared will of the American Kathryn Mayorga in A Las Vegas hotel had sex with her.

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As SPIEGEL reports in its latest issue, newly-emergent and evaluated e-mails support the genuineness of a questionnaire that Ronaldo's attorneys apparently wanted to find out what had happened on the night in question from Ronaldo's point of view.

The new documents allow a meticulous reconstruction of who has created, edited and sent the document from his lawyers at what time. In addition, a lawyer quoted in a mail directly from the replies of the Portuguese national player in the attached questionnaire.

According to the paper, Ronaldo describes, among other things, that Mayorga had repeatedly said "no" and "stop" and then complained to him that he had forced her to have sex.

The questionnaire communication begins on August 3, 2009 with a 41-page PDF entitled "Questions for Client" from the law firm of Lavely & Singer in Los Angeles, the following day to a defense lawyer in London and Ronaldo's long-time Portuguese lawyer Carlos Osório de Castro was sent. It finds its provisional end on December 24, 2009, when Osório de Castro sends a file entitled "TQuestionsvC ENG.doc" to several lawyers, including Lavely & Singer.

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Rape allegation against Ronaldo: Key documents in the case of Ronaldo vs. Ronaldo. Mayorga

The documents that SPIEGEL reported on the rape allegations against Ronaldo back in the spring of 2017 largely stem from the Football Leaks disclosure platform.

Cristiano Ronaldo denies the rape allegations. Most recently, his lawyers claimed that the documents quoted by SPIEGEL were "substantially altered or completely counterfeited".

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