Ronaldo used ‘fixers’ to obstruct Las Vegas
‘rape’ investigation – lawsuit
Alberto Lingria / Reuters
Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of using a team of ‘fixers’ to obstruct a criminal investigation into allegations he raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room and coerced the victim into accepting $375,000 hush money.
Football icon Ronaldo is being sued by Kathryn Mayorga, 34, over the incident which allegedly took place in a Vegas penthouse suit in 2009, after a night of partying.
Las Vegas police confirmed that a they have reopened a sexual assault case from the same year, as per the request of the woman named in the suit made last month, AP reports.
In an interview with German news outlet Der Spiegel, which reported the claims on Friday, Mayorga alleges she accepted an offer from the Juventus winger to enjoy the Las Vegas view from his luxurious hotel room, but declined to climb into a hot tub in the apartment so as not to ruin her dress.
When Ronaldo gave her alternative clothing, he barged in on her while changing and pulled her into a bedroom, raping her while she cried "no, no, no," the lawsuit claims.
Mayorga's attorney Leslie Mark Stovall alleges the pair then reached an agreement by which Ronaldo would pay $375,000 if Mayorga never spoke of the incident.
Accusations against Ronaldo in the lawsuit include: coercion and fraud, abuse of a vulnerable person, racketeering and civil conspiracy. It also states the "psychological trauma" of the assault left Mayorga "terrified."
The Portuguese winger, 33, has branded the claims “fake news” and insisted such behavior is a normal ploy used by individuals “to promote” themselves by using his name.
"Fake. Fake news," the player, who moved to Italy from Real Madrid in the summer for $117 million, said. "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 is good."
The player's legal team have claimed they intend to launch a counter suit against Der Spiegel over the publishing of "blatantly illegal" accusations. Christian Schertz, Ronaldo's lawyer, said the report was "an inadmissible reporting of suspicions in the area of privacy," per Reuters.
Tatum O'Neal shares emotional post about being sexually abused multiple times: 'I remember everything'
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Tatum O’Neal attends the screening of Rock Paper Dead at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood last October. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
Like many women across the country right now, Tatum O’Neal has been inspired to speak out about her own experience with sexual abuse. In an emotional post on Instagram, the Oscar-winning actress says she was “sexually assaulted more than once” at ages 5, 6, 12, 13, and 15.
“All by older men who I thought were safe,” she writes. “I rarely have known safety and was always blamed for the assaults and my loudness and curiosity. It’s taken me almost 55 years to know how to advocate for myself.”
O’Neal, 54, went on to slam President Trump for mocking a “sexual assault victim.” Although the actress doesn’t specifically name anyone, it appears she’s talking about Trump’s verbal attack on Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford. At a rally in Mississippi this week, POTUS ridiculed Ford for being unable to recall specific details of the alleged incident in the 1980s.
“We’ve sunk to a depth of depravity that I never thought the president of the United States could ever sink to. With uproarious laughter for someone who was assaulted at 15 years old,” she says. (Kavanaugh has denied all sexual misconduct accusations.)
“Whether it was 35 years ago to a 75-year-old man at 15 I remember everything,” O’Neal says. “It’s time to band together. … I’ve never seen such a dark time in our country.” You can read her post in full below.
O’Neal has opened up about experiencing sexual abuse before, in her 2001 book, A Paper Life: My Story. In it, she detailed a childhood full of neglect and abuse — physical, emotional, and sexual.
“It was terrible. My mother stayed drunk for years and years and years. It just went on and on and on. So even from when we were little up until when we grew up and, you know, it just didn’t end,” she told NBC News of her mother’s neglect as a child. O’Neal said she was molested at age 6.
“When parents are off getting drunk or getting high or taking pills in another room, and leaving little children with, you know, people who don’t watch their kids, this is what happens,” she said.
When asked if the molestation incident was a one-time thing, she replied “no.”
O’Neal’s post has been met with hundreds of supportive comments.
Charges of child sex abuse from 1998
leveled at ex-broadcaster in Wash. State
By Jefferson Robbins leveled at ex-broadcaster in Wash. State
WENATCHEE — A former Wenatchee broadcasting executive faces trial in December on charges that he raped two children decades ago.
Lonnie Kaye England, 53, is charged with multiple counts of child molestation, child rape and incest. Two adults who lived in England's household as children came forward to say he sexually abused them multiple times between about 1998 and 2000.
At a hearing Wednesday in Chelan County Superior Court, England was set for a trial Dec. 4. He was arrested and charged 13 months ago, which caused Judge Kristin Ferrera some concern.
"This case was filed over a year ago, and this is, I think, the third continuance now, is it?" Ferrera asked. "That's true, your honor," England's defense attorney Nick Yedinak replied.
"I understand the issues and that this is a complicated case, but try to just keep it moving along," Ferrera ordered.
Deputy prosecutor Nicole Hankins said she made a plea offer Wednesday, which England and his lawyer have yet to review.
England is the former general manager of the Apple Valley TV Association, which broadcast 11 over-the-air channels including Wenatchee's community access station. East Wenatchee Internet provider LocalTel purchased the operation in 2015.
If convicted on any of the most serious current charges, England could face anywhere from nine years up to life in prison.
#MeToo hits India: Newsrooms face sexual harassment investigations as women speak out
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At the start they only plagued the West, but sexual harassment claims prompted by #MeToo have now swept into India, so much so that an investigation into “sexual predation” within the media industry has been called for.
Inspired by the mass campaign movement, journalists and writers took to social media platforms Twitter and Facebook to level accusations of misconduct against figures in the entertainment industry and politics, but journalists themselves have also been accused.
The Editors Guild of India has responded to the allegations by calling on all media organizations to conduct “unbiased” investigations into reported incidences of sexual harassment against staff.
The association said in a statement on Tuesday it “extends its total support to all women journalists, who suffered a disadvantage in their careers, physical or mental trauma, as a result of any sexual predation,” Reuters reports.
The minister was accused of sexual harassment by senior journalist Priya Ramani, who last year wrote an article for Vogue on the #MeToo campaign which started off with her story about Akbar. While Ramani stopped short of naming the minister in the article, she admitted on Monday that Akbar was the person in question.
The Hindustan Times’ political editor Prashant Jha was also asked to step down, the Indian publication reported, pending an investigation into accusations of sending inappropriate messages to a former female colleague. Jha is yet to release a public statement about the claims.
Meanwhile, a journalists’ network known as the Network of Women in Media India (NWMI), is setting up a helpline to facilitate reporting harassment cases.
“Sexual harassment has been the elephant in the room,” Kalpana Sharma, founder member of NWMI, told Reuters.
‘I wagged my buttocks’: German TV star gets filmed strip-teasing undercover cops – and fumes over blowback
A German actress has landed herself in hot water after stripping and flashing her bum (and more) to a group of men in a carpark – unaware that the trio were actually undercover police, who then filmed her saucy little striptease.
Antje Monning, 40, described her roadside antics as a spur-of-the-moment decision… that landed her with a €1,200 fine ($1,390). The German sitcom star was caught on video in June by plain-clothed police conducting traffic checks. In the video, the actress – famous for her role as a nun called Jenny in German TV show ‘For Heaven’s Sake’ – can be seen shaking her hips invitingly, while tucking up her skirt.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Monning slammed the fine for her salacious little number in Jengen, Barvaria, southern Germany.
“I wagged my buttocks in front of three men who seemed involved in a conversation, slightly lifting my little skirt, under which I was naked,” she told the tabloid.
The actress, who described herself as an “exhibitionist,” said that nudity should be “considered natural.” She also slammed her public nuisance charge, launching into an emotional rhetorical diatribe.
“Do we really want to live in a society where you can not fool around mindlessly, where everyone is secretly recorded on video, in which people sue each other instead of talking to each other and in which tolerance and acceptance soon only exist as foreign words in the dictionary?” she asked.
The TV star has appealed her public nuisance fine with the help of her lawyer.
Good grief!
HOLLAND'S GOT TALENT FINALIST GETS 4 YEARS
FOR PROLIFIC CHILD SEX ABUSE
By Janene Pieters
The court in Alkmaar sentenced 26-year-old Lars de R. from Krommenie to four years in prison and institutionalized psychiatric treatment for sexually abusing 10 underage boys in Netherlands, India and Croatia, NOS reports.
De R. became famous when he reached the finals of talent show Holland's Got Talent at the age of 16 in 2009. The court found him guilty of having sex with ten boys multiple times over the course of eight years. The youngest victim was 4-years-old at the time.
The man traveled to India multiple times where he had paid sex with four boys. In the Netherlands he sexually abused boys while giving them guitar lessons and as an activity supervisor at an Amsterdam playground.
The Public Prosecutor had demanded 6 years in prison and institutionalized psychiatric treatment against him.
The Belgian authorities are also investigating De R. In that country he is suspected of creating and distributing footage of child sex abuse.
Good grief! What a pervert! And what a pathetic sentence - 4 years. It should be more like 40 years.
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