A Nevada judge reversed course and decided to keep the Las Vegas police report confidential, which had been created ten years after the initial 2009 rape charge against Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo. Prior to joining Real Madrid from United for a then-record transfer price in 2009, the Portugal forward is accused of raping US resident Kathryn Mayorga in a hotel room.

Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells of the Clark County District Court made the decision on Tuesday to at least temporarily abide by a federal court order that kept the findings of the police investigation, the terms of a confidentiality agreement with the alleged rape victim, and allegedly stolen records of attorney-client conversations between Ronaldo and his lawyers from being made public.

Lilly-Spells stated, "The court is ordering that the temporary seal continue," and requested written arguments by September 6 from Ronaldo's, the woman's, Kathryn Mayorga's, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper lawyers. Mayorga reported the assault to Las Vegas police in June 2009, but the criminal investigation was halted because, according to police and prosecutors, she failed to name her claimed assailant or specify the location of the occurrence.

Following Mayorga's 2018 civil complaint against Ronaldo, police reopened the rape probe. However, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson decided against pressing charges because he felt that it had been too long since the incident to convince a jury of the truth. On Tuesday, the judge denied a plea from the Las Vegas police to decide whether Ronaldo could sue the force for damages if the recordings were made public. The records were not added to the public registry of the court.

In that decision, Lilly-Spells ruled that a number of additional issues were no longer relevant, including the temporary order keeping the contested documents sealed pending a hearing. The judge acknowledged the mistake and fixed it while the discussions continued well into the day.

After Mayorga and her attorneys were unsuccessful in their attempt to have a hush-money confidentiality agreement, which paid Mayorga $375,000 in 2010, upheld by the US District Court, the issue of whether the documents should be made public under Nevada's public records legislation is still being debated.

The Review-Journal joined the New York Times in the effort to have the records made public in state court. Both newspapers have been represented by attorney Margaret McLetchie. In a four-year court struggle, Ronaldo's attorneys, led by Peter Christiansen and Kendelee Works, have fought valiantly to keep the records private.

Leslie Mark Stovall, the attorney for Mayorga, has attempted to have them made public and has occasionally attached them to court documents before Ronaldo's attorneys swiftly filed a lawsuit to keep them sealed. In June, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey dismissed Mayorga's civil complaint. The case had been transferred to federal court in 2019 after Stovall sought at least $25 million extra in attorney costs and damages from Ronaldo.

Before a German news outlet, Der Spiegel, published an article in April 2017 titled "Cristiano Ronaldo's Secret" based on documents obtained from what court documents referred to as "whistleblower portal Football Leaks," Mayorga's attorneys claim that Ronaldo or his associates broke the confidentiality agreement. Ronaldo's attorneys contend that there is no assurance that the "Football Leaks" documents and the confidentiality agreement are legitimate because they are the result of protected attorney-client conversations.

To penalise Stovall for what Dorsey - in a blistering statement - called "bad-faith behaviour" by a court official and the inappropriate use of leaked and stolen papers to prosecute Mayorga's case, they are also asking Dorsey to order Stovall to pay more than $626,000 in court costs and fees. The judge stated: "He calculatedly expropriated documents from a third party without care for their plainly privileged and private nature or the suspicious circumstances surrounding them. He was not the original thief."

Mayorga is a local of Las Vegas who has worked as a model and a teacher in the past. She met Ronaldo at a nightclub, went to his hotel suite with him and other people, and said he abused her in a bedroom, according to her lawsuit. She had just turned 25. He was 24. While Ronaldo's legal team does not deny that he met Mayorga and engaged in sexual activity with her in June 2009, they insist that it was consensual.

Ronaldo, who is currently 37, is one of the most well-known and well-paid athletes in the world. He has led the Portugal national team while playing for Manchester United of the English Premier League. He recently participated in Italian league play for Juventus, a team situated in Turin.

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