Cristiano Ronaldo accuser spells out rape claims and the events that followed in detail

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When the first article appeared, Ronaldo's agency Gestifute released a statement saying, "the article is nothing but a piece of journalistic fiction." The statement continued: "The newspaper has based their entire narrative on documents which are unsigned and where the parties are not identified." That portrayal is incorrect. Numerous documents in DER SPIEGEL's possession prove as much, including some which have been signed by Ronaldo himself. The existence of those documents could help explain why he has not, in the last year-and-a-half, followed up on his threats to take DER SPIEGEL to court. In its public statement, Gestifute also discredited the alleged victim, saying she "refuses to come forward and confirm the veracity of the accusation."

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She says she then went to the bathroom to change, one of the ones attached to a bedroom. Just as she was standing there only in her panties, she says, Ronaldo suddenly walked in, his penis hanging out of his shorts. As she tells her story, Mayorga pauses briefly and opens her eyes so wide that the whites of her eyes became visible around her pupils. "Basically he ... he begged me to touch his penis for 30 seconds." She shakes her head. "When I wouldn't touch it, he begged me to suck it. Like, what an idiot! (...) I was laughing at him because I thought, 'Is this a joke?' This guy that is so famous and so hot ... he's a frickin' loser and a creep." But Ronaldo wouldn't be put off. "He was like, 'I'll let you go if you give me a kiss.' I said, 'OK, I'll kiss you but I'm not going to touch your nasty penis.'" Mayorga swears that she only kissed him and didn't otherwise touch him. The kiss, though, she says, only turned him on more. "He starts to come on to me very strong. And he starts to do stuff to me and touch me and grab me and go down on me. I pushed him away and kept saying 'No.'" At that moment, she says, one of his friends came in and asked: What are you doing? "I immediately grabbed my dress and put it on. And I said: 'We're leaving right now.' And I looked at him. He said: 'Yeah, yeah. We'll leave.'" Mayorga sits quietly for a moment before continuing. "I thought everything was over." But it wasn't, she claims. "He pulls me into the room. I still wasn't afraid at all. I was just like, 'Man, this guy's adamant.' The most adamant I've ever dealt with. I explain to him: 'Listen dude, this is not going to happen.'"

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"I turned away. He tried to take my underwear off. I turned away from him and curled up into a ball. And I was holding my vagina. And that's when he jumped on me." She says she said "no, no, no, no." Ronaldo, Kathryn Mayorga claims, raped her anally. Without a condom. Without lubricant. "After he assaulted me, he wouldn't let me leave again. He wouldn't let me leave. And he was calling me 'baby, baby.' He gave me this look, this guilty look. Almost like he felt bad. I don't remember but I'm pretty sure he said 'sorry' or 'Are you hurt?' And by this time, he's (...) on his knees. He says the 99 percent thing." He insisted, she says, that he was "a good guy" except for the "one percent."

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There is a recording of Mayorga's call to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at 2:16 p.m. on June 13, 2009. In the so-called "computer-aided dispatch" or CAD report, which DER SPIEGEL has obtained, her report has a case number which later makes an appearance in the out-of-court settlement between Kathryn Mayorga and Cristiano Ronaldo. In the CAD report, under the heading "Type," which refers to the kind of complaint it records, the number 426 can be found. It is the code for sexual offenses. The police officer who spoke with Mayorga noted that the caller was extremely distraught and did not want to provide the name of the alleged perpetrator. All she would say is that it was a "public figure" and an "athlete." The officer noted down that she had not bathed.

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A list containing hundreds of questions was submitted to Ronaldo, his brother-in-law and his cousin. In the document, Ronaldo is referred to as "X" while Kathryn Mayorga is referred to as "Ms. C." There are several versions of the questionnaire. The questions remain more or less consistent on all of them, but the answers do not. In one version from December 2009, Ronaldo speaks of consensual sex and that there had been no indication that she wasn't OK with it during sex nor did it seem that she wasn't doing well afterward. But there is another, much earlier version. It is the document that could have serious consequences for Ronaldo. In response to the question as to whether Ms. C. ever raised her voice, screamed or called out, X responded, according to the document: "She said no and stop several times." In the document, X says that she was lying on her side. "I entered her from behind. It was rude. We didn't change position. 5/7 minutes. She said that she didn't want to, but she made herself available." And further: "But she kept saying 'No.' 'Don't do it.' 'I'm not like the others.' I apologized afterwards."

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Question: Did Ms. C. say anything afterwards about the sex being too brutal? X: "She didn't complain about it being brutal. She complained that I forced her. She didn't say anything about wanting to go to the police."

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Mayorga's family was sitting outside the room. Recalling that day, they say they could hear their daughter crying and screaming through the door. "They said horrible things, like they basically tried to say that I was a hooker, that because I did that modeling job, that that was hooker-ish.

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The lawyers worked on the precise wording of the agreement into the summer, adjusting paragraphs and modifying formulations. One issue addressed, for example, was how much Mayorga was allowed to say during her therapy sessions. Ronaldo's legal team insisted that she be prohibited from mentioning his name even to her therapist and demanded that she not be allowed to complain about him. They even went so far as to insist that she not speak about him to her family. This would create a hard-to-control atmosphere, one of his lawyers wrote in an email.

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And then, in spring 2017, the article appeared in DER SPIEGEL. "Everything was there that nobody was supposed to know about. I read the comments...." Kathryn Mayorga presses her lips together. "I care what people think." Among the online comments pertaining to the story were things like: "As if Ronaldo even needs to rape a woman." "That's what I thought," Mayorga says quietly.

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The Nevada criminal code includes the following statute: If a sexual assault has been documented in time by the police, it will never fall under the statute of limitations.

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