{"id":89602,"date":"2018-10-04T08:09:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=89602"},"modified":"2018-10-04T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T17:07:48","slug":"soccer-star-christiano-ronaldo-tweets-rape-denial-of-woman-at-palms-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/soccer-star-christiano-ronaldo-tweets-rape-denial-of-woman-at-palms-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo Tweets Rape Denial of Woman at Palms in Las Vegas in 2009, Alleged Victim Going Ahead with Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> has addressed a lawsuit filed against him in a Las Vegas courtroom last week the old-fashioned way: via social media. The suit accuses him of a 2009 rape which allegedly took place at his penthouse suite in the Palms Casino Resort off the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n

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Cristiano Ronaldo said rape goes against \u201ceverything I am and believe in\u201d on Wednesday, the same day that Las Vegas police confirmed they had reopened an investigation into the 2009 allegations against the soccer megastar. (Image: The Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Ronaldo went on Instagram last week shortly after news of the lawsuit broke to denounce the \u201cfake news,\u201d he didn’t clearly address the lawsuit per se at that time.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, he was more forthright.<\/p>\n

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I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in. Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) October 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n