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A Las Vegas attorney who attempted to have Cristiano Ronaldo pay millions of dollars in court in the United States has been fined $335,000.
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More than the $375,000 he gave to a Nevada woman who claimed the famous soccer player had raped her in Las Vegas in 2009 as "hush money."
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In a harsh 18-page decision, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey stated, "I find that Ronaldo would not have incurred a majority of the fees and costs that he expended"
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Leslie Mark Stovall, the attorney representing Kathryn Mayorga, the plaintiff, was ordered by the Las Vegas judge to personally pay Peter Christiansen and Kendelee Works
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Ross Moynihan and Larissa Drohobyczer, who was also involved in the case with Stovall, did not answer right away on Wednesday to emails
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In a separate matter, a Nevada state court judge who narrowly avoided accidentally making long-sealed and contentious documents public in August denied Stovall's request
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For a court order to unseal important records, such as a police report from Las Vegas regarding Mayorga's rape charge against Ronaldo.
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Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells of the Clark County District Court stated in her decision, which was also delivered on Tuesday, "The decision regarding secrecy is definitive."
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Lilly-Spells cited Dorsey's past decisions to keep the findings of police investigations secret, as well as a confidentiality agreement Ronaldo and Mayorga signed in 2010.
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