Las Vegas lawyer fined $335,000 for asking U.S. courts to force Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions more than the $375,000 he paid to a Nevada woman who claimed an international soccer star raped her in Las Vegas Vegas in 2009.

“I believe that Ronaldo would not have incurred much of the fees and expenses he has incurred in this lawsuit if it were not for the bad faith of the plaintiff’s lawyer,” Las Vegas Judge Jennifer Dorsey said in a scathing 18-page ruling.

The judge found plaintiff Catherine Mayorgi’s lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, personally responsible for paying Ronaldo’s lawyers, led by Peter Christiansen and Kendely Works.

In a related case, a Nevada court judge who in August nearly released long-sealed and long-held documents by mistake rejected Stovall’s proposal to issue a court order to open important documents, including the Las Vegas police report on Ms. Mayorga’s rape complaint. . Ronaldo.

“The decision on confidentiality is final,” Clark County Circuit Court Judge Jazmine Lilly-Spells said in her decision released Tuesday.

Ms Lilly-Spells pointed to Mr Dorsey’s previous decisions to withhold police investigations from the public, a 2010 confidentiality agreement between Ronaldo and Mayorga, and allegedly stolen lawyer-client records between Ronaldo and his lawyers.

Source: Associated Press.