{"id":3462,"date":"2016-04-05T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2016-04-05T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T02:22:20","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-rape-allegations-me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"Why Is No One Talking About Rape Allegations Against Cristiano Ronaldo?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>ou would not dispute that Cristiano Ronaldo is an adult. But even in 2009, when Ronaldo was at the tender age of 24, he was called \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/how-ronaldo-legal-team-dealt-with-rape-accusations-a-1231779.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the kid\u201d by his lawyers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He also had to be managed by a bevy of detectives, a crisis management firm, and medical experts, when an accusation of rape came forward. For an incident which Ronaldo dubbed as \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45698134\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fake news<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, this was a pretty elaborate and expensive exercise.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But going by the reaction of mainstream media, it was not worth taking seriously. Not until Ronaldo spoke about it, anyway. When <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/cristiano-ronaldo-kathryn-mayorga-the-woman-who-accuses-ronaldo-of-rape-a-1230634.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kathryn Mayorga first accused Ronaldo of rape<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in an interview to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Der Spiegel <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in September 2018, sports journalists chose to hide behind abstract notions of legality. Only once Ronaldo\u2019s denial became public did we see reports in numbers \u2013 as if his silence would have been enough to overlook the allegations.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, an unhealthy amount of time has been dedicated to positive words about Ronaldo. Juventus celebrated his \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juventusfcen\/status\/1047912523494842370\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">great professionalism and dedication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and clarified that his actions from a decade ago were unlikely to change the club\u2019s opinion. Portugal left Ronaldo out for the upcoming matches against Poland and Scotland, but not as a matter of principle. Rather, it was somehow to shield him. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know Cristiano well and I fully believe he would not commit a crime like that,\u201d asserted the Portuguese manager Fernando Santos.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cinnocent until proven guilty\u201d was drummed into the ears of anyone who dared to offer a contrary view. But writer Kate Maltby <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2018\/10\/05\/what-to-expect-when-a-woman-accuses-a-man-in-power\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">asked a pertinent question<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in this context when she discussed her experience of sexual harassment which led to the sacking of Secretary of State Damian Green in the United Kingdom last year. \u201cWhere did my \u2018plausibility\u2019 intersect with the impossibility of \u2018proof beyond reasonable doubt?\u2019\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The damning documents released by Football Leaks, that formed the basis of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Der Spiegel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report, certainly give rise to reasonable doubt about Ronaldo\u2019s actions. It is there that you find the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/footballers-world-2018-russia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">footballer <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">admitted to his own legal team that, \u201cShe said no and stop several times.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>But his privilege remains unchecked, for the most part. Ronaldo\u2019s tears over a controversial sending-off gets more news space, so does his philanthropy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the very least, this is not a case of fake news. Although a settlement is an admission to nothing, the Non-Disclosure Agreement signed by Ronaldo and Mayorga is now under the threat of invalidation. Mayorga\u2019s lawyer, Leslie Stovall, argues that her trauma was manipulated by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/ronaldo-messi-fifa-ballon-dor-player-of-the-year\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronaldo\u2019s <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legal team during the settlement negotiations. Furthermore, the NDA was signed to \u201cprevent or delay criminal prosecution\u201d which renders it legally invalid.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the Los Angeles Police Department reopening the investigation, Ronaldo\u2019s claims that the accuser wants to profit off his name and that his personal rights are being violated stand on thin ground. His alleged personal aggravation is merely an attempt to deflect from the serious questions he should face. For instance, why was Mayorga shadowed by a private <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/aarushi\/4-04-choice-bureau-investigation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">investigator <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the days leading up to the settlement? And why does the settlement speak of alleged sexual harassment, if it is just \u201cfake news\u201d?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronaldo has not suffered professionally \u2013 a charge often laid out to defend the accused \u2013 since the allegations resurfaced. The footballer scored for Juventus last weekend; he was named as a nominee for the Ballon D\u2019Or by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/fifa-football-world-cup-religion\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Football<\/span><\/i> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">magazine, and his sponsors Nike and EA Games are merely concerned at the moment. This is not even Ronaldo\u2019s first brush with an accusation of sexual assault. In 2005, he was arrested in London after a woman charged him with rape. The case was dropped later without any reason offered. Meanwhile, Mayorga\u2019s lawyer Stovall has revealed that another woman has approached him with an allegation of rape against Ronaldo. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But his privilege remains unchecked, for the most part. Ronaldo\u2019s tears over a controversial sending-off gets more news space, so does his philanthropy. This goes beyond Ronaldo, of course. Writing in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, activist Shireen Ahmed <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5416251\/cristiano-ronaldo-rape-soccer-metoo\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">revealed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that no media publication was keen to publish her piece when Spain\u2019s David de Gea was charged with rape in 2016. The most popular men seem to enjoy an impunity that is emboldened by the very powers who are supposed to question them. And <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchnews.com\/sports-news\/how-we-help-our-athletes-get-away-with-crimes-against-women-56092.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not just in football<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Closer home, there are other parallels in the Ronaldo rape allegations that resonate. Yesterday, singer Chinmayi Sripaada posted a tweet on behalf of a woman who chose to remain anonymous claiming that Sri Lanka\u2019s Lasith Malinga assaulted her during <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/arre-checklist-ipl-team-says\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IPL<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This has been met with complete silence from the sports fraternity. Bollywood\u2019s powerful and mighty are largely mum as the industry is witnessing its own #MeToo moment with women outing filmmakers such as Vikas Bahl, Sajid Khan, and Subhash Ghai, and actors Nana Patekar and Alok Nath. And the government might be on the verge of firing minister, former editor, and alleged serial harasser MJ Akbar, while ducking questions about him. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This culture of silence only strengthens the established power dynamics. It is what gives predators like Harvey <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/consent-harvey-weinstein-anurag-verma-sexual-harassment-me-too\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weinstein <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the courage to harass one woman after another. Drunk on power, these men begin to believe they are bigger than the system and nothing can stop them. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It doesn\u2019t help then that despite allegations as serious as rape against Ronaldo, he receives support from Portugal\u2019s Prime Minister Antonio Costa, the national media, and corporate sponsors. The option of sending <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/why-ronaldo-should-follow-messi-into-retirement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronaldo <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on an indefinite leave is not even contemplated, as a different set of conventions seem to be at work in football when it comes to him. There is a long list of footballers who were released by their clubs for much less \u2013 a temporary suspension for Ronaldo may not be the outrageous idea it might seem in wake of the turn the #MeToo movement has taken. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayorga, after all, felt encouraged to share her story upon reading the harrowing accounts that emanated from #<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/the-3-mistakes-of-chetan-bhagat-me-too-sexual-harassment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MeToo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The campaign to believe survivors is premised on giving them the time and respect they deserve when they choose to speak, and not to dismiss them. To privilege Ronaldo\u2019s account over that of Mayorga is an act of further weaponising the powerful.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Portuguese footballer was referred as \u201cTopher\u201d in the settlement with Mayorga. A short visit to Urban Dictionary would reveal that, among other things, it means \u201ca tall, handsome, funny male who can be addicting and sometimes hard to look away from\u201d. It is a name which feeds into Ronaldo\u2019s sense of vanity. In the narrative he defines for himself, Ronaldo often likes to present his story as an inevitable journey towards greatness. To him, an accusation of rape is just an obstacle in that path. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been accused of rape, continues to be shielded by Portugal\u2019s PM, the national media, his club, and his corporate sponsors. In wake of the #MeToo movement, a temporary suspension for Ronaldo may not be so outrageous after all. To privilege Ronaldo\u2019s account over that of his victims is an act of further weaponising the powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[2588,4151,6604,396,2568,3213,1615,556],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-metoo","tag-allegations","tag-antonio-costa","tag-football","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-portugal","tag-rape","tag-ronaldo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Is No One Talking About Rape Allegations Against Cristiano Ronaldo?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been accused of rape, continues to be shielded by Portugal\u2019s PM, the national media, his club, and his corporate sponsors. 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In wake of the #MeToo movement, a temporary suspension for Ronaldo may not be so outrageous after all. To privilege Ronaldo\u2019s account over that of his victims is an act of further weaponising the powerful.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3462#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3462"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3462#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1539353571.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1539353571.jpg","width":1520,"height":850},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3462#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why Is No One Talking About Rape Allegations Against Cristiano Ronaldo?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#website","url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/","name":"Arr\u00e9","description":"In every person lies a creator and in every creator, an enterprise.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/264f054d8131922d0722931bb5b5630b","name":"Priyansh","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/67bb268eb229703346f6ecb7ab6d3de3f4cb65e3adaadeed48fd88a53c1b1d76?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/67bb268eb229703346f6ecb7ab6d3de3f4cb65e3adaadeed48fd88a53c1b1d76?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/67bb268eb229703346f6ecb7ab6d3de3f4cb65e3adaadeed48fd88a53c1b1d76?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Priyansh"},"url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?author=260"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1539353571.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}