The father of Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend is a convicted drug trafficker. Jorge Rodriguez, 69, was a cocaine and cannabis kingpin who spent ten years in jail.
His model daughter Georgina Rodriguez, 23, has been tipped as ex-Manchester United favourite Ronaldo’s future wife. She gave birth to their daughter Alana Martina last year.
According to the SunUK, Argentinian Jorge, a dad of three, served time in Spain for two offences. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2003 for masterminding a failed plot to smuggle more than £100,000 worth of 83 per cent pure cocaine from Spain to France.
He was freed on licence in 2008 but was soon back inside for smuggling £1million of cannabis resin from Morocco to Spain with accomplices. He got a two-year term and was freed in 2013.
Guns and bullets were found in a warehouse where the cannabis was discovered.
The revelation is a new blow to Portuguese ace Ronaldo, 33, who is being investigated over an alleged rape in 2009, which he strongly denies.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo has “firmly” denied raping a woman in a US hotel room almost a decade ago. The Juventus forward, said he was calm over “any and all investigations” as he had a “clear” conscience over the allegation he attacked Kathryn Mayorga in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009.
He spoke out ahead of her lawyers giving a press conference on Wednesday.
He had previously said the allegation, first reported in German magazine Der Spiegel, was “fake news”.
On Wednesday, he issued a statement through his Twitter account: