New pictures have emerged of Cristiano Ronaldo in Las Vegas at the time he is alleged to have raped Kathryn Mayorga. The Portuguese has vehemently denied the allegations. New images have surfaced of his time at the Palms Place swimming pool in 2009.
Mayorga claims the Juventus superstar attacked her in the player’s penthouse suite at the Palms Casino Resort.
The pair met at Rain nightclub earlier that day before the American woman was invited by Ronaldo to join him and his party in his penthouse suite.
Ms Mayorga is suing Ronaldo to overturn a non-disclosure agreement she signed after the alleged incident.
She described the accusation as rape in her interview with Der Spiegel, though the legal papers have labelled the allegation as sexual assault claims.
The Mirror was granted exclusive access to the 57th-floor luxury apartment in which it is claimed he raped Ms Mayorga.
Events in the suite – 57306 at the palatial tower in the US city – are at the centre of a reopened police inquiry.
The now-closed nightclub where the pair met in the hours before the alleged attack was next door in the Palms Hotel.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Kathryn Mayorga dancing
The Portuguese star issued a statement on social media on Wednesday to ‘clear his name’ and deny the accusation of rape.
“I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in,” Ronaldo said.
“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.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Kathryn Mayorga
“My clear conscious will thereby allow me to await with tranquillity the results of any and all investigations.”
Mayorga, 34, alleges the footballer then dispatched a team of “fixers” to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet for $375,00 (£268,000).
The lawsuit says Ms Mayorga asked police last month to reopen the criminal case.
Las Vegas police confirmed on Monday that they have reopened a sexual assault case from 2009 .