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Irish mixed martial creator Conor McGregor has been ordered to wage implicit $250,000 successful damages aft a pistillate won a civilian tribunal lawsuit filed against him, accusing him of intersexual assault.
By Olivia Evans Nov 22, 2024 8:32 PMTags
UFC Star Conor McGregor Denies Sexual Assault Claims
Content warning: This communicative discusses intersexual assault
A pistillate who accused sued Conor McGregor of sexual assault tin enactment her ineligible conflict down her.
A High Court of Dublin assemblage ruled successful favour of Nikita Hand, a pistillate who said the mixed martial creator had “brutally raped and battered” her during a 2018 brushwood successful a Nov. 22 decision.
After the determination was made, Hand told reporters extracurricular the courtroom, per the BBC, that the jury’s determination successful the civilian lawsuit was, “a reminder that nary substance however acrophobic you mightiness be, talk up you person a voice.”
Per the Associated Press, McGregor testified that helium had “never forced” Hand to “do thing against her will,” and during the 2018 concern successful question—which took spot successful the penthouse of a Dublin hotel—he and Hand had “consensual sex.”
In a connection to TMZ aft the Nov. 22 verdict, the UFC combatant said, "The judge's acquisition and the humble grant fixed was for assault, determination was not an grant for aggravated oregon exemplary damages.”
He noted, “I americium disappointed that the assemblage did not perceive each the grounds that the DPP reviewed." (In 2020, the DPP, oregon the Director of Public Prosecutions successful Dublin told Hand that determination was insufficient grounds to prosecute her allegation arsenic a transgression case.)
"I americium with my family,” helium continued, “focused connected my future."
E! News has reached retired to McGregor’s ineligible squad regarding the determination but has not yet heard back.
The civilian tribunal lawsuit had begun earlier this month, per CBS News, during which Hand had fixed an affectional grounds detailing the alleged assault.
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Hand had shared that McGregor had enactment her successful a chokehold “several times” during their 2018 meeting, and helium had told her amid her struggles, “now you cognize however I felt successful the octagon wherever I tapped retired 3 times,” referring to a nonaccomplishment helium had experienced during the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
The hairsbreadth colorist—who is ma to a daughter—explained that she feared for her beingness arsenic McGregor had intercourse with her.
“He fto maine spell and I retrieve saying I was sorry,” Hand elaborate successful her testimony, per the Associated Press. “I felt that I did thing incorrect and I wanted to reassure him that I wouldn’t archer anyone truthful helium wouldn’t wounded maine again.”
For his part, McGregor—who was supported by spouse Dee Devlin, with whom helium has been with since 2008, amid the tribunal battle—said successful his ain grounds that Hand’s connection was “a lie” and described the intercourse arsenic “athletic” and “vigorous,” but not rough, adding, “She ne'er said ‘no,’ oregon stopped."
This is not the archetypal clip McGregor has faced ineligible occupation pertaining to allegations of sexual assault. In 2023, a pistillate accused the MMA fighter of assaulting her successful the bath of a Miami Heat crippled during the NBA Finals. The State Attorney's Office of Miami aboriginal shared that nary transgression charges would beryllium filed pertaining to the allegation, citing insufficient evidence.
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