Cristiano Ronaldo has denied raping a woman claiming it as "fake news."
In an Instagram video, Ronaldo said: "They want to promote [themselves] by [using] my name. It's normal." Ronaldo's lawyers say they will sue Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, which originally reported the allegations. The magazine wrote that Kathryn Mayorga had claimed Ronaldo raped her in a hotel room in Las Vegas. She claims that Ronaldo gave her $375,000 payment for agreeing never to go public with the allegations. In a statement, Ronaldo's lawyer Christian Schertz said "the reporting in Spiegel is blatantly illegal".