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UFC Star Conor McGregor Denies Sexual Assault Claims
Content warning: This communicative discusses allegations of intersexual assault.
Conor McGregor is refuting sexual assault allegations pursuing an quality at an NBA Finals game.
In a ineligible missive sent to the UFC prima this week and obtained by E! News June 15, McGregor was accused of forcing himself connected a pistillate astatine the Kaseya Center successful Miami June 9.
The document—written by Ariel Mitchell, an lawyer representing McGregor's accuser—alleged that the unnamed pistillate was "trapped" wrong the men's bath by information earlier the MMA combatant appeared, "aggressively kissed her" and tried to unit her into aggregate enactment acts.
In response, McGregor's lawyer told E! News, "The allegations are false. Mr. McGregor volition not beryllium intimidated."
McGregor was astatine the hoops game, which saw the Denver Nuggets triumph the bid against Miami Heat, to beforehand a caller pain-relief spray. As seen successful videos shared connected societal media that night, the MMA fighter knocked down the Heats' mascot, Burnie, with a punch during a pre-arranged halftime sketch.
However, Mitchell alleged successful the letter, McGregor past "elevated his aggressive, unprovoked, and outrageous behaviour by violently sexually assaulting" his accuser aft the game. Mitchell further claimed McGregor's security held the woman's purse "hostage" erstwhile she fled the scene, and that the container was lone returned to aft she made "several hopeless pleas."
The pistillate contacted law enforcement aft the alleged attack, according to the letter.
On June 15, a spokesperson for the Miami Police Department confirmed to E! News that their Special Victims Unit is investigating a study filed connected June 11. "This is an unfastened investigation," the spokesperson said, "so nary further accusation tin beryllium released astatine this time."
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McGregor has not been charged with a crime, though his accuser's lawyer warned of imaginable litigation.
"We cognize a lengthy, nationalist litigation would promote different victims and witnesses to travel forward," Mitchell's missive read. "This steadfast has been instructed to research each tenable colony offers to resoluteness these claims earlier they escalate further."
UFC told NBC News successful a connection that the enactment "is alert of the caller allegations regarding Conor McGregor and volition proceed to stitchery further details regarding the incident."
Meanwhile, the Miami Heat and the Kaseya Center, which were issued a missive from Mitchell arsenic well, said successful a associated societal media statement on June 15, "We are alert of the allegations and are conducting a afloat investigation. Pending the result of the investigation, we volition withhold further comment."
Mike Bass, a spokesperson for the NBA, issued a connection from the enactment reading: "We are alert of the allegations and are moving with the squad to stitchery much information."
(E! and NBC News are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.
