Accuser’s brief marriage

THE former teacher who has accused Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her was briefly married before the alleged attack.

Kathryn Mayorga, 34, grew up in a sprawling family home in one of the most pleasant neighbourhoods of Las Vegas, overlooking the city’s famous Strip.

The daughter of a firefighter and stay-at-home mother, she was an aspiring model when she met the footballer in 2009 soon after separating from her husband. It is not clear if the pair were still legally married at the time of the alleged rape.

Miss Mayorga was married to a bar worker from an Albanian family who also worked part-time in computer repairs. ‘At that age, I’d graduated college, I needed to be married, I had that pressure,’ she told the German magazine Der Spiegel. ‘And at first, I was on board with it.’

But around a year after marrying, the couple separated and Miss Mayorga left the house they bought together, moving back in with her parents.

Speaking about life after the separation, she said: ‘I was really enjoying myself. I was working out every day, eating vegan … doing a lot of good stuff with modelling.’

It was during this time that she met Ronaldo on a night out with friends at Rain, a nightclub at the Palms Casino Resort.