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Former UFC champion Conor McGregor is underneath investigation for an alleged assault on his yacht final July.
The Majorca Daily Bulletin reported Tuesday a girl informed Irish police she was on McGregor’s yacht to rejoice his thirty fourth birthday. She mentioned he grew to become aggressive and bodily assaulted her, kicking her within the midsection and punching her on the chin.
McGregor additionally allegedly threatened to drown her.
“It was as if he was possessed,” the girl mentioned in an announcement to police in Dublin. “I knew that I needed to get off the boat as a result of I assumed that he was going to kill me.”
Barbie Latza Nadeau of the Day by day Beast shared an announcement from Karen Kessler, a spokesperson for McGregor, denying the allegations.
“Mr. McGregor is steadfast in his denial of all of the accusations made by a visitor on his boat,” Kessler mentioned.
Per Ede, the girl’s assertion offered Spanish authorities with sufficient trigger to reopen an investigation.
In January 2021, McGregor was sued by a girl who mentioned he raped her at an Irish lodge in 2018. Irish prosecutors declined to cost him criminally, which led Kessler to inform the New York Occasions‘ Tariq Panja and Kevin Draper the allegations have been “categorically rejected.”
Final March, a choose granted a motion by the girl’s attorneys requiring the Gardaí, Eire’s nationwide police service, to show over proof it collected within the case as a part of the invention course of for the lawsuit.
McGregor stays one of the vital recognizable names within the UFC regardless of not having fought since his first-round TKO loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. The 34-year-old is 22-6 throughout his skilled blended martial arts profession.
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