January 15, 2025 3:50 pm ET
UFC star Conor McGregor faces one other civil lawsuit for sexual misconduct, this time stemming from an alleged incident at a Miami Warmth recreation in 2023.
Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed in United States District Court docket in Southern District of Florida Miami Division for sexual battery.
McGregor, Basketball Properties LLC that operates Kaseya Middle, the Miami Warmth, and Compass Group USA have been named as defendants in a swimsuit filed by a Jane Doe, in line with paperwork acquired by MMA Junkie.
Front Office Sports first reported the lawsuit Wednesday.
Whereas the lawsuit states McGregor is aware of the lady’s id, “Jane Doe needs to take care of her anonymity within the proceedings of this Honorable Court docket to keep away from embarrassment and disgrace from the conduct mentioned on this Criticism in addition to to guard her privateness in her profession as she is 49 years outdated and employed as a Senior Wall Road Vice President in a excessive profile monetary establishment.” McGregor lawyer Barbara Llanes advised USA TODAY Sports the previous UFC’s star authorized staff is “assured” the case will likely be dismissed.
“After a radical investigation on the time, the State’s Lawyer concluded that there was no case to pursue,” Llanes mentioned. “Nearly two years and a minimum of three legal professionals later, the plaintiff has a brand new false story. We’re assured that this case too will likely be dismissed.”
Allegations of the alleged incident in the course of the 2023 NBA Finals Recreation 4 have been broadly reported within the days that adopted. Nonetheless, the state lawyer’s workplace later declined to seek criminal charges after the sufferer reported the alleged incident to police attributable to “inadequate proof” and “contradicting and/or no corroborating witness.”
In keeping with the lawsuit, Doe says she was forcefully led to the lavatory in the course of the recreation by McGregor’s safety. She then claims McGregor tried to power his penis into her mouth, then anus, whereas she was in a rest room stall.
Doe seeks judgement towards McGregor “for previous and future medical therapy, compensatory damages, and prices, and such different and additional reduction because the courtroom deems affordable.” She requests the matter go earlier than a jury.
McGregor’s three co-defendants are being sued for gross negligence. Doe alleges McGregor was protected by enviornment safety and allowed to remain when he was knowingly a hazard to the general public after he hospitalized an individual contained in the staff’s mascot costume throughout a mid-game skit gone flawed. As well as, the swimsuit alleges staff and venue workers continued to serve McGregor alcohol, and likewise to permit him to serve alcohol to himself, after the incident with the mascot.
Summonses have been filed by the district’s deputy clerk Wednesday.
This civil lawsuit just isn’t the primary filed towards McGregor. In November, McGregor was found liable for sexual assault towards an Irish girl named Nikita Hand throughout an incident in a Dublin lodge room in 2018.
McGregor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, regardless of the Irish jury’s resolution. He has but to remark publicly on the latest civil lawsuit. McGregor has not fought since a mid-2021 TKO loss to Dustin Poirier by which he broke his leg.
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