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 30 Apr Ronaldo caught up in sex scandal
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (pictured) the Brazilian football star known simply as, Ronaldo, has been caught up in a sex scandal with three cross-dressing prostitutes.
According to Rio police, Ronaldo picked up three prostitutes after dropping off his girlfriend at her house in Rio de Janeiro on Monday night. When they all booked into a motel, the AC Milan striker who is in his home country to recover from an injury, discovered that the prostitutes were in fact men.
Ronaldo alleges that the transvestites then tried to extort money from him. Local press reports quoted one of the prostitutes, Andreia Albertine - otherwise known as Andre Luiz Ribeiro Albertino - as saying that Ronaldo had threatened to hit him, on discovering that he was a transvestite.
Ronaldo "reported that Andreia had taken his car documents and demanded $30,000 [£15,000]", said Rio police superintendent Carlos Augusto Nogueira.
He added: "Ronaldo admits the facts. He said he just wanted to amuse himself, that's not a crime. To pay to have sexual relations isn't illegal. There's a strong chance that Ronaldo has been the victim of extortion."
In a statement, Ronaldo who won the Fifa world footballer of the year three times, reiterated that he was a victim of extortion. He also told police he was having some psychological problems linked to his knee injury.
Under Brazilian law, while pimping sex workers and running establishments where sex is sold are illegal, prostitution itself is not.
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