Some new details are coming out about Conor Mcgregor’s case. According to The Daily Mail, McGregor’s rape accuser is claiming the NBA offered her $100k in hush money.
The news outlet reported that his accusers lawyer, Ariel Mitchell spoke with them and claims the Miami Heat and NBA officials weren’t trying to make the situation go public, but now McGregor is being accused of “violently” sexually assaulting a woman in a bathroom during game 4 of the NBA finals.
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The source that spoke with The Daily Mail alleges that the NBA was willing to cough up $100,000 for the individual to “keep it quiet,” which the league has responded and said those claims are false. “This claim is categorically false,” Mike Bass, the NBA’s chief communications officer, said in a statement.
As we previously reported, Mitchell, claims that security separated the woman from her friends and forced her into a bathroom where McGregor was allegedly waiting, per the New York Post.
A video also surfaced later showing McGregor and the victim at a club following the game. The woman and McGregor were seen talking and then he leaves the scene. Mitchell told TMZ Sports that the video showed the two “visibly awkwardly interacting with each other.”
“My client has always stated that there would be video of before and after, and in those videos she emphasized that the difference in the interactions between them would be visibly noticeable,” Mitchell said. “This again is another video that supports what my client has been saying and supports what she told the police since the inception of this incident.”
On the other hand, McGregor’s lawyer, Barbara R. Llanes, said this about the video: “While the claimant’s story has changed yet again, our account of the evening has never changed. This video only reinforces our position. We look forward to the swift conclusion of the investigation.”
A separate TMZ video was revealed this past Friday showing McGregor escorting the woman to the bathroom by the hand. There were several people standing by the door, which had been shut.
Mitchell, who said the two were together at a club inside the arena before the incident occurred in the bathroom, said her client was under the impression she was leaving the arena when a man in a Denver Nuggets jersey told her, “Conor told me to come get you.”
After seeing the video with McGregor ushering her out, Mitchell said her client “did not even recall who led her into the restroom until seeing this video.”
“After the video was released by TMZ, the claimant’s lawyer now has changed her story,” Llanes said. “Mr. McGregor welcomes the investigation, which he firmly believes will show the claims against him are false. After not responding to the demand for money made by claimant’s counsel, she turned to the media to apply pressure. This is no more than a shakedown.”
Mitchell responded back saying that these accusations were “false” and there is no attempted “shakedown.”
“Mr. McGregor‘s team can say this is a shakedown, these allegations are false, but the video is clear. A soon-to-be married man with a fourth baby on the way is himself leading a woman he doesn’t know and not his pregnant fiancée into the bathroom,” Mitchell said.