Police Probe Ronaldo

[rebel23]

Police probe Ronaldo-transvestite incident
Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:40pm BST

RIO DE JANEIRO (REUTERS) - Police said on Monday they were investigating allegations by three transvestites that Brazilian football star and AC Milan forward Ronaldo threatened to harm them after he took them to a Rio de Janeiro motel.

Police told a news conference they were also looking into an accusation by the 31-year-old player that one of the three men tried to extort 50,000 reais (14,900 pounds) in return for not telling the media about the incident.

Ronaldo, who is back in his hometown recovering from an injury, left a nightclub in the posh Barra da Tijuca neighbourhood early on Monday with three call girls, only to find out at the motel they were men, according to authorities.

He then offered each of them 1,000 reais to wrap up the matter, but only two of them accepted his offer, police said.

"I have to check both sides of the story, the transvestites' version and Ronaldo's," Carlos Augusto Nogueira, chief of the police precinct investigating the incident, told a news conference.

"Ronaldo said he is not good in the head and that he is going through psychological problems because of his recent surgery," he said.

In a statement, Ronaldo said he was a victim of extortion and would take all possible steps to clear his name, according to the Web site of the Globo television network.

Representatives for Ronaldo were not immediately available for comment.

The three-time World Player of the Year suffered a career-threatening knee injury in February in a match against Livorno. Ronaldo suffered a similar injury in his right knee when playing for Inter Milan in 2000.

(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Writing by Elzio Barreto; Editing by Eric Walsh)

[rebel23]

Transvestite Andre Luis Ribeiro Albertino, who goes by the working name of Andreia Albertine, holds up the driver's license and car registration documents of soccer star and AC Milan forward Ronaldo, outside the Papillon Motel in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca April 28, 2008. Police said on Monday they were investigating allegations by three transvestites that Brazilian soccer star and AC Milan forward Ronaldo threatened to harm them after he took them to a Rio de Janeiro motel.

[woo-lfc]

Still by far the best striker of his generation, a true legend!

[WaltonRed]

Ha ha, oh deary me.

[Doh'Nuts]

Is it a Cartman style probe? I guess it could be, considering the people involved.

Actually, I was hoping it would be the manc one. I bet he'd enjoy it too.

[Son of L8]

Originally Posted by Doh'Nuts

Actually, I was hoping it would be the manc one. I bet he'd enjoy it too.

He'd be the one in the dress.

[cochcaer]

Christ I bet Ronaldo got a surprise when his hands wandered! Mad thing is, the ugly sod is normally dating some uber fit model.

[Newport]

Coop, your PS-skills are needed.

[taliesin08]

He must of been off his tits, it happens to the best of us I remember one night off me head in the reaperbahn...

[sybian]

Pity it wasent that diving cunt who plays for the scum

[RoboRiise]

I love the fact that it seems one of them nicked his wallet too. Fucking hell Ronny, you and Johnny Vegas eh?

Good job it wasn't Edmundo, the police would be fishing pieces of them out of the sea for months.




Or Adriano, he'd probably have eaten them. Then got pissed.






They'd have been best off with Garrincha - he'd probably have screwed the lot of them, the crazy bastard.

[Thants]

Ronaldo devastated by transvestite incident

* Reuters
* , Monday May 5 2008

(adds details, further quotes)
By Brian Homewood
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 4 (Reuters) - Brazilian striker Ronaldo fears his reputation has been ruined forever after his "shameful" run-in with transvestites in Rio de Janeiro last week.
"I've done something really stupid in my personal life," the AC Milan player said in an interview with Globo television on Sunday.
"We are all subject to making mistakes and I made a mistake in looking for this. I did not at any moment know they were tranvestites," the 31-year-old added in his first public appearance since the incident last Monday.
"I cried a lot afterwards. I was incredibly ashamed."
Police said Ronaldo, who is recovering from a knee injury, went to a motel in Rio's upmarket Barra da Tijuca district with three call girls only to find out they weretransvestites.
The police have said they are considering charging one of the transvestites with extortion and stealing Ronaldo's driving licence.
Ronaldo, who gave the interview at his plush seaside mansion in Angra dos Reis, admitted the incident had done irreparable damage to his reputation.
"This was the worst decision of my personal life," he said. "It took on a very big dimension and had worldwide repercussion. It will stain my personal life forever."
"For the sensationalist media, this has had a bigger impact than the World Cup," said Ronaldo, who scored both goals when Brazil beat Germany 2-0 in the 2002 World Cup final.
'SILLY' FIGHT
He said the fateful evening had began after he had a "silly" fight with his girlfriend.
"I did not know they were transvestites, I'm completely heterosexual," he said. "When we got to the place, I concluded that they were transvestites.
"I tried to stop there and go home -- it was here that the extortion started.
"I wanted to finish by paying what we had agreed. Two accepted but the third didn't want to accept and asked an absurd quantity for it not to come out in the media."
Ronaldo added: "I preferred to face the situation head on rather than be extorted."
He said his girlfriend had reacted furiously, though she later supported him.
"When I told her the story she swore at me. Afterwards she gave me support," the player said. "Obviously it was very difficult for her to forgive, we don't know what will happen from now on.
"Behind the personality which I carry, I'm a normal person and I have my weaknesses and my fears.
"I have to reconstruct everything. It's like a house which has been knocked down by a hurricane. Now I have to build it all over again."
(Editing by Alastair Himmer)

hehe

[Unrighteous]

Agreed with the above, "Its a shame it's not that diving little cunt".