Conor McGregor’s rape accuser claims NBA offered her $100,000 hush money
Conor McGregor’s accuser has set her sights on the NBA, the Miami Heat and the Miami Police Department for what she says is mishandling the aftermath of her alleged assault, her attorney says.
Attorney Ariel Mitchell tells DailyMail.com that Heat and NBA officials went to great lengths to keep the June 10 incident quiet and offered hush money to the alleged victim.
“The NBA offered us $100,000 to keep this quiet,” Mitchell said. “They withdrew the offer when the news broke.”
Mitchell says both the Heat and the basketball league could be liable for what she believes happened to her client.
“Some of the guards standing by when this happened were not McGregor’s. They’re hired by the Heat,” Mitchell said. “They decided to serve a celebrity rather than protect a young woman in trouble.”
Attorney Ariel Mitchell is representing the Conor McGregor rape accuser and told DailyMail.com that her client has her sights set on the NBA and the Miami Heat
Footage shows McGregor’s accuser sitting at a club table with the MMA fighter in the minutes after she alleges he assaulted her in a bathroom
The pair can be seen holding drinks when the woman gestures. McGregor then says something unintelligible before walking away
DailyMail.com is protecting the woman’s identity and is not naming her due to the nature of the alleged crime.
Ariel Mitchell, the attorney for a woman who has accused McGregor of sexual assault, spoke to DailyMail.com
Mitchell says Miami police called off the alleged victim when she tried to report the assault hours after the alleged incident at the Miami Heat’s downtown arena.
Mike Bass, the NBA’s chief of communications, told DailyMail.com that the league had nothing to offer women.
“This claim is categorically false,” he said.
Miami Heat spokesman Tim Donovan did not return calls and emails asking for comment.
According to Mitchell, “First she went to the police station where she lives and they told her to go to another police station where this happened. So that’s a rejection of a victim of assault.
“Then, at the lawful police station, she came in shortly after 4:30 p.m. and was walked out of the police station half an hour later.”
What happened, says Mitchell, is that the detective who was called to the lobby of the police station where the alleged victim reported her assault prevented her from filing a report.
“He walked her out of the building in no time,” says Mitchell. “The detective told her to hire a lawyer before filing a police report. He told her, “If you report it today, it will go viral.” That, of course, convinced her to wait, and that’s not good for the investigation.’
In addition, Mitchell said, police admitted that a sexual assault report that would go viral is a failure of the institution.
“How would it go viral if the police didn’t report this to the media themselves,” Mitchell wondered aloud.
McGregor lashed out at Burnie, the Miami Heat mascot, during a break in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on the night the alleged attack occurred
The woman’s lawyer sent this letter to McGregor this week describing the alleged incident. He denies the allegations
Eventually, the alleged victim hired Mitchell who returned her to the police station on June 14, four days after the incident.
“They know what they did,” Mitchell said when asked if her client plans to sue the Miami Police Department. “They sent her away. They rejected the victim of a sexual assault.”
“The NBA offered us $100,000 to keep this quiet,” Mitchell said. “They withdrew the offer when the news broke”
Mitchell said her client turned in the alleged victim’s clothing from the night of the alleged attack with what she described as “McGregor’s DNA” on it.
“The police didn’t even ask for it,” says Mitchell. “I had to tell them to turn in the clothes as evidence.”
Miami police officer Michael Vega, the spokesperson for the department, declined to provide details and provide the incident report, saying the investigation is continuing.
However, he said the serial number on the incident report shows a case open on June 11.
“We opened the case when the victim first came in,” Vega said. “As happens with many investigations, she had to come back for additional information. I can’t imagine any officer or detective in this department dismissing a victim of a sex crime.’
It’s an incident that McGregor denies ever happened.
Shortly after the conclusion of game four of the NBA Finals, which saw the Denver Nuggets lead 3-1 against the Miami Heat, McGregor reportedly forced a young woman he had just met at the courtside club into a bathroom and would he have sexually assaulted her with security. guards posted outside to prevent anyone from walking in.
Once in the bathroom, she told police that the MMA fighter, who is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 157 pounds and has barely any body fat, forced her to perform oral sex on him and attempted to sodomize her without her consent.
McGregor, the defacto face of UFC, sat courtside for most of the match and even starred in what would become a mid-game comedy starring Burnie, the Heat’s mascot.
Instead of a mock fight with Burnie, a 7-foot-6 mascot with orange fur and a basketball for a nose, McGregor cooled the mascot and sent the injured resident to the emergency room.
McGregor and his fiancee Dee Devlin alongside their three children; Conor Jr., Croia and Rian. Together they are expecting their fourth child
McGregor, who is recovering from a broken leg and will fight Michael Chandler in the fall, is expecting his fourth child with his fiancée, Dee Devlin.
Mitchell said her client would have been willing to “go home with (McGregor).”
However, when he walked out of the club with his entourage and someone grabbed her client’s hand, Mitchell thought the young woman was leaving the arena for a night on the town and not for a quickie in a bathroom.
Mitchell says her client came home in the early hours of June 10 and began to reflect on what was happening in the arena.
“She was angry about it,” Mitchell said. “She had a talk with her family and she decided to go to the police.
Mitchell added that her client left Miami this weekend and is currently in an undisclosed location outside of Florida, while Mitchell began receiving what she calls “death threats.”
“She’s been having fits of crying,” Mitchell said of her client. Her mental health is at stake here. So she decided to leave