{"id":35679,"date":"2025-07-31T19:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:54:16","slug":"mma-star-conor-mcgregor-loses-appeal-over-rape-damages-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35679\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA star Conor McGregor loses appeal over rape damages case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the November ruling, McGregor was ordered to pay the entire costs of the case, estimated at around \u20ac1.5m ($2.9m).<\/p>\n

He appealed the jury\u2019s decision, seeking a retrial of the civil case against him.<\/p>\n

McGregor, a vocal figure in the Irish anti-immigration movement who in March met US President Donald Trump in the White House during a St Patrick\u2019s Day visit, was not in court during a month of appeal hearings.<\/p>\n

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His legal team argued that judicial errors occurred in the original trial, including how he was cross-examined.<\/p>\n

After the ruling, Hand told reporters that the appeal had \u201cretraumatised\u201d her but that she can now \u201cfinally move on and try to heal\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo every survivor out there, I know how hard it is, but please don\u2019t be silenced, you deserve to be heard, you also deserve justice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed \u201cThe Notorious\u201d, McGregor is one of the biggest stars in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial arts circuit, formerly holding the featherweight and lightweight titles.<\/p>\n

The Irishman was sued in a US court in January, accused of sexual assault at an NBA game in Miami in 2023.<\/p>\n

He has announced plans to run in Ireland\u2019s presidential election this year.<\/p>\n

The vote to elect the country\u2019s next president \u2013 a largely ceremonial role without executive power \u2013 must be held by mid-November, but he faces several steep hurdles to get on the ballot.<\/p>\n

– Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the November ruling, McGregor was ordered to pay the entire costs of the case, estimated at around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[32484,1110,449,64,63,32483,2460,32287,14851,1108,32481,2976,786,26779,32482,21886,31409,796,14852,28007,785,8936,13396,25028,85,4031,16642,1547],"class_list":["post-35679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accused","tag-appeal","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-awarding","tag-case","tag-civil","tag-conor","tag-court","tag-damages","tag-fighter","tag-fighting","tag-ireland","tag-last","tag-loses","tag-lost","tag-martial","tag-mcgregor","tag-mixed","tag-mma","tag-over","tag-rape","tag-ruling","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-woman","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}