{"id":173094,"date":"2025-12-03T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/173094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:46:07","slug":"woman-withdraws-alleged-sexual-assault-case-against-former-mma-fighter-conor-mcgregor-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/173094\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman withdraws alleged sexual assault case against former MMA fighter Conor McGregor \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman who accused former mixed martial arts fighter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/conor-mcgregor\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> of sexually assaulting her at a Miami Heat basketball game in Florida in 2023 has dropped her civil lawsuit in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The legal action was filed in the District Court in Florida at the beginning of the year. In her original complaint , the 49-year-old plaintiff \u2013 a senior Wall Street executive \u2013 alleged that Mr McGregor assaulted her by engaging in \u201cunlawful sexual contact\u201d in a bathroom stall at the Kaseya Centre in Miami following the basketball match between Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets on June 9th, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She had further claimed that Mr McGregor acted for \u201chis own sexual gratification and for the purposes of degrading [her]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Miami Heat and Basketball Properties LLC, operators of the Kaseya Centre, were also named in the legal action as co-defendants when it was taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Legal papers filed in the US court on Tuesday show that the unnamed woman, identified as \u201cJane Doe\u201d in the legal action, has withdrawn her case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">James Richard Dunn, the Florida-based lawyer acting on behalf of the woman, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal \u201cwith prejudice\u201d, meaning she extinguishes any right to pursue a claim in another legal action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fact that the action has been terminated by the woman under these terms means that no future litigation in connection with the case will be possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A criminal case against the former UFC champion was dropped in October 2023 following a police investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr McGregor (37) has denied the claims that he assaulted the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last year, he was ordered to pay Nikita Hand \u20ac250,000 in damages after a High Court jury in a legal action upheld her civil claim that she was assaulted by McGregor in the Beacon Hotel in south Dublin on December 9th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last month, a panel of three Supreme Court judges met to consider Mr McGregor\u2019s application for a further appeal over the civil jury findings in that case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The application for appeal was held in private and a decision on the appeal application will be announced at a future date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last July the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal against the High Court civil jury finding in Ms Hand\u2019s favour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The court upheld the jury\u2019s award of almost \u20ac250,000 in damages to Ms Hand and directed she was entitled to her legal costs against Mr McGregor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who accused former mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her at a Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1714,2195,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-173094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-conor-mcgregor","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}