Conor McGregor’s sexual assault accuser is targeting the NBA, the Miami Heat and the Miami Police Department for what she claims was mishandling of the aftermath of her alleged attack, her attorney has said.
Attorney Ariel Mitchell told DailyMail.com that Heat and NBA officials were working to keep the June 10 incident quiet and offered silent money to the alleged victim.
“The NBA offered us $100,000 to keep this quiet,” Mitchell said. “They canceled the offer when the news broke.”
Mitchell says the Heat and the basketball league may be responsible for what she claims happened to her client.
“Some of the security guards standing there when this happened were not McGregor’s. They were hired by the Heat,” Mitchell said. “They decided to take care of a celebrity instead of protecting a young woman in trouble.”
Lawyer Ariel Mitchell represents Conor McGregor rape accuser and tells DailyMail.com his client is looking to the NBA and the Miami Heat
Footage shows McGregor’s sexual assault accuser sitting with the MMA fighter at a club table minutes after she claimed he sexually assaulted her in a bathroom
The pair can be seen holding drinks as the woman gestures. McGregor then says something inaudible before walking away
DailyMail.com protects the woman’s identity and does not name her due to the nature of the alleged crime.
Ariel Mitchell, the lawyer for a woman who accused McGregor of sexual assault, spoke to DailyMail.com
Mitchell says Miami police blew up the alleged victim when they tried to report the assault, hours after the alleged incident at the Miami Heat’s downtown arena.
NBA director of communications Mike Bass told DailyMail.com that the league offered nothing to the woman.
“This claim is categorically false,” he said.
Miami Heat spokesman Tim Donovan did not return the call and emails sought comment.
According to Mitchell, “first she went to the police station where she lives and then they told her to go to another station where it happened.” So that’s a rejection of a sexual assault victim.
“Then in the legitimate precinct she entered shortly after 4.30pm and half an hour later she was taken out of the police station.”
What happened, Mitchell says, was that the detective summoned to the lobby of the precinct where the alleged victim reported her assault dissuaded her from filing a proper report.
“He got her out of the building in no time,” Mitchell says. “The detective told him to hire a lawyer before filing a complaint with the police. He told her, “If you drop today, it will go viral.” Of course, that convinced her to wait, and that’s not good for the investigation.
Also, Mitchell said, the police’s admission that a report of sexual violence going viral is a failure of the institution.
“How would this go viral if the police themselves didn’t report this to the media,” Mitchell wondered aloud.
McGregor hit Burnie, the Miami Heat’s mascot, during a break in Game 4 of the NBA Finals the night the alleged attack took place
The woman’s attorney sent this letter to McGregor this week detailing the alleged incident. He denies the allegations
Eventually the alleged victim hired Mitchell who brought her back to the police station on June 14, four days after the incident.
“They know what they’ve done,” Mitchell said when asked if his client intended to sue the Miami Police Department. “They fired her. They turned away the victim of a sexual assault.
“The NBA offered us $100,000 to keep this quiet,” Mitchell said. “They canceled the offer when the news broke”
Mitchell said her client returned the clothes of the alleged victim from the night of the alleged assault with what she described as “McGregor’s DNA” on them.
“The police didn’t even ask for it,” Mitchell says. “I had to tell them to put the clothes into evidence.”
Miami Police Officer Michael Vega, spokesman for the department, declined to provide details and produce the incident report as he said the investigation was continuing.
He said, however, that the serial number on the incident report indicates a case opened on June 11.
“We opened the case when the victim first arrived,” Vega said. “As happens in many investigations, she had to come back for additional information. I can’t imagine an officer or detective in this department would turn down a victim of a sex crime.
It’s an incident that McGregor denies ever happened.
Shortly after the end of Game 4 of the NBA Finals which saw the Denver Nuggets take a 3-1 lead against the Miami Heat, McGregor allegedly forced a young woman he had just met at the club from the court to a bathroom and sexually assaulted her with safety. guards posted outside to prevent anyone from entering.
Once in the bathroom, she told police the MMA fighter, who is 5ft 9in and 157lbs with barely any body fat, forced her to perform oral sex on her and attempted to anal fuck her without his consent.
McGregor, the de facto face of the UFC, sat on the court for most of the match and even performed in what was to be a mid-game comedy with Burnie, the Heat’s mascot.
Instead of a mock fight with Burnie, a 7-foot-6 mascot with orange fur and a basketball for his nose, McGregor chilled the mascot and sent its occupant to the ER with injuries.
McGregor and his fiancée Dee Devlin alongside their three children; Conor Jr, Croia and Rian. They are expecting their fourth child together
McGregor, who is recovering from a broken leg and is due to fight Michael Chandler in the fall, is expecting his fourth child with his fiancée, Dee Devlin.
Mitchell said his client would have been willing to “go home with (McGregor)”.
However, when he walked out of the club with his entourage and someone grabbed his client’s hand, Mitchell says, the young woman believed she was leaving the arena for a night out on the town and not for a bang. quickly in a bathroom.
Mitchell says his client came home in the early hours of June 10 and started thinking about the events at the arena.
“She was upset about it,” Mitchell said. “She had a conversation with her family and she decided to go to the police.
Mitchell added that her client left Miami over the weekend and is currently at an undisclosed location outside of Florida as Mitchell began receiving what she calls “death threats.”
“She had crying spells,” Mitchell said of her client. “His mental health is at risk here. So she decided to lea
