Ariel Mitchell tells New Occasions her shopper deteriorated right into a frantic state after the encounter in a restroom within the Courtside Membership — a high-priced VIP room tucked contained in the Miami Warmth’s stadium — within the early hours of June 10. In line with Mitchell, the girl went to the Miami Police Division on June 11 to report the incident however was “turned away” and suggested to hunt authorized counsel.
“She actually did not know what to do, actually emotional. My shopper is a decent profession skilled. She’s not some younger ‘THOT,’” says Mitchell, whom the girl contacted after her preliminary try to file a police report. “She was simply jarred by this expertise.”
Because it occurred, the lawyer says she was additionally in attendance at Sport 4 and was sitting behind McGregor.
The alleged sufferer returned to the Miami Police Division alongside Mitchell on June 14, filed a report over the incident, and turned over her garments for forensic evaluation, Mitchell says.
McGregor’s representatives denied the allegations in a press release saying, “Mr. McGregor is not going to be intimidated.”
“The allegations are false,” the assertion reads.
The Miami Police Division confirmed to New Occasions that the incident is beneath investigation by a particular victims’ unit.
Courtside Membership Encounter
Mitchell tells New Occasions her shopper met McGregor on the Kaseya Heart the night time of NBA Finals Sport 4 and was having drinks with him within the Courtside Membership, a VIP room contained in the stadium that blasts pop music and affords bottle service to members. The Kaseya Heart’s advertising supplies describe the world as “an elegant, intimate getaway” with a neon signal declaring, “It was all a dream.” The membership is inaccessible to most of the people, and membership is required for entry at a value of $7,000 per season.
Early within the night, McGregor participated in a promotional skit for the fighter’s pain-relief spray, during which he had a fake boxing match with the Warmth’s mascot Burnie round half-court. The guy contained in the Burnie costume reportedly was injured in the course of the bit and brought to a neighborhood hospital.
Video footage obtained by TMZ exhibits McGregor taking a girl by the hand in the direction of a males’s toilet within the Kaseya Heart later that night time, adopted by a second girl and McGregor’s safety guard.
It was in a disabled-access stall of the lavatory that the alleged sexual assault passed off, Mitchell says.
Mitchell despatched demand letters to McGregor’s purported agent, the Miami Warmth, and the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, laying out the claims and warning of impending litigation.
Within the letters, the lawyer alleges McGregor had the sufferer separated from her good friend, “trapping her inside with Mr. McGregor and his safety guard.” The letter states that McGregor tried to aggressively kiss her within the stall, however she “was in a position to get [him] to stop” the advance by telling him she had to make use of the bathroom.
“When the sufferer tried to urinate, Mr. McGregor, as a substitute of giving her privateness to take action, pulled out his penis,” Mitchell alleges within the letters.
The girl tried to go away the lavatory and bodily resisted the previous UFC Featherweight and Light-weight Champion repeatedly, however he endured with the sexual advances, Mitchell writes. At one level, the lawyer alleges, McGregor grabbed the sufferer and ripped her pants whereas pulling them down.
The demand letters threaten authorized motion towards the Warmth, saying safety on the membership mustn’t have let McGregor take a girl right into a males’s toilet, particularly in gentle of previous allegations towards him.
Lawyer Ariel Mitchell claims MMA star Conor McGregor sexually assaulted her shopper on the Courtside Membership within the Miami Warmth stadium on June 10, 2023, after an NBA Finals recreation.
Previous Claims In opposition to McGregor
McGregor has been beforehand accused of sexual misconduct in his hometown of Dublin and on the Mediterranean island of Corsica however was by no means convicted of a criminal offense. He has vehemently denied wrongdoing.
Within the Dublin incident, a girl accused McGregor of sexually assaulting her in a resort penthouse in December 2018. The Unbiased reported that the Director of Public Prosecutions declined to press prices. The alleged sufferer filed a civil lawsuit, whereas McGregor maintained his innocence.
Within the Corsica incident, the MMA star was accused of exposing his genitalia to a girl as she made her approach to a bar toilet within the French city of Calvi in August 2020. In April 2021, investigators discovered proof was inadequate to pursue a case towards McGregor.
“I’m irate and placing out a warning loud and clear: Conor McGregor isn’t and won’t be a goal for these in search of to attain a headline or a payday,” McGregor’s supervisor Audie Attar mentioned earlier than the Corsica investigation was closed.
Other than claims of sexual misconduct, the Final Preventing Championship (UFC) legend has run into authorized bother for a handful of violent incidents exterior the ring.
McGregor was arrested in March 2019 after he grabbed and smashed a person’s cellphone exterior the Fontainebleau resort in Miami Seashore. (The incident was captured on digicam.) The cellphone’s proprietor settled a lawsuit towards McGregor over the incident, and in line with Miami-Dade prosecutors, he declined to cooperate within the felony case towards the fighter, main a theft cost towards McGregor to be dropped.
A month after the phone-smashing ordeal, McGregor — one of many UFC’s largest stars, credited with serving to revive the league throughout its struggling years — was seen on video punching an older man within the face on the Marble Arch Pub in Dublin. He pleaded responsible to assault in an Irish courtroom and was fined however served no jail time.
The 12 months prior, in April 2018, McGregor participated in a headline-grabbing assault during which he chucked metallic gear at a bus carrying rival Khabib Nurmagomedov and different UFC fighters exterior the Barclays Heart on the UFC 223 occasion in New York Metropolis. He pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and carried out neighborhood service per courtroom order.
Excessive-Profile Litigator
Ariel Mitchell has made her mark lately representing purchasers in a spate of sexual assault claims lodged towards high-profile defendants.
She is presently litigating an assault declare in Miami-Dade County towards singer Tremaine Neverson AKA Trey Songz, alleging that he pushed his hand into a girl’s vagina whereas she was hanging out with him and dancing at E11even nightclub in Miami. The case took an uncommon flip when Neverson’s authorized group accused Mitchell of attempting to repay a witness, a declare Mitchell says was fabricated by the defendants and dismissed by the Florida Bar.
The lawyer tells New Occasions that when she handles a declare towards an entertainer or high-profile defendant, she is preventing towards a “tradition that protects celebrities.” Her shopper within the Kaseya Heart case has already been bombarded with on-line hypothesis that she’s a clout-chaser or groupie.
“I have been seeing the feedback already saying she’s on the lookout for clout. Searching for clout? Why is her title not in all places then?” the lawyer asks. “When [celebrities] do egregious issues and exhibit abhorrent conduct, we glance the opposite manner.”
Within the letters despatched to McGregor, the NBA, and the Warmth over the alleged June 10 incident, Mitchell notes her agency has been “retained as litigation counsel to pursue all authorized treatments.”
“This agency has been instructed to discover all cheap settlement affords to resolve these claims earlier than they escalate additional,” the letters state, giving a June 12, 7 p.m. deadline to the recipients.
The letters finish with the salutation, “Namaste.”
