Conor McGregor has been removed from the popular online game Hitman. Found responsible for sexual assault By a jury in a civil case.
McGregor plans to appeal the decision, but must pay more than $262,000 (€250,000) to his victims. Nikita Hand filed a civil lawsuit in early 2021 alleging McGregor and another man, James Lawrence, had sex with her while intoxicated and without her consent in 2018, but no criminal charges were filed. There wasn't.
IO Interactive, the developer of the Hitman game, reacted immediately after the ruling, announcing that it would remove the former UFC champion from the game.
“In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease working with athletes with immediate effect,” the company wrote. ×. “We take this issue very seriously and cannot ignore its impact. As a result, we will begin removing all content featuring Mr. McGregor from our stores from today.”
McGregor accepted him. social media The day after the verdict, he apologized to his wife.
“People want to hear from me. I needed time. I know I made a mistake. I never should have answered her call six years ago. “I should have called off the party. I shouldn't have stepped out on the woman I loved the most in the world,” McGregor wrote.
“It's all my fault. I'm sorry, but everything that happened that night was consensual and all the witnesses who were there swore under oath to that effect.”
Mr McGregor has instructed his defense team to appeal the decision, adding that they must “move forward”, not backward.
“I couldn't be more grateful to my family, friends, and supporters around the world for being by my side. That's it. Enough is enough. I'm back in the gym – the fight game awaits!”
McGregor is part of a paid downloadable content pack in which gamers take on a mission to assassinate an eccentric billionaire before or during a fight to the death in an island castle surrounded by an elite secret society. Masu.
McGregor has had a number of run-ins with law enforcement around the world in recent years. He is accused of breaking bus windows and attacking fans in separate incidents in both Florida and Ireland.
He was accused of assaulting an Italian musician in Rome and a woman on a yacht in Spain. Other sexual assault allegations against the fighter have been similarly dropped.
It will be interesting to see if the IO Interactive team reinstates McGregor if the verdict is overturned, but the question will always remain whether he should have been in the game in the first place given his troubles outside the Octagon. . That was the reason I took him out.
McGregor faces a new legal battle. His former training partner Artem Lobov is suing him over the development of his popular whiskey Proper Twelve, claiming the liquor brand was originally his idea. irish star Reported.
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