Former UFC star Conor McGregor recently faced a significant legal defeat as Ireland’s Court of Appeal upheld a prior civil jury’s finding that he raped Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in December 2018. The jury at the original trial found McGregor liable for the assault and ordered him to pay Hand nearly €250,000 in damages, along with approximately €1.3 million in legal costs. These rulings followed a lengthy civil trial held in Dublin’s High Court, where Hand described being “brutally raped and battered” by McGregor after a Christmas party.
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Conor McGregor has repeatedly denied the allegations, insisting their encounter was fully consensual.