"Ronaldo in transvestite scandal"

[Buzz]

Brazilian football star Ronaldo has been caught up in a sex scandal with three cross-dressing prostitutes.

Having dropped off his girlfriend at her house in Rio de Janeiro on Monday night, the 2002 World Cup winner picked up three prostitutes.
When they all booked into a motel, the AC Milan striker discovered that the prostitutes were in fact men.


According to Rio police, he alleges that the transvestites then tried to extort money from him.



Local press reports quoted one of the prostitutes, Andreia Albertine - otherwise known as Andre Luiz Ribeiro Albertino - as saying that Ronaldo had threatened to hit him, on discovering that he was a transvestite.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7374317.stm

[Nikka]

no news is good news

[kukm4]

Page last updated at 20:53 GMT, Tuesday, 29 April 2008

[danthepoetman]

I always wander what the scandal is in such circumstances. In this occurrence, is it that he was with escorts, that the escorts were transvestites (if they weren’t truly ts), that he threatened to hit one of them, or that he’s a soccer player. Or maybe that he is a sucker?

[Buzz]

I think he's a sucker because he said, after he was caught, that he was "having psychological problems related to his injuries". See the video at the bottom of the BBC page. The story may be 4 years old but it's the #3 most popular story on BBC News today.

[danthepoetman]

The article was worth reading indeed. It’s one of these cases, you know, where you just wander: is it completely outrageous or perfectly delirious? The poor victim act cannot work too well if you consider any of the facts… Weird, or what?!!!!!

[SammiValentine]

Ronaldo was prompt to squash the rumours, I mean squish..

[danthepoetman]

Well, if I understand, the squash is... I mean the guy is cooked, indeed. And now this whole thing has turned into purée.

[ibanezuk]

this always gets me,

how can you go from this:


to that:
http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine/...g-and-more?p=2

[bluesoul]

I always wander what the scandal is in such circumstances. In this occurrence, is it that he was with escorts, that the escorts were transvestites (if they weren’t truly ts), that he threatened to hit one of them, or that he’s a soccer player. Or maybe that he is a sucker?

being caught in any one of those situations is embarrassing (except being a soccer player), but a combination of all of them is recipe for a scandal