Conor McGregor faces new civil lawsuit alleging sexual battery at 2023 NBA Finals game

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UFC star Conor McGregor faces another civil lawsuit for sexual misconduct, this time stemming from an alleged incident at a Miami Heat game in 2023.

Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed in United States District Court in Southern District of Florida Miami Division for sexual battery.

McGregor, Basketball Properties LLC that operates Kaseya Center, the Miami Heat, and Compass Group USA were named as defendants in a suit filed by a Jane Doe, according to documents acquired by MMA Junkie.

Front Office Sports first reported the lawsuit Wednesday.

While the lawsuit states McGregor knows the woman’s identity, “Jane Doe wishes to maintain her anonymity in the proceedings of this Honorable Court to avoid embarrasment and shame from the conduct discussed in this Complaint as well as to protect her privacy in her career as she is 49 years old and employed as a Senior Wall Street Vice President in a high profile financial institution.”

McGregor attorney Barbara Llanes told USA TODAY Sports the former UFC’s star legal team is “confident” the case will be dismissed.

“After a thorough investigation at the time, the State’s Attorney concluded that there was no case to pursue,” Llanes said. “Almost two years and at least three lawyers later, the plaintiff has a new false story. We are confident that this case too will be dismissed.”

Allegations of the alleged incident during the 2023 NBA Finals Game 4 were widely reported in the days that followed. However, the state attorney’s office later declined to seek criminal charges after the victim reported the alleged incident to police due to “insufficient evidence” and “contradicting and/or no corroborating witness.”

According to the lawsuit, Doe says she was forcefully led to the bathroom during the game by McGregor’s security. She then claims McGregor attempted to force his penis into her mouth, then anus, while she was in a bathroom stall.

Doe seeks judgement against McGregor “for past and future medical treatment, compensatory damages, and costs, and such other and further relief as the court deems reasonable.” She requests the matter go before a jury.

McGregor’s three co-defendants are being sued for gross negligence. Doe alleges McGregor was protected by arena security and allowed to stay when he was knowingly a danger to the public after he hospitalized a person inside the team’s mascot costume during a mid-game skit gone wrong. In addition, the suit alleges team and venue employees continued to serve McGregor alcohol, and also to allow him to serve alcohol to himself, after the incident with the mascot.

Summonses were filed by the district’s deputy clerk Wednesday.

This civil lawsuit is not the first filed against McGregor. In November, McGregor was found liable for sexual assault against an Irish woman named Nikita Hand during an incident in a Dublin hotel room in 2018.

McGregor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, despite the Irish jury’s decision. He has yet to comment publicly on the most recent civil lawsuit.

McGregor has not fought since a mid-2021 TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in which he broke his leg.