Ex-Man City star Benjamin Mendy was left nearing bankruptcy after former club withheld wages - forcing him to sell property and supercars for massive losses
Mendy made heavy losses as he sold his six-bed mansion The Spinney in Prestbury, Cheshire after Manchester City suspended the left-back without pay one month after he was charged in 2020.In the immediate aftermath of the allegations, Mendy was forced to shut down his image rights company after he was unable to pay a tax bill.
In a statement released outside the court through a representative, he thanked jurors for "focusing on the evidence… rather than on the rumour and innuendo that have followed this case from he outset". She claimed the footballer took her phone and brought her to his locked bedroom as she tried to get it back.The woman alleged he had raped her when she went to pick her phone up off his bed despite telling him she did not have sex.
They were at a Barcelona nightclub in late 2017 and she became intimate with one of his friends, jurors at Chester Crown Court heard.
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