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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mamma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Alex Nicholson from Mamma MIA's

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Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quickie. Here's what's happening in

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Speaker 1: the news Today. Tuesday, November twenty six A woman who

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Speaker 1: claimed mixed martial arts fighter Connor McGregor brutally raped and

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Speaker 1: batted her in a Dublin hotel penthouse has been awarded

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Speaker 1: nearly two hundred and fifty thousand euros. A woman who

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Speaker 1: claimed mixed martial arts fighter Connor McGregor brutally raped and

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Speaker 1: batted her in a Dublin hotel penthouse has been awarded

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Speaker 1: nearly two hundred and fifty thousand euros around four hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand Australian dollars by a civil court jury in Ireland.

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Speaker 1: Nikita Han said the assault on December ninth, twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: after a night of partying, left her heavily bruised and

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Speaker 1: suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. McGregor testified that he

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Speaker 1: never forced the woman to do anything against her will,

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Speaker 1: and said she he fabricated the allegations after the two

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Speaker 1: had consensual sex. His lawyer has called Hand a gold digger,

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Speaker 1: the fighter, once the face of the Ultimate Fighting Championship

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Speaker 1: but now passed his prime. Shook his head as the

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Speaker 1: jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict

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Speaker 1: after deliberating for about six hours in the High Court

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Speaker 1: in Dublin. He later said on social platform x that

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Speaker 1: he would appeal the verdict and the modest award. Hans's

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Speaker 1: voice cracked and her hands trembled as she read a

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Speaker 1: statement outside the courthouse, saying she would never forget what

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Speaker 1: happened to her, but would now be able to move

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Speaker 1: on with her life. She thanked her family, partner, friends, jurors,

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Speaker 1: the judge, and all the supporters who had reached out

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Speaker 1: to her online, but particularly her daughter, who she said

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Speaker 1: had given her strength and courage. In his post on

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Speaker 1: ex MacGregor said he was disappointed jurors didn't see all

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Speaker 1: of the evidence prosecutors had reviewed. However, the jury ruled

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Speaker 1: against Hand in a case she brought against one of

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Speaker 1: McGregor's friends, James Lawrence, whom she accused of having sex

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Speaker 1: with her in the hotel without consent. A US judge

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Speaker 1: has dismissed the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of

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Speaker 1: attempting to overturn his twenty twenty election defeat. It comes

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Speaker 1: after prosecutors move to drop that prosecution and a second

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Speaker 1: case against the president elect, citing Justice Department policy against

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Speaker 1: prosecuting a sitting president. The order puts an end to

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Speaker 1: the federal effort to hold Trump criminally responsible for his

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Speaker 1: attempts to hold onto power after losing the twenty twenty election,

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Speaker 1: which culminated in the January sixth, twenty twenty one attack

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Speaker 1: on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters.

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Speaker 1: It represents a big legal victory for the Republican candidate,

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Speaker 1: who won the recent US election and is set to

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Speaker 1: return to office in January. Courts will still have to

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Speaker 1: approve both requests from prosecutors. Trump spokesman Stephen Chung has

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Speaker 1: called it a major victory for the rule of law.

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Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Combs has been hit with yet another graphic

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Speaker 1: drink spiking sexual assault allegation. The fifty four year old

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Speaker 1: rapper is a waiting trial on sex trafficking and racketeering

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Speaker 1: charges and a notoriously tough jail in Broad New York

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Speaker 1: on top of the slew of cases he is already

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Speaker 1: facing from alleged victims. A woman has now come forward

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Speaker 1: to claim she was sexually assaulted at one of his

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Speaker 1: now notorious white parties and is pursuing legal action. Latroia

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Speaker 1: Grayson was twenty three in two thousand and six when

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Speaker 1: she says she won a pair of tickets on a

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Speaker 1: radio show to attend a party hosted by Combs in

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Speaker 1: New York. Grayson told The Daily Mirror she believes her

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Speaker 1: drinks were spiked soon after she arrived at the celebrity

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Speaker 1: packed party, also claiming she was robbed and left with

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Speaker 1: only twenty dollars in her wallet. She said she later

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Speaker 1: felt her genitals hurting and received a call from an

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Speaker 1: unknown number with a woman on the other end of

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Speaker 1: the line allegedly warning her to stay silent about the

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Speaker 1: events of the night of the party. Grayson told The

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Speaker 1: Mirror she would be taking legal action against Combs and

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Speaker 1: said she had secured a legal team. She joins more

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Speaker 1: than one hundred people accusing homes of sexual assaults, all

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Speaker 1: of which he desires and have you ever heard of

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Speaker 1: the Presley curse? Now? Riley Keo, the granddaughter of music

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Speaker 1: legend Elvis Presley has said she doesn't believe it exists.

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Speaker 1: Speaking about the family's apparent run of bad luck, the

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Speaker 1: thirty five year old actress said her famous family is

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Speaker 1: looked at as something of mythology, when really the run

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Speaker 1: of bad luck is fairly common, referencing things like addiction.

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Speaker 1: The alleged Presley Curse has become law following a series

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Speaker 1: of tragic events spanning three generations. Elvis Presley's death at

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Speaker 1: forty two from drug related complications in Graceland, his daughter

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Speaker 1: Lisa maries tumultuous life and premature death at fifty four

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Speaker 1: from cardiac arrest, and his grandson Benjamin Keyo's death at

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Speaker 1: age twenty seven. The curse also encompasses recurring patterns of

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Speaker 1: substance abuse, financial troubles, failed marriages, and untimely deaths that

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Speaker 1: have plagued the family across decades. The hope, Keo said

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Speaker 1: is that future generations of the Presley family won't struggle

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Speaker 1: so much with addiction. That's your evening news headlines. On

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, We're diving back into the

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Speaker 1: allegations leveled against musician turn mogul Diddy check out the Quickie.

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