Robinho, a former Brazil forward, was given a nine-year term for his role in a violent sexual assault in a Milan bar in 2013.
Robinho, who was playing for AC Milan at the time, was a member of a group who gang-raped a 23-year-old Albanian lady at the Sio Cafe nightclub in 2017. He was jailed in 2017 but lost two appeals.
The ex-footballer no longer has the opportunity to appeal, therefore the Rome court’s latest decision is irrevocable. It is unclear if he will serve his term in a Brazilian or an Italian prison.
Ricardo Falco, a friend of Robinho’s, is in the same boat, while four others fled the country before being charged and convicted. Robinho, 37, was still playing professional football in 2020, three years after receiving his original sentence and seven years after the crime was committed.
The former Brazil international stated that their relationship was mutually beneficial, and their defense consisted of disparaging the victim by stating she was a heavy drinker.
The sentence was maintained by the Milan appeals court in 2020 after the initial conviction in 2017, stating that the victim was humiliated and used by the player and his buddies to satisfy their sexual needs.
