Cristiano Ronaldo is all smiles while holding hands with his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez while arriving at the Provincial Court of Madrid on Tuesday (January 22) in Madrid, Spain.
The 33-year-old Portuguese soccer superstar appeared in court to pled guilty to tax fraud after being accused of using a shell company to hide income generated by his image rights over the course of about three years, during his days at Real Madrid.
Cristiano was given a two-year suspended sentence and will not have to go to prison, but he will be fined nearly $21.6 million.
Prosecutors wanted the soccer forward to serve 23 months in prison, but under Spanish law a first-time offender sentenced to less than 2 years can have the term suspended.