Argentina legend Diego Maradona quizzed by Spanish police after heated argument with girlfriend
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tPolice quizzed retired football star Diego Maradona over an argument with his girlfriend at his hotel in Madrid on Wednesday morning.
The pair were staying at the hotel ahead of Wednesday night's Champions League tie between Real Madrid and the star’s former side Napoli.
Officers were dispatched after receiving a call from the hotel but found no evidence of any serious disturbance after talking to Maradona and the woman.
A police spokesman told ESPN : "We received a call at 8.30 a.m. from the manager of the hotel, and the emergency services were also informed after an argument broke out between Diego Maradona and his girlfriend.
"The emergency services arrived but were not needed.
"Maradona and his girlfriend were questioned, but there were no signs of assault and neither Maradona nor his girlfriend wanted to press charges.
"The police and the emergency services left the premises."
Staff at the Eurostars Suites Mirasierra Hotel, the five-star hotel where the incident involving Maradona and his girlfriend is said to have happened, declined to comment.
A receptionist said: “We are not making any comment so cannot help you.”
Maradona, 56, was filmed in an angry confrontation with journalists at the hotel on Monday night as he came out of dinner with Rocio, 26.
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(Photo: Europa Press)
He told one reporter who claimed during a live feed Maradona had hit him as he tried to question him about the Real Madrid-Napoli match: “If I had hit you, your nose wouldn’t look like it does” before adding after squaring up to the journalist: “Remember that if I punch you, I’ll destroy you.”
The retired footballer and his girlfriend have had a turbulent relationship.
In July 2014 Rocio was arrested in Argentina after Maradona accused her of stealing more than £250,000 worth of watches from his Dubai mansion.
He later withdrew the complaint.
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(Photo: Getty)
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In October 2014 he was branded a “psychopath” and “woman beater” after appearing to hit Rocio for using her mobile phone.
Footage she filmed of him staggering off a sofa looking the worse for wear, moaning at her for using the phone, and then apparently striking her twice with his right hand as she screamed at him to stop, was leaked to a newspaper.
He claimed afterwards he had only knocked the phone out of her hand and would never hit a woman.
Rocio’s aunt branded him a “psychopath and woman beater” over the incident.
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She also claimed the video that had been leaked was just a part of a longer recording showing even more violence.
Maradona started dating Rocio at the start of 2013 after dumping girlfriend-of-eight years Veronica Ojeda.
He has had a series of well-publicised run-ins with Veronica as well as fighting an ugly legal battle with ex-wife Claudia Villafane, the mother of their two daughters Dalma, 29, and Gianinna, 27.