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Soccer star Ronaldo socked by scandal involving transvestite prostitutes By HAROLD EMERT in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York DAILY NEWS WRITERS Thursday, May 1st 2008, 1:27 AM Ronaldo, one of the world's best soccer players, is up to his knee socks in scandal today after his run-in with a pair of transvestite prostitutes wound up on YouTube. The Brazilian superstar told cops he had no idea the "ladies" he picked up were men until he brought them to a hot sheets hotel early Monday. Footage of Ronaldo recoiling from them was taken by the spurned hookers, one of whom is under investigation for trying to extort $30,000 from the superstar, Brazilian media reported. Andre Albertini, who goes by Andrea, denied he tried to blackmail Ronaldo and insisted the soccer star tried to buy his silence. "Ronaldo begged me not to ruin his career and asked me if 50,000 reais would shut my mouth," Albertini said. The other hooker, Junior Ribeiro da Silva, aka Carla Tamini, added, "when we entered his car he asked if we knew who he was. "I said yes, but didn't make a fuss because I have gone out with handsomer men," he told a Brazilian newspaper. "At the motel he was polite and very gentle - treating a woman like a princess." Brazil's most famous transvestite, Rogeria, scoffed at Ronaldo's claim that he didn't know what he was buying. "Ronaldo needs a pair of glasses," Rogeria said. "It