Former Playboy Model Karen McDougal sues to announce her relationship with President Trump
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| Former Playboy Model Karen McDougal Sues to Break Silence on Relationship With Trump |
VietPress USA (Mar. 20, 2018): Last March 15, 2018, the Sporn Star Stormy Daniels and her Lawyer announced to do the crowdfund raising for US$130,000.00 to pay back the hush money to Trump's Lawyer Michael Cohen in order she can speak out to American people her sexual relationship with President Trump during nearly a year in 2006.
Porn star Stormy Daniels launched a crowdfunding campaign to help cover the cost of her legal battle against President Trump and his lawyer, Michael Cohen, who paid her $130,000 days before the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about alleged sexual relations she had with Trump a decade earlier.
She sues Trump and sai that: “I am attempting to speak honestly and openly to the American people about my relationship with now President Donald Trump and the intimidation and tactics used against me,” Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, writes on the campaign’s website.
The Straits Times reported that "Stormy Daniels may face more than US$20 million in damages for violating a "hush agreement" that requires
her to remain silent about an affair she alleges she had with US President
Donald Trump in 2006 and 2007.
The potential damages against Daniels, an actress in adult
films whose real name is Stephanie Cliffords, were disclosed on Friday (March
16) in a filing in federal court in Los Angeles by Essential Consultants LLC,
an entity that was set up by Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in 2016 to
pay her US$130,000 in exchange for her silence.
The company moved the lawsuit, filed by Daniels last week in
California state court against Trump, to federal court, saying that neither
Daniels, Trump nor the LLC are California residents and the amount of damages exceeds
the US$75,000 limit for a case to proceed in state court. Trump supports the
transfer of the case between courts, according to Essential Consultants'
filing.
"It could be a strategic move to intimidate them,"
said Joseph Rothberg, a lawyer with Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber LLP in
Woodland Hills, California. "They may be saying, 'We're not going to make
it easy for you."' Federal judges, who are appointed by the president, are
perceived as somewhat more conservative than California state court judges, who
are elected, according to Rothberg, who isn't involved in the case. On top of
that, the anti-Trump sentiment in California may have played a role in the
decision, Rothberg said.
Daniels faces US$1 million in damages for each violation of
the agreement, according to Friday's filing. Essential Consultants said it will
file a request at the earliest opportunity to force Daniels to arbitrate the
case privately rather than to litigate it in open court.
She sued on March 6 to nullify the confidentiality agreement
she says she struck with Cohen in October 2016, before the presidential
election, to keep quiet about the alleged affair. She argues the document is
invalid because Trump didn't sign it, even though she took the US$130,000
offered in exchange for her silence. Cohen has said he paid it himself, through
a company he set up."
The big scandal with Port Star Stormy Daniels is on the stage, but now the spotlight shows another scandal when the former Playboy Model Karen McDougal declares to sue President Trump for breaking her silence on her relationship with President Donald Trump.
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Former Playboy Model Karen McDougal Sues to Break Silence on Relationship With Trump
Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald Trump, is taking a page straight out of the Stormy Daniels playbook.
According to a The New York Times report, McDougal filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to get out of her 2016 non-disclosure agreement, becoming the second woman in two weeks to filed a lawsuit accusing the president or his allies of trying to bury news about a Trump extramarital affair.
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McDougal is suing American Media Inc., The National Enquirer’s parent company, which, according to the Wall Street Journal, paid her $150,000 to buy her story — but never ran it. The Enquirer’s chief executive, David Pecker, is a friend of Trump’s.
Also Read:Ex-Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal Says She Had 9-Month Affair With Trump - And Deal to Keep Quiet
Porn star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, said in a lawsuit filed March 6 that her “hush agreement” with Trump is invalid. Trump attorney Michael Cohen agreed in October 2016 to pay her $130,000 to keep her from talking about an extramarital affair she said she had with Trump just over a decade ago.
The White House did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. But Trump has repeatedly denied both affairs.
In her lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, McDougal claims that Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, was in talks with American Media behind her back and that both AMI and her lawyer at the time misled her about the deal.
McDougal, who spoke to The New Yorker last month, after the publication obtained notes she took about Trump, said that A.M.I. “warned” that her breach of the non-disclosure agreement could result in “considerable monetary damages.”
McDougal’s lawyer, Peter K. Stris, told the Times, A.M.I. was engaging in “a multifaceted effort to silence” his client.
McDougal filed her suit just as Clifford is about to make her “60 Minutes” debut, which, according to The Washington Post, is tentatively scheduled to air this Sunday.
Trump’s team is seeking $20 million from Clifford, arguing she violated her non-disclosure.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that A.M.I., one of the country’s largest tabloid news providers, is known to buy damaging stories about allies for the sole purpose of burying them, a practice known as “catch and kill.”
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