Stormy Daniels, the porn star who was paid to keep quiet about her affair with Donald Trump, sued the president, alleging that her nondisclosure agreement before the 2016 election is void because Trump failed to sign it.
In the lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, Daniels - whose real name is Stephanie Clifford - said she wanted to go public with the story of her affair with Trump in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
Stormy Daniels. Photo / AP
Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Daniels's attorney, Keith Davidson, negotiated what the lawsuit calls a "hush agreement" in which she would be paid US$130,000. After delays and even a wholesale cancellation of the contract by Daniels on Octover, 17, the payment arrived on October 27, 12 days before the election, according to e-mails reviewed by The Washington Post.
Cohen said recently that he used his own money to "facilitate" the payment.
The lawsuit suggests Trump was aware of the agreement and that the money was intended to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, bolstering two complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission that say the payment violated election law because it was not reported as an in-kind campaign donation.
Porn star details secret 'hush agreement' with Donald Trump
The steamy details of the agreement have been revealed after Stormy — real name Stephanie Clifford — announced she was suing the President overnight, alleging he never signed the "hush agreement" his lawyer had put together just days before he was to become the most powerful man in the world.
The real names on the agreement were so sordid that even the nondisclosure agreement needed codenames; porn star Stormy Daniels was known as "Peggy Peterson" or "PP".
Court documents filed by porn star Stormy Daniels.
The other name, though, was slightly more sordid. If this got out, it could mean very troubled waters.
For Donald Trump, the agreement, which was signed by Stormy on October 28, 2016, came just days before the Presidential election — and he had a mess to clean up.
In the agreement, Trump was instead referred as "David Dennison" or "DD".
The hush agreement directed US$130,000 be paid to Stormy and in return, she would keep her silence, not disclosing any confidential information about Trump, the couple's affair, or his sexual partners, to anyone beyond a shortlist she had already told about the relationship.
She was also not to share any photos or texts from the then Presidential-hopeful.
"[The sex] was textbook generic," Stormy told InTouch magazine in 2011.
It "was nothing crazy. It was one position, what you would expect someone his age to do."
Stormy alleges she had an affair with Trump after meeting him at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
According to court documents seen by news.com.au, the relationship continued "well into the year 2007" and included at least one "meeting" with Trump in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The alleged tryst happened one year after he married Melania Trump and just months after his son Barron was born.
Daniels posted a photo of herself smiling next to a beaming Trump on her MySpace page in mid-July 2006.
She agreed to go back to his hotel room, where she said she teased him about his hair and he evaded her questions about Melania.
"He goes, 'Oh, don't worry about her'," she told the magazine.
"He was sitting on the bed, and he was like, 'Come here.' And I was like, 'Ugh, here we go,' and we started kissing," Daniels said.
Afterwards, he asked her to sign a copy of her X-rated film, 3 Wishes.
Trump then became "smitten" and started calling her every 10 days, promising to get her on The Apprentice and referring to her as "honeybunch," she said
For the agreement to work Stormy's lawyers claim both parties needed to sign the agreement — and the initials "DD" — or "Dennis Dennison" — fail to appear on the agreement.
The civil suit alleges though Trump's lawyer signed the agreement, Trump himself never signed, therefore allowing Stormy to disclose all the juicy details of her "intimate" relationship with Trump.
