Former US
President
Donald Trump has been indicted in New York for paying porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
In a social media post a week ago, Trump, who is seeking to return to the presidency in 2024, said he expected to be arrested and called on his supporters to protest.
The investigation surrounding the former president centers on a
$130,000
payment that Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, gave to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Stormy Daniels.
The porn actress.
Who is Stormy Daniels?
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is an American adult film actress who has gained significant media attention in recent years.
She first rose to fame in 2018,
when it was revealed that she had been paid by Cohen to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
The scandal surrounding the alleged affair, and the subsequent hush money payment, made international headlines and sparked a legal battle between Daniels and the president's camp.
Daniels filed a lawsuit to invalidate the confidentiality agreement, claiming that Trump never signed it and that it was therefore not legally binding.
Michael Cohen.
Donald Trump's lawyer.
Despite efforts to keep the story under wraps, Daniels has become a staunch critic of the former president and his administration.
He went on to speak about his alleged meeting with Trump,
calling attention to issues such as campaign finance violations and the use of non-disclosure agreements to silence victims of sexual assault.
Meeting on a golf course
The then extravagant businessman recounted on the NBC program,
The Apprentice
, that
He met the 27-year-old porn actress
on a golf course
during a celebrity tournament in Nevada.
He had traveled there alone, leaving behind his third wife Melania with their newborn son, Barron.
Trump and Stormy Daniels.
Trump and Daniels met again later that day in the gift room and were photographed together in the booth of their porn studio,
Wicked Pictures
.
Then the former president invited her to dinner in her suite at the luxurious Harrah's Lake Tahoe hotel and casino, and she accepted.
Stormy Daniels showed up in a strappy gold dress and stilettos, while he wore black silk pajamas and slippers.
Trump and Stormy Daniels.
Then they went to bed, according to her.
Daniels said that Trump called her on the phone several times
, and they met again, but they no longer had sex.
And that might have been it, were it not for Trump's ultimately aborted decision to run in the 2011 presidential election.
In exchange for $15,000, Daniels gave an interview about that night to
In Touch Weekly
magazine , but Trump found out and threatened to sue the magazine.
The article was not published and she did not get paid.
In 2016, he again tried to sell the story.
This time, with Trump poised to win the election, the stakes were higher.
At that point, Cohen, Trump's lawyer, stepped in again to kill the story,
offering him $130,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement.
Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels.
Daniels signed his copy in the trunk of a car near a porn film set in California.
And Cohen signed on behalf of Trump.
In the end, the money was wasted.
The story broke anyway two years later, in 2018, when Daniels sued Trump in an attempt to void the non-disclosure agreement.
The growth of Stormy Daniels
Since 2018, the porn actress has not stopped taking advantage of the visibility of her scandals.
She launched a perfume called
Truth
with the tagline: "It's the bomb! Stormy Daniels embrace your truth."
Stormy Daniels.
The porn actress who reached a settlement of 450 thousand dollars.
In July 2018, she was detained by police officers during a sting at a strip club in Columbus, Ohio.
At that time she was accused of illegally touching a patron of the
Sirens Gentlemen's Club
.
And with that the pursuit of Daniels began.
Michael Avenatti, her lawyer at the time, described the charges - which were dropped the next day - as motivated by "the testimony of the porn actress against a relevant political figure".
Stormy Daniels.
Her testimony complicates Donald Trumpo.
Ultimately, Daniels had the last laugh and
settled with the city for $450,000.
His memoir,
Full Disclosure
, written with journalist Kevin Carr O'Leary, was published a month later.
One reviewer described the book as "more flashy than thoughtful", but it contained enough detail to satisfy its readers.
The rebirth of Stormy Daniels
In July 2021, the VH1 television channel announced that Daniels would appear in the hit series
The Surreal Life
, an American celebrity reality show.
The show featured Daniels teaching aspiring porn stars the tricks of the trade.
Stormy Daniels currently lives in the country surrounded by horses and a porn actor.
She was also the host of
For The Love of DILFs
, a gay dating show on the LGBT network OUTtv.
Daniels has also become a film director, and in her latest project,
Lawless.
She also married the porn actor, Russell Blade and they settled on a farm in Florida where they have horses, another of her passions.
"Thank you @barrettblade777 for giving me the house, life and family of my dreams," she wrote on Instagram shortly after getting married.
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