Stormy Daniels arrested at Ohio strip club

COLUMBUS: Porn actress Stormy Daniels (pic) was arrested at an Ohio strip club and is accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law, her attorney said.

While Daniels was performing at Sirens, a strip club in Columbus, some patrons touched her in a “non-sexual” way, her lawyer Michael Avenatti said yesterday.

An Ohio law known as the Community Defence Act prohibits anyone who isn’t a family member to touch a nude or seminude dancer.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was in police custody early yesterday morning and was expected to face a misdemeanour charge, Avenatti said.

“This was a complete set up,” he said. “It’s absurd that law enforcement resources are being spent to conduct a sting operation related to customers touching performers in a strip club in a non-sexual manner.”

A Columbus police spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a message seek- ing comment.

A person who answered the phone at the strip club declined to comment.

Daniels has said she had sex with President Donald Trump in 2006 when he was married, which Trump has denied.

She is suing Trump and his former longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and seeking to invalidate a non-disclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election. — AFP