Trump tried to pay me after sex: former Playboy model
LOS ANGELES: A former Playboy model has apologised to US first lady Melania Trump for a 10month affair she claims she had with President Donald Trump that started with him offering her money after the first time they had sex.
During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that aired yesterday, Karen McDougal said Trump tried to pay her after their first sexual tryst at a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2006.
‘‘Well, after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me. And I actually didn’t know how to take that,’’ she said. ‘‘But I looked at him and I said, ‘That’s not me. I’m not that kind of girl’.’’
McDougal continued the relationship with Trump for about 10 months and broke it off in April 2007 because she felt guilty.
Trump married his current wife, Melania Trump, in 2005, and their son, Barron, was born in 2006.
Speaking to CNN, McDougal apologised when she was asked what she would say to Melania Trump.
McDougal said she never wanted to discuss her relationship. But after the story became public, she wanted to get out and tell her side of what happened, she said.
The White House has said Trump denies having an affair with McDougal. — AP