Daily Express

Trump faces new affair claim

- By John Chapman

DONALD Trump was last night embroiled in a fresh scandal over an alleged fling with a former Playboy model.

Karen McDougal claims the nine-month affair with the future US president took place shortly after Mr Trump’s wife Melania gave birth to the couple’s son Barron and a magazine bought her story in order to bury it.

Mr Trump denies any affair. The White House said: “This is an old story that is just more fake news. The president says he never had a relationsh­ip with McDougal.”

Ms McDougal, 46, a former Playmate of the Year, said she met Mr Trump at a Playboy Mansion party in 2006 and he “immediatel­y took a liking” to her. The New Yorker magazine is understood to have obtained a hand-written account of the affair, which she confirms was in her own handwritin­g. The eight-page document said Ms McDougal visited Mr Trump at a private bungalow in the Beverly Hills Hotel and he offered her cash after their first sexual encounter. “We talked for a couple hours – then, it was ‘ON’! We got naked + had sex,” she wrote.

After Mr Trump allegedly offered her money she said: “I looked at him (+ felt sad) + said, ‘No thanks – I’m not ‘that girl’. I slept w/you because I like you – NOT for money’ – He told me ‘you are special’.’’

Ms McDougal said she ended the affair in 2007 over raciallych­arged comments she claimed he made about black men and crude remarks about a friend.

She was persuaded to sell her account for $150,000 (£107,000) but it was never published, in what she said was an attempt to hush up the story.

The allegation­s come just a month after Mr Trump was forced to deny an alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had a fling with him soon after Barron’s birth.

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‘Affair’ claim...Mr Trump and Karen McDougal

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