Model sues over ‘Trump affair silencing’
A FORMER Playboy model who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump is suing to be released from a contract that prevents her from talking publicly about the alleged relationship.
The lawsuit comes as it emerged the porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Mr Trump, passed a lie-detector test over the matter in 2011. Karen Mcdougal is suing AMI, the owners of the National Enquirer, which paid her $150,000 (£107,000) for her story in 2016 and then did not publish it while requiring her to stay silent. In her legal claim Ms Mcdougal also alleged that Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s personal lawyer, had been secretly involved in her talks with AMI.
Peter Stris, her lawyer, told the New York Times there had been a “multifaceted effort to silence Karen Mcdougal”. The alleged 10-month affair was said to have begun in 2006.
It also emerged that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, took a lie-detector test over similar affair claims with Mr Trump a decade ago.
The examiner found there was a 99 per cent probability she was telling the truth. Meanwhile, a New York judge ruled that a defamation case against Mr Trump could go ahead. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, claimed that she was harassed by Mr Trump in 2007 in a Beverly Hills hotel. When he accused her of making it up she sued for defamation.