Porn actress sues to end silence on alleged affair with Trump
LOS ANGELES — An adult film actress who has said she had sex with Donald Trump filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement and “set the record straight,” her lawyer said Wednesday.
Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday. She alleges the agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, which prevented her from discussing the alleged sexual encounters, is “null and void and of no consequence” because Trump didn’t personally sign it.
Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said on morning news shows Wednesday she wants “to set the record straight.” He said on NBC there was “no question” Trump knew about the agreement, though he did not offer any proof.
Avenatti said Daniels wasn’t looking to profit from her story. But he told CBS: “I don’t know whether she’s going to ultimately seek payment or not.”
Asked about Avenatti’s claims Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: “We’ve addressed our feelings on that situation, and I don’t have anything else to add.”
Clifford alleges she began an “intimate relationship” with Trump in 2006 and that it continued “well into the year 2007,” according to the lawsuit . She said the relationship included encounters in Lake Tahoe, Nev., and Beverly Hills, Calif. Trump married his current wife, Melania Trump, in 2005.
Clifford claims she had sex with Trump once and then carried on a subsequent yearslong platonic relationship.