TALE OF DON SEX

Tells mag: Had affair, got paid by Enquirer to hush

A FORMER PLAYBOY Playmate of the Year documented her alleged affair with the future President Trump in a handwritten journal and acknowledged selling off her story to a gossip media group that suppressed it.

Karen McDougal, a former model who says she has recently found God and regretted parts of her past, wrote in the journal that Trump introduced her to his family, showed her his wife’s separate bedroom in Trump Tower, and brought her to his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel during the nine-month affair.

The journal was obtained by the New Yorker, and McDougal, 46, confirmed to the magazine that she’d written it.

But McDougal said she was limited about what else she could say because of a confidentiality agreement she’d signed with American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer.

She confirmed the company — which is run by Trump pal and supporter David Pecker — paid her $150,000 shortly before the 2016 election to clam up about any account of any affair she had with a “then-married man.”

That “then-married man” was the then-reality star of “The Apprentice,” who she said would fly her across the country to have sex at events including the Lake Tahoe golf tournament where he allegedly began an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump denied the New Yorker report, as the White House has done with news about Daniels, despite the fact Trump lawyer Michael Cohen confirmed that he paid Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket for her silence.

Those around McDougal said that she ended the relationship, which included meeting Trump’s sons, after thinking about “what her mother thought of her,” the report said.

The payment to keep McDougal silent was part of AMI’s “catch and kill” strategy to help Trump, the New Yorker report said.

AMI told the mag they didn’t run her account because they didn’t find it credible, and they gave her the money to do a fitness column for them.

But AMI struck the deal with McDougal in August, and her first column appeared after the Wall Street Journal did a story on her $150,000 deal.

She’s written a total of nine columns since.

A source who’s spoken to her said, “At $150,000 for nine columns she has to be one of the highest paid journalists in New York.”