New York Daily News

Stormy & artist trying to ID goon in ‘zip it’ threat

- BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE

PORN STAR Stormy Daniels is working with a forensic sketch artist to help identify the man she claims threatened her to stay silent about an alleged tryst she had with President Trump.

Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ lawyer, tweeted Sunday a photo of his client sitting next to “foremost forensic artist,” Lois Gibson, as she looks through a book with images of faces.

Gibson says on her website that her sketches have helped identify more than 700 criminals.

It’s unclear when the photo was taken or when a sketch would be released.

Avenatti’s photo tease comes a day after he said a “major announceme­nt” was coming soon regarding the “efforts to identify the thug who threatened Ms. Clifford in Las Vegas in 2011 to “leave Trump alone” while making reference to her little girl.”

“You can run, but you can’t hide,” the lawyer warned.

Avenatti did not immediatel­y respond to requests for comment.

Daniels (photo), whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claimed she slept with Trump in 2006 — the same year his wife, Melania Trump, gave birth to their son, Barron.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, paid the porn star $130,000 to stay silent about the affair, The Wall Street Journal first reported in January.

Daniels told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that years after she gave a magazine an interview about the tryst, a man threatened her as she was heading to the gym in Las Vegas.

“A guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,’ ” she said. “And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.’ ”

Daniels said she never saw the man again, but would immediatel­y recognize him if they ever crossed paths.

On Thursday, Trump, for the first time, acknowledg­ed the scandal, saying he knows nothing about the hush money.

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