Ex-Playboy model talks of affair with Trump

Aformer Playboy model recalled having sex with Donald Trump dozens of times in the early years of the president’s marriage to Melania Trump, sharing elaborate details Thursday of what she described as a 10-month love affair.

Karen McDougal, the magazine’s 1998 Playmate of the Year, told CNN that she was racked with guilt about Trump cheating on his wife, especially when he took her on a tour of the couple’s Trump Tower penthouse apartment when Melania was not home.

“That just puts a little stab in your heart,” McDougal told Anderson Cooper. “I couldn’t wait to get out of the apartment, actually.”

McDougal, who remembered Trump showing her his wife’s private bedroom, apologised to the first lady.

“What can you say except I’m sorry?” she said. “I’m sorry. I wouldn’t want it done to me.”

McDougal, 46, said Trump flirted with her when they met in 2006 at a Playboy Mansion party celebrating the taping of an Apprentice episode there. He asked for her phone number, then invited her to meet for dinner a week later at the Beverly Hills Hotel, she said.

His bodyguard, Keith Schiller, picked her up and drove her to the hotel, where after a pleasant dinner in his bungalow McDougal had sex with Trump, she told CNN. Trump, she said, offered her money at the end of the evening, but she turned him down and told him, “I’m not that kind of girl.”

She recalled feeling deeply hurt. “I was crying in the back seat of the car,” she said of the ride home with Schiller.

But she and Trump fell in love and wound up seeing each other at least five times a month until she broke up with him in April 2007, McDougal said.

“If he weren’t married, I wouldn’t have any regrets,” she said.

McDougal said she was a Republican who voted for Trump.