More details emerge about Trump’s relationship with porn star
Two reports this week offered more details about what they described as a sexual relationship between Donald Trump and Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic-film actress who was reportedly paid $130,000 in hush money shortly before the 2016 election.
In Touch magazine published excerpts on Wednesday from its 2011 interview with Clifford, 38, known as Stormy Daniels. In them, she said she had had an affair with Trump that started in 2006 and continued on and off for a few years.
A Slate article published on Tuesday by Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, expanded on what he told the New York Times on Friday. Slate detailed his communications with Clifford from August to October 2016. Her account is similar to that published by In Touch.
Clifford told Weisberg that her lawyer Keith Davidson, who has represented a number of pornographic-film stars and models, had negotiated the $130,000 deal with Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s lawyer. Weisberg said she was sharing these details because Trump had not yet paid her or finalized the confidentiality agreement. The Wall Street Journal published an article Friday reporting that the payment had been made.
Davidson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Cohen again denied that there had been any sexual relationship between Trump and Clifford.
Clifford could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
In Touch said that Clifford painted Trump as forward but friendly, even boyish, when they met in 2006, and said that she was a willing participant.
“We had really good banter,” Clifford said of Trump. “He told me once that I was someone to be reckoned with, beautiful, smart, just like his daughter.”
Clifford told the magazine that the relationship began at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nev. — just months after Melania, Trump’s wife, gave birth to their son, Barron. Clifford said she and Trump had sex after dinner and hours of conversation in Trump’s hotel suite. The sex was “textbook generic,” she said.