New York Daily News

Playmate suing Trump donor, Stormy lawyer over pact

- BY NANCY DILLON

The Playmate who signed a $1.6 million hush agreement with Trump donor Elliott Broidy to hide their alleged affair and abortion filed a mysterious lawsuit Friday against Broidy, her former lawyer and Michael Avenatti.

The lawsuit was immediatel­y sealed, but sources said it relates to alleged breaches of the nondisclos­ure agreement. The complaint came just days after Broidy's reported decision to halt his $200,000 installmen­t payments on the pact.

One source said Shera Bechard is accusing Avenatti, who does not represent her, of speaking publicly about private elements of the deal around the time the Wall Street Journal confirmed the agreement in April.

Speaking to The News on Friday, Avenatti scoffed at the accusation.

“This is laughable,” said the lawyer who represents porn star Stormy Daniels in her separate NDA battle with Trump.

“I never knew the terms of the (Bechard deal) or that there was any confidenti­ality provision,” he told the Daily News. “If that is the basis for them suing me, they should be suing the Wall Street Journal reporters and every other reporter that reported on the alleged agreement.”

In a Twitter statement, Avenatti said it was earlier Friday that he first learned of the complaint that also names Bechard's former lawyer Keith Davidson as a defendant.

Davidson brokered Bechard's deal and was the same lawyer who represente­d Daniels when she signed her $130,000 hushmoney agreement with Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen, meanwhile, was the lawyer who allegedly repped Broidy in the Bechard deal.

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