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Trump ‘affairs’: President Trump personally waded into the Stormy Daniels scandal for the first time last week, filing court papers accusing the porn star of violating a hush agreement about an alleged affair in 2006 and saying she owes him $20 million in damages. Daniels, 39, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has sued to be released from the agreement and has recorded an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. Her lawyer claims Clifford “was physically threatened to stay silent” about Trump, and that six additional women have come forward alleging relationships with the president. Former Playboy model Karen McDougal this week sued to be released from her own “catch and kill” agreement with the parent company of the Trump-friendly National Enquirer, which she claims paid her $150,000 for rights to her story about an alleged affair with Trump and then buried the story.