The adult film star, the Apprentice contestant and the former Playboy Bunny. Today it’s three women making news because of their association with Donald Trump.
According to The New York Times, “A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence.”
Karen McDougal is suing American Media, the company that owns the National Enquirer. McDougal claims she was taken advantage of and misled when she signed an agreement saying she would sell her story to the Enquirer. That story depicted an alleged 10-month affair with Trump back in 2006-2007. The 46-year-old says she didn’t realize at the time that her own lawyer was working with “Trump representatives,” including his personal attorney Michael Cohen. McDougal says she eventually learned that they wanted to pay her $150,000 to NOT publish her story because the owner of the tabloid was “close personal friends with Mr. Trump.” In exchange for the payment though, the lawsuit states she was promised magazine covers and columns “but none of those promises came to fruition.” Read her full complaint here.
A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald Trump is suing to be freed from a 2016 legal deal requiring her silence https://t.co/ndoXHRMcrC
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 20, 2018
Also today Trump had a setback in New York when a judge ruled that a former Apprentice contestant’s lawsuit against Trump can go forward. Summer Zervos is suing for defamation, accusing Trump of sexually assaulting her.
Trump accuser Summer Zervos will have her day in court. The judge, citing Clinton v. Jones, says "no one is above the law." Zervos is suing Trump for defamation https://t.co/sqDMBsnRmg
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 20, 2018
As Bloomberg reports, “The decision may also complicate Trump’s effort to dismiss allegations from various women about his behavior.”
And that brings us to the latest on the Stormy Daniels front. The Wall Street Journal and NBC News report that Daniels took a polygraph test that proves she was being truthful about having unprotected sex with Trump back in 2006.
WSJ appears to have the contents of the polygraph test Stormy Daniels took in 2011. "CONCLUSION: In the opinion of this examiner Ms. Clifford is truthful about having unprotected vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump in July 2006." https://t.co/uigZoLIteR pic.twitter.com/iFDdJM4zti
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 20, 2018
Stephanie Clifford’s interview with 60 Minutes airs this Sunday.