PORN star Stormy Daniels believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with US President Donald Trump.
Trump’s personal lawyer has acknowledged paying Daniels $130,000 just before America’s presidential election day.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, believes that Mr Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen invalidated a non-disclosure agreement after two news stories were published on Tuesday.
In one, Cohen told The New York Times that he made the six-figure payment with his personal funds, and another in the Daily Beast, which reported that Cohen was shopping a book proposal that would touch on Daniels’s story, said her manager, Gina Rodriguez.
“Everything is off now, and Stormy is going to tell her story,” Rodriguez said.
Daniels first detailed her account of an alleged extramarital affair with Trump in 2011, when the celebrity website The Dirty published it but then removed the material under the threat of a lawsuit, according to the site’s founder, Nik Richie.
In January, The Wall Street Journal reported that a limited liability company in Delaware formed by Cohen made the six-figure payment to Daniels to keep her from discussing the affair during the presidential campaign. Cohen said the payment was made with his own money, and that “neither the Trump Organisation nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly.”
A White House spokeswoman referred all questions about the payment to Cohen.
At issue is what transpired inside a Nevada, hotel room in 2006 between the actress and Trump the year after his marriage to Melania.
A lawyer for Daniels, Keith Davidson, has previously distributed statements on Daniels’s behalf denying there was any affair.
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