Ex-Playboy Model Sues to Break Silence on Trump

[DonViejo]

Source: The New York Times



By JIM RUTENBERG MARCH 20, 2018


Karen McDougal in 2010. Ms. McDougal, a former Playboy model, claims she had an affair with Donald J. Trump. Credit Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images, for Playboy

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, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies’ efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships.

The model, Karen McDougal, is suing the company that owns The National Enquirer, American Media Inc., which paid her $150,000 and whose chief executive is a friend of Mr. Trump’s. The other woman, the adult entertainment star Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to stay quiet by the president’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. She filed suit earlier this month.

Both women, who argue that their contracts are invalid, are trying to get around clauses requiring them to resolve disputes in secretive arbitration proceedings rather than in open court. Mr. Trump has denied the affairs.

Ms. McDougal, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Mr. Cohen was secretly involved in her talks with A.M.I., and that the media company and her lawyer at the time misled her about the deal. She also asserts that after she spoke with The New Yorker last month after it obtained notes she kept on Mr. Trump, A.M.I. warned that “any further disclosures would breach Karen’s contract” and “cause considerable monetary damages.”



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[hlthe2b]

1. Open the flood gates. n/t

[SonofDonald]

2. Kinda looks like Hope Hicks doesn't she? N/T

[MontanaMama]

5. Speaking of...

have we heard anything about Hope lately? Has she officially left her position at the WH?

[Mendocino]

15. I've never seen a photo

of them together...hmmm?

[edbermac]

3. Damn! She slept with Donald the Hutt??

One of my faves. I can never look at her centerfold again.

[bdamomma]

4. yes, let those women

tell their true stories. about what we have squatting in the WH. And if they are threatened his a$$ needs to be locked up.

[IronLionZion]

6. Bring it! Let all of the women come forward

while the evangelical leaders continue to make excuses for it. Maybe at least some of the really conservative voters may be disgusted enough with the GOP to punish them in the election.

[duforsure]

7. One of many to come out

And you can bet he's had some of them have abortions by threats, or payoffs.

[Dave Starsky]

10. Well, we know he insists on bareback.

That was one of the Stormy revelations.

So yes, that guy has probably terminated more pregnancies than all of the nation's cigarette manufacturers combined.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I will try to find some sympathy for the beauty queen personality

but it is difficult.

[2left4u]

9. I don't get it

I'm not buying all this...I truly believe the the master manipulator Trump is the one leaking all this to the media to distract us.

My reasoning is simple....not going to hurt his base..his rapey misogynist base probably think its cool and are slapping each other on the back congratulating Trump on being such a ladies man.
Meanwhile on planet earth, the MSM starts their endless coverage (of these dare I say "ladies&quot bringing fame and fortune to the women, notoriety to Mr. Small Hands with big time insecurities while he gets ready to pull the rug out from under us while we watch the shiny thing.

I'm not buying this..this sounds like some Trump PR bs to throw us off while he gets ready to do something we should have been paying attention to.

[Egnever]

11. Eww

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[Blue_Tires]

12. How does such a completely ugly person like Trump consistently pull such beautiful women??

[workinclasszero]

13. Money is a hell of an aphrodisiac they say

So saith the Bard even lol

[yallerdawg]

14. Two women arguably in 'the sex industry' have credible claims?

That 'dossier' and the Russian blackmail is suddenly looking a lot more credible.

[sarcasmo]

16. Add Mcdougal and Stormy to the other 18 or 19. Trump will wind up near Cosby numbers.