Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued Donald Trump on Tuesday, alleging that he never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer had arranged with her, reports NBC News. The civil suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. It alleges that her agreement to not disclose her “intimate” relationship with Trump is invalid because though both Daniels and Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen signed it, Trump never did. Stormy Daniels, which is her professional name and whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, signed the agreement and a side letter agreement using her professional name on Oct. 28, 2016, right before the 2016 presidential election. Cohen also signed that day. According to NBC, the “hush agreement,” as it’s called in the suit, refers to Trump throughout as David Dennison, and Clifford as Peggy Peterson. Then in the side letter agreement, the true identity of DD is blacked out, but Clifford’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, says the individual is Trump. On each document, there is a place for “DD” to sign, but his signature does not appear. The hush agreement directed that $130,000 to be paid into the trust account of Clifford’s then-attorney, and in return, she would not disclose any confidential information about Trump or his sexual partners to anyone beyond a short list of people she had already told. She was also not to share any photos or texts from Trump. The suit alleges that Cohen has tried to keep Clifford from talking about the relationship as recently as Feb. 27, 2018.
Earlier today, we filed this complaint seeking a ct order voiding the alleged “hush” agreement between our client S. Clifford aka Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump. https://t.co/upa9u10MqR
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) March 7, 2018
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