Posted on 11/10/2023 9:42:05 PM PST by lightman
Stephanie Clifford - better known to the world as Stormy Daniels - was the headliner at Savannah’s club in Harrisburg Friday night.
Until she wasn’t.
The former adult film star, currently at the center of the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump over hush money payments designed to buy her silence about a one-night stand with the then-Republican candidate during the 2016 presidential race, never showed Friday.
And all of a sudden a night of bawdy burlesque turned into a mystery.
David Wendell, who books Clifford’s appearances at adult clubs like Savannah’s through his business, Centerfold Features, said his client was supposed to drive to Harrisburg Friday after doing a comedy show in New York City Thursday night.
“She’d been there (Savannah’s) before in years past, and she was excited to go,” Wendell said, who last spoke with Clifford to confirm plans on Monday.
But Wendell said he was never able to make contact with Clifford Friday, something that is very out of character for a woman he described as a show business professional.
“Things happen, like a flight gets delayed or she gets sick. But it’s never been a no-call, no-show type of thing like it is tonight,” the manager said. “So I really don’t know what’s going on.
“I checked her social media. She hasn’t been on it for the past day. I called the hotel (in Harrisburg), and I’m like: ‘Hey, can you connect me to her room?’ And they were like: ‘Well they haven’t checked in.... Hopefully, nothing happened, but I don’t know. As of right now, I don’t know what’s going on.”
Clifford had appeared in about 150 adult films and was considered among that niche industry’s biggest stars when the then-27-year-old met Trump at the American Century Championship in 2006, held at Edgewood Tahoe golf course in Nevada.
Clifford has said they had consensual sex after Trump tried to interest her in appearing on his reality television franchise, “The Apprentice.”
Ten years later, in the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump attorney Michael Cohen arranged a payment of $130,000 as part of a negotiated agreement to keep Clifford from talking about her sexual encounter with Trump.
Clifford had been in talks to go on “Good Morning America” that fall, and, according to The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story about the hush money payment in January 2018, after the payment she cut off contact with the network without telling her story.
This April, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying Trump Organization business records related to his reimbursements of Cohen for payments made to Clifford. The case is tentatively scheduled to go to trial in New York state court in March.
At Savannah’s Friday night, owner Phil Dobson instructed his staff to make full refunds to the roughly 300 patrons who’d bought tickets for the exclusive Stormy Daniels show - essentially meaning they were now going to get a night at the strip club without the standard $10 cover.
At least one round of free shots was also poured.
“We’re going to take care of the people that came,” Dobson said. “We don’t want to upset people. We want to provide something for them for their time, which we will do.”
He was just as concerned for his missing star.
“She’s very nice. She’s very friendly. And she’s very professional, so this is completely out of her character,” Dobson said. “We’ll do the best we can to keep our customers happy and, hopefully, we’ll find out what happened with Stormy... That may be the story.”
“...designed to buy her silence about a one-night stand with the then-Republican candidate during the 2016 presidential race, never showed Friday.”
A very misleading sentence, in fact, a lie.
She has a habit of breaking contracts.
No surprise there.
This must be a first for her.
Yep-
Iz she daid?
“Show business professional”
Hmmm...wondering if somebody was worried that Stormy would spill the beans about being put up to lying about Trump.
They never where. She is swanky and Trumpis a germafobe.
Hopefully she isn't with Jimmy Hoffa.
Likely at FCI Terminal Island on conjugal visit with M. Avenatti.
Although I’ve never been to one I’d wager the clothes on my back that one will not find any gentlemen at a “gentleman’s club”
The reporter must have missed the part where she said it never happened? The dinosaur press is so repetitive.
Probably had her hands full.
There must be some mighty homely girls in the normal crew if Stormy is the main attraction.
Sad.
IF, and I seriously doubt it happened, President Trump paid her to keep her from publicly accusing him of such an act, how is that against the law?
Don’t our DC POLITICIANS have a ‘fund’ that pays out money those who threaten our politicians with accusations of the exact same thing ? A fund that WE the taxpayers pay for ?
President Trump having a one night stand with a porno star who was hired to help bring in contestants for a golf match is about as likely as Howard Hughes going to a porno theater and licking the floor.
Well, it is Harrisburg…
“Hopefully nothing happened…”
No, no, no, let’s hope “something”happened and we hopefully never hear about the scumbag again.
One of the attendees said he was disappointed when she didn’t come
AND STILL DOES
I want to know what really happened in the Death of the Chef.
She’s very nice. She’s very friendly.
She’s so past her due date.
Trump is a self admitted germ-o-phobe.
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