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Ex-Playboy Model Karen McDougal Sues to Break Silence on Trump
New York Times ^ | 03/20/2018 | By JIM RUTENBERG

Posted on 03/20/2018 12:08:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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 President 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.”

In an email to The New York Times, her new lawyer, Peter K. Stris, accused A.M.I. of “a multifaceted effort to silence Karen McDougal.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affair; fakenews; karenmcdougal; lawsuit; notachristian; notfakenews; playboy; prostitution; stephanieclifford; stormydaniels; trump; trumplovesplaymates
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(Read the complaint.)

1 posted on 03/20/2018 12:08:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Guess there’s more money in it that way.


2 posted on 03/20/2018 12:09:26 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

What’s there to know? Just stick it in the hole and wiggle it.


3 posted on 03/20/2018 12:10:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She looks nuts


4 posted on 03/20/2018 12:10:50 PM PDT by albie
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To: SeekAndFind

Once you cash the check, you can’t just give it back and resell to the highest bidder. Or, at least that’s the way it should be. Maybe its different when a leftist judge decides the “public interest” is at stake.


5 posted on 03/20/2018 12:10:57 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Moral: When dealing with a prostitute, settle on the price BEFOREHAND.


6 posted on 03/20/2018 12:11:15 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like an episode of Suits.


7 posted on 03/20/2018 12:11:15 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Sorry, honey, you cashed the check. Doesn’t matter how much Soros money you get now to try to undo that. Nothing but respect for Trump if he really did nail her during her Playboy days. Sad that she’s trying to stay relevant this way now that her looks are starting to go.


8 posted on 03/20/2018 12:11:20 PM PDT by jyo19
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I have nuts for her.


9 posted on 03/20/2018 12:11:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SeekAndFind

so now every man old enough to remember what she looked like back then is now saluting in admiration

these guys are terrible at doing hit jobs, absolutely terrible


10 posted on 03/20/2018 12:12:14 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

What is the whole point, was there a rape or sexual assault committed, if not who cares.


11 posted on 03/20/2018 12:12:48 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s the beef? Trump was a rich successful playboy, that’s no secret. Besides, she is hot!


12 posted on 03/20/2018 12:13:28 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: albie
She looks nuts

She's a porno-whore. She IS nuts.

13 posted on 03/20/2018 12:13:32 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s give POTUS credit for taste.


14 posted on 03/20/2018 12:13:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

By the way, this is behind a NYT paywall. I’m surprised—you’d think they’d make exceptions for anti-Trump propaganda!


15 posted on 03/20/2018 12:13:39 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Never, ever trust a whore’s promise.


16 posted on 03/20/2018 12:14:16 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If I had to guess, I’d say she sold it to people who later figured out it was a bunch of lies. So they decided not to publish, because they didn’t want to be sued.

They bought a worthless pack of lies.
She cashed the check.

Game over.


17 posted on 03/20/2018 12:14:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Racism against Whites is a real thing. Let's stop pretending it isn't.)
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To: albie

She looks nuts

Did you mean ‘likes’?


18 posted on 03/20/2018 12:14:48 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Fido969

RE: Moral: When dealing with a prostitute, settle on the price BEFOREHAND.

NOPE, the moral still is — DO NOT VIOLATE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.


19 posted on 03/20/2018 12:14:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Not guilty!


20 posted on 03/20/2018 12:15:26 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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