

While Trump has denied having sex with Daniels and has contended the payment had nothing whatsoever to do with the election that he won, prosecutors persuaded a grand jury to charge that his method of repaying Cohen – in $35,000 monthly increments – was illegal, after an investigation aimed at determining whether he violated state campaign finance laws or falsified business records. Trump’s then lawyer, Michael Cohen, made the payment. Yet as Trump ran successfully for president in 2016, his relationship with Daniels evolved drastically.ĭaniels was negotiating a deal to go on television during the presidential campaign and discuss the purported sexual encounter with Trump when she received what prosecutors say was a $130,000 payment to hush up. She has claimed Trump had a bodyguard invite her to dinner, that they later had sex in his hotel room despite his being married to eventual first lady Melania Trump, and that they stayed in touch for a while because he offered her a role on his reality show, The Apprentice.

The self-described “little girl back in Baton Rouge, just trying to survive” later met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California, where she was hired to greet competitors between tees. And she eventually began appearing in and directing pornographic films, using a pseudonym drawn from the name Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx gave to his daughter – Storm – and her preference for Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
