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| Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor who claims she had sex with Donald Trump, has been arrested at a strip club in Ohio for letting patrons touch her while on stage in violation of state law, her lawyer has said. | |
| Michael Avenatti said in a tweet the charge was “politically motivated” and “reeks of desperation”, suggesting that the arrest was a preplanned sting operation. “We will fight all bogus charges,” he said. | |
| Just rcvd word that my client @StormyDaniels was arrested in Columbus Ohio whole performing the same act she has performed across the nation at nearly a hundred strip clubs. This was a setup & politically motivated. It reeks of desperation. We will fight all bogus charges. #Basta | Just rcvd word that my client @StormyDaniels was arrested in Columbus Ohio whole performing the same act she has performed across the nation at nearly a hundred strip clubs. This was a setup & politically motivated. It reeks of desperation. We will fight all bogus charges. #Basta |
| Daniels was performing at Sirens strip club in Columbus when she was touched in a “non-sexual” way, according to Avenatti. | |
| “She was arrested for allegedly allowing a customer to touch her while on stage in a non-sexual manner,” he said. “Are you kidding me? They are devoting law enforcement resources to sting operations for this? There has to be higher priorities.” | |
| After the performance of her “Make America Horny Again” show, Daniels was arrested by undercover officers Avenatti said in an interview with the Washington Post. | |
| An Ohio law known as the Community Defense Act prohibits anyone who is not a family member from touching a nude or semi-nude dancer. Avenatti did not deny that Daniels had allowed herself to be touched. It is not clear if the law is one that is regularly enforced. | |
| Daniels was in police custody early on Thursday and was expected to face a misdemeanour charge, according to Avenatti, who has been a familiar face on US cable TV since becoming Daniels’ attorney. He railed at what he alleged was a “setup” and claimed Daniels performed the same act she had performed at nearly 100 strip clubs across the US. | |
| “This was a complete setup,” he said. “It’s absurd that law enforcement resources are being spent to conduct a sting operation related to customers touching performers in a strip club in a non-sexual manner.” | |
| He tweeted: “We expect her to be released on bail shortly. We also expect that she will be charged with a misdemeanor for allowing ‘touching’. We will vehemently contest all charges.” | |
| A person who answered the phone at the strip club declined to comment. | A person who answered the phone at the strip club declined to comment. |
| A Columbus police spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment from the Associated Press. | |
| Columbus police reportedly told CBS News early on Thursday that they were not aware of Daniels being arrested and that she was not being held by the Franklin County sheriff’s department. | |
| Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has claimed she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006, when he was married. Trump has denied any sexual relationship with Daniels. | |
| Trump longtime attorney and fixer Michael Cohen facilitated a $130,000 payment to Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election to stop her going public about the alleged affair, for which he was reimbursed by Trump. | |
| Trump said such agreements were “very common among celebrities and people of wealth”. | |
| “In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in arbitration for damages against Ms Clifford (Daniels),” he tweeted. “The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair.” | |
| Daniels has also claimed that a Trump associate threatened violence against her and her daughter in a clandestine meeting that same year. | |
| She is suing Trump and Cohen and seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed before the 2016 election. | |
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