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Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said in media interviews that she met Trump at a charity golf tournament in July 2006. | |
She alleged the pair had sex once in his hotel room at Lake Tahoe, a resort area between California and Nevada. Trump's wife at the time, Melania Trump, was not at the tournament and had just given birth. | |
In 2016, days before the US presidential election, Daniels said Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 (£104,500) in "hush money" to keep her quiet about the affair. | |
Daniels said she took it because she was concerned for the safety of her family because she was "legally and physically threatened to stay silent". | |
In 2011, shortly after she agreed to give an interview to In Touch magazine about the alleged affair, she said an unknown man had approached her and her infant daughter in a Las Vegas car park and told her to "leave Trump alone". | |
In 2018, she gave an interview to CBS. Before it was aired, a shell company linked to Cohen threatened Daniels with a $20m lawsuit, arguing she had broken their non-disclosure deal (NDA), or "hush agreement". | |
Since the allegations surfaced in 2018, the former president has denied any sexual involvement with Daniels. | |
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