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The President and his alleged former “playmate”
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It’s all Hef’s fault
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The former Playboy model reported to have had an affair with Donald Trump a decade ago, has apparently reached a deal with the owner of The National Enquirer that allows her to discuss the reports of the affair, her and her attorney announced on Wednesday.

 

The National Enquirer’s owner paid the model for the rights to her story of the alleged affair but then published nothing.

 

The model, now 47 and Playboy’s Playmate of the Year in 1998, last month sued American Media Inc., or AMI, the Enquirer’s parent company, for the right to speak publicly about the case — even though the company paid her $150,000 to turn over all rights to her story in 2016.

 

Her attorney has confirmed that under the terms of the settlement she can keep the $150,000.00 payment to her from American Media, while the publisher retains rights to up to $75,000 of any future profits from her story and the rights to any photographs of her already in its possession.

 

Her attorney said that the “…lawsuit (was) not about the relationship.  It’s about the cover-up.”

 

The former model said the settlement “frees me from this contract that I was misled into signing nearly two years ago.”

 

“My goal from the beginning was to restore my rights and not to achieve any financial gain, and this settlement does exactly that,” she said.

 

The purported Trump “playmate”
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The New York Times quoted the former Playmate as saying yesterday that – at least for now– she has no plans to sell her story to a new buyer.

 

Last month her attorney told NBC News that Trump and the former model had a 10 months long affair that ended in April 2007 and while Trump was married to his current wife, Melania.

 

“It was a romantic relationship,” her attorney said. “They were together very often.”

 

President Trump, on the other hand, has denied that he had an affair with the former Playmate.

 

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President Trump, on the other hand, has denied that he had an affair with McDougal.

 

American Media also confirmed the details of the settlement, saying it “is pleased that we reached an amicable resolution … that provides both sides what they wanted …”

 

American Media’s chief executive, David Pecker, has had a long and friendly relationship with now President Trump.

 

American Media is also reported to have paid $30,000 to a former doorman at one of Trump’s New York buildings for the rights to what he knows about Trump’s activities — but then never publishing a story.

 

It’s a tactic known as “catch and kill” in the tabloid news world.

 

According to model’s lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the 2016 agreement put her in an impossible position.

 

According to the agreement, which was attached as an exhibit to the lawsuit, the deal barred her from discussing “any romantic, personal and/or physical relationship the former model has ever had with any then-married man.”

 

Related: Three women with legal actions against Trump. Who poses the greatest danger?

 

The model alleged that the agreement was void because American Media fraudulently denied her crucial information about its “essential terms,” which she alleged were the equivalent of an illegal corporate campaign contribution.

Since then, however, the model became the subject of federal complaints against American Media and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, as well as the target of a request by BuzzFeed to preserve all documents related to a defamation lawsuit filed against it by Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney.

 

Cohen has since dropped his lawsuit against BuzzFeed.

Source: Ex-Playmate reaches deal allowing her to speak about alleged affair with Trump

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