Adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, speaks to the media with attorney Michael Avenatti in New York City, New York, US (Image: Reuters)
Adult film star Stormy Daniels ordered to pay $121k in legal fees to former US President Donald Trump for defamation lawsuit following Trump’s indictment in hush money case
In another case, adult film star Stormy Daniels was ordered to pay more than $121,000 for former US President Donald Trump’s legal fees. Daniels was ordered by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on the same day the former president was indicted in the hush money payment case.
According to a report in news outlets CBS, counsel for Harder LLP and Dhillon Law Group. The adult film star sued Trump for defamation after the former tweeted about him with a photo of Daniels’ ex-husband, along with a sketch of an adult film star commissioned by an unidentified person. had claimed that he had threatened her and her daughter.
She claimed that after a 2011 interview with In Touch Magazine, where she claimed she had an affair with Trump in 2006, an unnamed man approached her and began threatening her. The man reportedly said: “Leave Trump alone. Forget the story… She’s a beautiful little girl. It would be a shame if anything happened to her mother.”
The man was allegedly referring to his daughter.
Trump later accused Daniels of lying and said the person who threatened him was “a nobody”. He said Daniels’ attempt to sue him was a “total fraud”.
The judge dismissed the case and in 2018 asked Daniels to pay Trump’s legal fees but later argued that the fees were too high. The court, however, found her request “unreasonable” and not “well-founded”.
The Ninth Circuit ruled that the fees sought by Trump were “reasonable”.
The decision came hours after Trump appeared in a New York City courtroom in a separate criminal case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The former president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The case claims Trump falsified business records when reimbursing his former attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen for payments Daniels made during the 2016 campaign.
According to CBS, New York classifies falsifying business records a misdemeanor, but the charges can be upgraded to a low-level felony if prosecutors can show that the defendant committed or intended to conceal another crime. crime has been committed.
The former president was charged with a felony on the grounds that the conduct was intended to aid the commission of another crime, which in this case was in violation of election laws.
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