Posted on 04/18/2018 3:08:22 PM PDT by Simon Green
The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump, her lawyer said.
The settlement agreement, reached Wednesday, ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and protects the president from being drawn into a legal case involving efforts to buy the silence of women who had stories to tell about him during the 2016 campaign.
He still faces another lawsuit, from the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford, who is suing to get out of a deal that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, arranged in 2016 for her silence about an alleged affair.
In August 2016 American Media, which owns The National Enquirer, acquired the rights to Ms. McDougal’s story about Mr. Trump — which it never ran — in return for $150,000 and commitments to use its magazines to promote her current career as a fitness specialist.
Under the terms of Wednesday’s settlement, American Media has the right to up to $75,000 of any future profits from her story about the alleged affair, which Mr. Trump denies. According to her lawyer, Peter K. Stris, Ms. McDougal can keep the $150,000 payment and the publisher will retain the rights to photographs of her that it already has. American Media said that it also maintained the right to publish columns about Ms. McDougal.
“It’s a total win,” Mr. Stris said in an interview. “We got everything we were fighting for — she got out of the contract, gets the life rights back and owes A.M.I. nothing more.”
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Trump’s approval rating will go up another 3 - 5 % !
Melanie has sued before and won... slander i think.. she is so regal and she didn’t ask for all the deal they are throwing at her marriage.. the idiot feminists need to be slandered/sued... there will be more as long as there is money to be had.. and i dont believe them.. nor do I care what he did.. but his family is being raked over the coals.. the deep state is out for blood.
feh...
So he had consensual sex with her and the gorgeous Playboy model kept going back for more? Oh yeah, this story TOTALLY hurts Trump. Sure it does ;)
Well he’s on his third wife and cheated on the first two. I certainly have no trouble believing it. I just don’t care.
CNN is waiting with a story that he slept with Playboy twins. Oh the outrage!
She’s probably being paid a few million in dark money to say all this crap.
Who cares. Are the libs jealous that Trump was bopping some real women? I guess if he had some LBGT affairs all would be good?
Ted Kennedy would have drowned her.
She’s actually a republican and voted for Trump. Karen is a beautiful woman but is as transparent as glass. All she’s after now is the same thing she was likely after when going after Trump and the same thing she was after the first time she showed a 60+year-old (back then) Hugh Hefner her tits. $$$$$$
Liberals are trying to turn this into a Campaign Issue.
The usual response to any Triggered Liberal should be, unlike Ted Kennedy he didn’t Drown them, and unlike Bill Clinton he didn’t Rape them.
Let them chew on that.
I doubt they even voted too busy lying in bed.
“the ballot choices were not Jesus or Satan; they were Trump or Satan.”
Oh, that’s *good*. Saving for later use.
This ho looks better maintained than the Stormy Daniels slut. Better maintained plus looked better back in the day when The Donald was pawing her.
I feel bad for Melania. These money grubbing sluts are upsetting her and she is worried how it hurts Barron at school with teasing and such. Stay strong Melania!
These sluts have all kinds of money for lawyers. Dark money is right. They are being paid much more than their lawyers fees.
Nobody cares.
Well at least she is better looking than Stormy Daniels
Nice Christian values on display here
Melania knows what she married
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