Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes: Porn star set for tell-all CBS interview after ‘affair’ with Donald Trump

Robin de Peyer25 March 2018

Porn star Stormy Daniels is set for a tell-all TV appearance after claiming she had an affair with Donald Trump.

The 39-year-old, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has alleged she had an affair with the now-US President starting in 2006.

Mr Trump denies the allegations, and his lawyers are suing Ms Daniels for up to $20 million for allegedly violating a nondisclosure agreement.

But Ms Daniels is set to go public with details of the alleged affair in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes news show on Sunday night.

Speaking ahead of the appearance, Ms Daniels said her work in the porn industry meant she was well-equipped to deal with the attention the interview will garner.

“Being in the adult industry, I’ve developed a thick skin and maybe a little bit of a dark sense of humour,” she told The Washington Post. “But nothing could truly prepare someone for this.”

The alleged affair started in 2006, just a year after Donald and Melania Trump were married
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She added: "I didn’t do this to get any sort of approval from anyone or recognition.

"I simply wanted to tell my personal truth and defend myself."

Mr Trump married his current wife, Melania, in 2005, a year before the alleged affair began. She gave birth to their son Barron in 2006.

Melania Trump married Donald in 2005
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Ms Daniels is seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election so she can discuss her alleged relationship with Mr Trump. Her lawyers claim Mr Trump did not sign the agreement, meaning it is null and void.

Ms Daniels has claimed she he was invited into Mr Trump’s hotel room at a charity golf tournament in Nevada in 2006. He was wearing “pyjama pants” and watching a documentary about sharks on television when she arrived, Ms Daniels claims. She says the pair had sex in the room – claims Mr Trump’s lawyer has said he “vehemently denies”.

Tell-all interview: Stormy Daniels with with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes
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Her allegations surfaced in January, when InTouch magazine published an interview with her from 2011.

In February, it emerged that Mr Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, set up a private company that made a $130,000 (£94,000) payment to Ms Daniels in October 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.

Last week, a former Playboy model detailed her alleged affair with Donald Trump.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal (pictured in 2004) has revealed her alleged affair with Donald Trump
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Karen McDougal claimed the affair began in June 2006. Ms McDougal's eight-page, handwritten account was discovered by the New Yorker magazine.

The former model confirmed that the handwriting was hers, but said she was constrained in what else she could say publicly about Mr Trump because she had signed a confidentiality agreement.

The story said Ms McDougal was paid $150,000 (£107,000) during the 2016 presidential campaign for the rights to her account of an affair with any "then-married man" by the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer, which never ran it.

The White House said Mr Trump denies having an affair with Ms McDougal.

Just before Election Day, The Wall Street Journal reported the tabloid, whose publisher, David Pecker, is a longtime friend of Mr Trump's, had paid for Ms McDougal's story but was not printing it, a tabloid industry practice known as "catch and kill".

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