Former porn star Stormy Daniels offers to repay £93,000 so she can discuss alleged affair with Donald Trump

Stormy Daniels claimed she had a sexual relationship with Mr Trump, which he has strongly denied
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Martin Coulter12 March 2018

An adult film actress who claims she had sex with US President Donald Trump has offered to return the £93,000 ($130,000) she was paid for agreeing not to discuss their alleged relationship.

An attorney for Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sent a letter to Trump's lawyer on Monday saying she would wire the money to Trump if she could speak openly about their relationship.

The letter was sent by Ms Clifford's lawyer to Mr Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen and his attorney, Lawrence Rosen.

The letter said that if the offer was accepted, the non-disclosure agreement would be "deemed null and void".

Donald Trump has denied the affair took place

Ms Clifford's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said Trump and Cohen should accept the proposal and allow Clifford to tell her side of the story.

The Wall Street Journal reported in January that Mr Cohen had arranged the payment to Ms Clifford in October 2016 to keep her from publicly discussing the alleged sexual encounter during the presidential campaign.

A week later, In Touch magazine published a 2011 interview with Ms Clifford in which she claimed she and Mr Trump had a sexual encounter after meeting at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, a year after the billionaire businessman’s marriage to his third wife, Melania.

At the end of January, Ms Daniels said in a statement that the alleged affair never occurred.

But in a TV appearance the same day, she appeared to disown the statement, saying she didn't know where it came from and the signature didn't look like hers.

Additional reporting by the Press Association

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