Avenatti now representing 3 women who claim to have been paid hush money by Trump
By LOUIS NELSON
07/27/2018 07:26 AM EDT
Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three additional women who claim to have had affairs with Trump that they were paid to stay silent about.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients at a forum in West Hollywood, California, but declined to name them. He said he had evidence of the three women’s respective affairs with the president but was “not at liberty to share†it. All three women, he said, were paid “hush money†before the 2016 election.
Avenatti emerged months ago as a prominent figure in the president’s legal battles, representing Daniels in her legal quest to be freed from a nondisclosure agreement related to a one-night affair she claims to have had with the president. She is also suing the president for defamation over a post to his Twitter account in which he dismissed Daniels’ account of an unknown man approaching her and warning her to “leave Trump alone†as a “total con job.â€
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